Kotaku: Team Fortress

Some Asshole Stole a Team Fortress 2 Figure From Toy Fair

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:30:00 EST

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So you know how there were images of Team Fortress 2 action figures from last weekend's Toy Fair in New York? There weren't any pics of the Demoman. Even though he was there. More »

Valve Trolls Valentine's Day With $100 Team Fortress 2 DLC

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:40:00 EST

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Team Fortress 2 developers Valve have put together "the most accurate simulation of an actual Valentine's Day gift ever made available to the public", and today made it available as an in-game item to owners of the multiplayer shooter. More »

Team Fortress 2 Channels LL Cool J (What?)

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST

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There's a new item in Team Fortress 2 that the Scout can employ which plays music. Sounds pretty trivial, but man, you've got to read Valve's description of the item. More »

TF2's Meet the Pyro is Coming. In 2012.

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:00:00 EST

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Team Fortress 2 is a pretty great game, but the best thing about it are Valve's marketing shorts, which introduce each character with the kind of animated quality you'd expect from a Pixar flick. More »

Forget Hats, Team Fortress 2 Now Has Official Wedding Rings

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:00:00 EST

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Should you ever feel the need to propose to that special someone in the middle of a game of Team Fortress 2, you can now do just that, after developers Valve added an official wedding ring to the game. More »

Team Fortress 2's Christmas Updates Begin

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:30:00 EST

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I celebrate Australian Christmas with cold beer and barbecued meat. Valve, well, Valve celebrate it a little differently. In 2010 they took Team Fortress 2 all medieval, and in 2011, they're sending it into space. More »

This Guy Built a Real Team Fortress 2 Gun

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:00:00 EST

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Prop builder Zander Brandt, whose awesome Mass Effect rifle we've featured previously, has for his next project done something a little faster, a little more obnoxious. More »

Who Doesn't Want To Play Team Fortress 2 with a Turkey Head?

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:30:00 EST

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In an old Mr. Bean episode titled "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean", the titular hero gets his head lodged in a turkey. It's a classic, and what inspired this Team Fortress 2 workshop creation. More »

Dark Horse and Valve's Collaborative Comic Collection Hits Later This Month

Brian Crecente — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:30:00 EDT

Don't you go forgetting that Valve Presents: The Sacrifice And Other Steam-Powered Stories goes on sale later this month. More »

Let Team Fortress 2 Tell you a Ghost Story

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:30:00 EDT

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Team Fortress 2 is getting some updates for Halloween: Objects, items, hats, you know the deal. It's also, though, got something a little more exciting: a new Team Fortress 2 comic. More »

It's Back! Scream Fortress Returns for a Third Halloween

Owen Good — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:30:00 EDT

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The Horseless Headless Horsemann and Mann Manor will return for Team Fortress 2's annual "Scream Fortress" Halloween event. Triple H—the game's first boss—and the Manor, a special map, were introduced in last year's event. Valve says the full update will arrive sometime next week. [Team Fortress 2 Blog] More »

Some of Team Fortress 2's Coolest Weapons Have Been Made by You

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:00:00 EDT

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Well, not you specifically, "you" as in "people who don't work for Valve". More »

Mommy, Where do Team Fortress 2 Hats Come From?

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:30:00 EDT

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Team Fortress 2 used to be about guns. Now it's all about hats. Fancy, ridiculous, elaborate hats. Ever wonder how those hats are made? More »

Here's a Team Fortress 2 Map That Could Run In Your Browser

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:30:00 EDT

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Developer Brandon Jones has, after some tinkering and hard work, managed to import a map from online shooter Team Fortress 2 into WebGL. It's not playable, but it's there. More »

Team Fortress Demake Is Out, Free

Matthew Buzzi — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:30:00 EDT

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Team Fortress 2 demake, Team Fortress Arcade, which we showed in the past, is released today, free of charge. Game designer Eric Ruth is the creator, so credit him for this good work! Visit Piki Geek for the download. More »

Chinese TF2 Knockoff Drafts Tomb Raider Alum to Vouch for It

Owen Good — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:30:00 EDT

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Ahem. Well, back in July, we were introduced to Final Combat, China's ~~homage to~~ ripoff of Team Fortress 2. The game won't have a western release, but for any Chinese who managed to defeat the Baidu censorship and learn of the game's true origins, we have Troy Horton, formerly of the Tomb Raider series, to vouch for its originality. More »

The TF2 Heavy: Dragon-born

Matthew Buzzi — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:30:00 EDT

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The characters in Team Fortress 2 are anxiously awaiting the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim too, you know. Perhaps with more enthusiasm than any of us, at least according to this well-made fan video. More »

Team Fortress Meets Minecraft Is "Team Fortcraft"

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:00:00 EDT

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The latest entry in the "Minecraft meets" series is this "Team Fortcraft", which is Minecraft meets Team Fortress. More »

This Team Fortress 2-Inspired Animated Short Absolutely Made My Week

Joshua Rivera — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:20:00 EDT

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These TF2 LEGO Figures are so Small! They are Funny to me!

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:30:00 EDT

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It's easy to take a LEGO minifig and paint it to look like something. What's harder is taking a ton of actual LEGO bricks and turning them into the likeness of a range of cartoon video game characters. More »

Valve is Working On a Free-to-Play Game

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:30:00 EDT

The developers of the Half-Life, Portal, and Team Fortress series are currently at work on a free-to-play game, according to Valve's Doug Lombardi. More »

Payday: The Heist Will Bring Team-Based Bank Robbery to the PSN

Drew Cohen — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:20:00 EDT

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Gamers work well in teams. We've slaughtered zombies, repelled rebels, routed RED (or BLU)—all with the help of our friends. Now we get to rob banks. More »

Voting on TF2's "Saxxy" Awards Opens Today

Owen Good — Sat, 21 May 2011 14:20:31 EDT

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This a nominee for "Best Replay" in Team Fortress 2's "Saxxy" Awards, designed to celebrate the game's new replay camera feature. With the entry period closing yesterday, voting has begun on a field of entries numbering "in the tens of thousands," according to Valve. More »

No Game Suffered From "Valve Time" More Than Team Fortress 2

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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You think you've been waiting a long time for a new Half-Life game? You haven't, really. It's "only" been three and a half years. Now, Team Fortress 2, that was a game long in the making. More »

Tron Fortress Transports Badlands Map to the Game Grid [Updated]

Owen Good — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:00:00 EST

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Last month, Kotaku reader chandan1014 introduced us to his Tron-themed skins for all nine classes in Team Fortress 2. Now a friend of his has completely redone the game's "Badlands" map in a Tron theme. More »

Holy Crap, Weta Built A Real Team Fortress 2 Sentry Gun

Luke Plunkett — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

WETA, the special effects team behind the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and District 9, have given Team Fortress 2 developers Valve a very special gift: a sentry gun. That works. More »

All Weekend, Valve's Games Will Be Crazy Cheap

Luke Plunkett — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:30:00 EDT

Valve are saying "to hell with third party Steam sales" this weekend, as their digital download store plays host to an in-house firesale, with Half-Life, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress products all going for a song. More »

Valve Complete Pack Contains Left 4 Dead, Everything Else

Mike Fahey — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:20:00 EST

With the release of Left 4 Dead just around the corner, now would be an excellent to to reacquaint yourself with some of the wonderful games Valve has released in the past. To help you in that endeavor, Valve has released the Valve Complete Pack on Steam, a compilation of everything they've released since the dawn of time. That includes Half-Life in all its many forms, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2 and Classic, Portal, and hell, they've even got Peggle Extreme in there for good measure. More »

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

Maggie Greene — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:30:03 EST

An update for Team Fortress 2 was released on Thursday; the updates will be applied automatically. Additions such as adding a 'custom' tab to the server browser and fixing some class balancing issues are included, but there is a lengthy list of other updates, additions, and fixes over at the Steam website. More »

Frankenreview, Team Fortress 2 (PC)

Mark Wilson — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:00:58 EDT

The Orange Box must be one of the best values in AAA gaming of all time. But despite the ingenuity of Portal and the anticipation of Half-Life Episode 2, there's one game that's been glove handled with such immense amounts of creativity and love that it can actually overshadow an immensely powerful showing from Valve: Team Fortress 2. More »

What Makes a Gaming Landmark?

Maggie Greene — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:30:22 EDT

Jonathan Blow (of Braid fame) has an insightful response to Stephen Totilo's comments lamenting the lack of gaming landmarks: the status of 'landmark' shouldn't be tied to representations of fantastical architecture or a particular visual look, rather to what happens in those spaces. He talks about landmarks of 'conceptual space': I started having bad flashbacks to slogging through Benedict Anderson's classic Imagined Communities at this point, but Blow has some interesting points and examples (he points to Counter-strike and Team Fortress maps that may change their look from incarnation to incarnation, but retain a sense of place thanks to the history of gameplay within those spaces, no matter what form their visual trappings take): More »

Valve To Make Big Announcement Tuesday

Mark Wilson — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:20:03 EDT

Valve is such a tease. In their weekly update after revealing some new details on Team Fortress 2, they left this message:

In other TF2 news, stay tuned for a pretty big announcement next week. You're going to want to hold off on planning any vacations until you hear what we've got to say on Tuesday.

Oh really? The Kotaku staff was about to fly to a private, sybaritic island where beautiful native goddesses go without the coconut bras and one rides unicorns to the through waterfalls flowing with unbottled Fuji water. Canceled! We need to hear this announcement. Sure, if Crecente gets there a day early the island will be short a few virgins, but we need to know what all the fuss is about. Exciting new IP? Or overinflated TF2 update? More »

PS3 Owners Will Wait Longer For Half-Life 2 Orange Box

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:00:01 EDT

Remember that nasty rumor that the PLAYSTATION 3 version of Valve's ultimate Half-Life 2 collection would arrive later than the rest? Consider it rumor no more. Gamespot has confirmed with Valve's own Doug Lombardi that the PS3 SKU of The Orange Box will ship "a couple of weeks" after the PC and Xbox 360 versions. As Gamespot points out, retailer Gamestop currently offers up a November 13th release date for the collection that contains Half-Life 2, Team Fortress and Portal. While not solid confirmation, that's over a month after the October 9th ship date for the other versions. More »

Valve Keeps DLC Free

Mike Fahey — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:20:46 EDT

In a world... More »

New Team Fortress Art!

egauger — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:40:59 EDT

Click the image to see full size, hosted here on Joystiq. More »

First Half-Life 2: Episode Two Details

brownlee — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:40:25 EDT

So what's up next for Gordon Freeman? A rabid Half-Life 2 fan over at the Steam forums was kind enough to give us a summary from the preview of Episode Two in the latest issue of PC Gamer. We'd recommend you go buy it, but print's dead. More »