As discussed previously on Kotaku.com, Valve’s Orange Box is 10 years old this month. Half-Life is celebrating by no longer existing, while Team Fortress 2 is leaving “a decade of dustbowls and gravel pits” behind to head for the jungle with new maps, weapons and banjos.
Team Fortress 2 has been out for ten years, and is still around—and very popular—today. In that time you’d think that Valve would have managed to make it prettier, but as this video shows, some of TF2's visuals have actually gone backwards over the last decade.
LMAOBOX is the most prolific Team Fortress 2 cheat program. Or at least, it was.
Meet Xeinok. With 9,400 Steam achievements under his belt, Xeinok is one of the best achievement hunters in the entire world, ranking at number one in the U.S.
Team Fortress 2 has a new sports mode, where two teams run around with a ball trying to score goals. It’s called PASS Time, and “combines TF2’s usual fast-paced bloodsport with the actual fast-paced sports of soccer, hockey and basketball”.
This LEGO version of the Tomislav, which is an upgrade to the Heavy’s minigun, made by ZaziNombies, is not something for a minifigure, but rather an oversized 3-foot-long replica, weighing 10 pounds.
YouTuber Jerma tried to play Team Fortress 2 by using only voice commands. While this might sound comfortable in theory, the end result is a complete disaster.
Joerg Sprave, who has been making amazing rubber-band guns for years now, is to thank for this elastic take on TF2’s “Meet the Heavy”.
It's easy to forget now, but Team Fortress 2 was once as big a punchline among Valve fans as Half-Life 3 is today.
The Scout tries to break through the fourth wall in redditor Karhunperse's Source Filmmaker photoshop, aptly named "4th Wall." It might also be a reference to the thematically similar Saxxy Award-winning short, Animation vs. Animator, mentioned by Karhunperse in the post's comments. Full pic below.
Having been in production for years, James McVinnie's End of the Line short film has now been finished. And it's as good as the trailers had you believe.
Sometimes a small addition to a game can really mix things up, turning it into a completely different experience. In this case, a brilliant, funny experience: Sekti42's Smooth Jazz mod for the Heavy's Minigun in Team Fortress 2 changes all the sound effects of the weapon to various jazzy ones.
I checked my RSS this morning, and saw - because I am still subscribed to the blog's feed - this news piece from Team Fortress 2. It's about the game's big Halloween festivities. And I thought, wow, I can't believe I'm still opening blog posts about Team Fortress 2.
Color changing characters, trading, and a little bit of fighting. That and YouTuber Chasming's take on Team Fortress 2 pretty much sums up the game and all its madness accurately.
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Held around a year ago, Insomnia49 was the biggest-ever LAN tournament for fans of Team Fortress 2. This week, a documentary of the event has been released, and it's great.
A friend of mine sent me a really bizare Sonic fanfic video and I was not prepared for how entertaining it was. Here are the notes I took as I watched it.
Hotline Miami 2 is sure to be one of the most violent we'll play this year, but it's even more violent when recreated in 3D with characters from Team Fortress 2.