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Team Fortress 2
'Not a hoax!'—Valve writers confirm the official Team Fortress 2 comic will continue, after over 7 years on ice
You can't keep a good game down, and the ongoing drama around Team Fortress 2 remains one of the most curious and entertaining rollercoasters there is. First released in 2007, TF2 was an instant hit that found a huge audience, but what has truly distinguished it over the years is just how ma...
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2's player count doubles after fan pressure sees Valve step in with a bot-demolishing banwave and a fir...
Team Fortress 2's bot problem is an ongoing drama in PC gaming land: the issue seemingly went into overdrive when developer Valve stepped back from major work on the game in 2017. To be clear,...
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 plummets to Mostly Negative on Steam as its biggest fans stoke the righteous flames of anti-bot outrage
I wrote yesterday about the #SaveTF2 movement's latest campaign, mobilizing once again to pressure Valve into action against Team Fortress 2's rampant bot problem. The latest operation is a two-pronged approach: an online petition—which has been signed and emailed to Valve over 200,000 ...
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 players gather over 140,000 petition signatures in the latest campaign against the ongoing aimbot menace
17 years after release, Team Fortress 2 still has a devoted fanbase—one that keeps the classic team shooter in the upper echelons of Steam's concurrent player rankings. And today, through an online petition for the #SaveTF2 campaign, over 140,000 members of that fanbase are declaring they&ap...
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2's latest silly business sees the game crashing because it thought players were Gordon Freeman
Team Fortress 2 just received a huge update, upgrading it 64-bit, finally bringing the 17-year-old shooter into the modern age of gaming. But in true TF2 fashion, there was a problem that no one foresaw: the game kept crashing because it thought players were Gordon Freeman from Half-Life... ...
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 voice actors perform 'Sandvich Blues', a sorrowful ode to a lost lunch
Team Fortress 2 was released in 2007 and since then has had a unique afterlife. Partly that's down to the sheer quality of the game which, post-launch tweaks and additions aside, arrived perfectly formed, with an ageless aesthetic and an anarchically funny approach to world-building. Each of...
Team Fortress 2
Yes, Team Fortress 2 players recently did a big trade involving an IRL dog and, no, they're not monsters and it's qui...
You know how sometimes you read an online post, in this case a semi-viral tweet relating to a Team Fortress 2 trade, think "hell no that didn't happen", then read it again? I've seen some...
Half-Life
Data strings in the latest Counter-Strike 2 update hint at two new Valve games, and one of them might just be Half-Li...
Half-Life fan's favourite pastime (aside from actually playing Half-Life games) is latching onto the tiniest hope that a new Half-Life might be just around the corner. I say this as one such e...
Team Fortress 2
Absurdly rare Team Fortress 2 hat called 'The Crone's Dome' sells for a record-setting $18,000 worth of keys because ...
The single most expensive hat trade in Team Fortress 2's history went down this week, with one player exchanging goods worth over 10,000 of the game's crate keys (around $1.80 each) for a...
Team Fortress 2
Fan-made Team Fortress 2 remake using the Source 2 engine shuts down for good after receiving a DMCA notice from Valve
Team Fortress: Source 2, an ambitious fan project aiming to rebuild the venerable Team Fortress 2 in the Source 2 engine, has reached the end of the road. Amper Software, the team behind the project, said on Twitter today that it's been forced to pull the plug after receiving a DMCA takedown...
Half-Life
25 years later, this Half-Life scientist finally bites it as Gabe intended
Half-Life celebrated its 25th anniversary last Sunday, and Valve laid out a buffet of Lambda-shaped treats to mark the occasion. The company added new multiplayer maps to the game, released an hour-long documentary delving into its design, and fixed a few of its most resilient bugs. But there's o...
Half-Life
Half-Life's 25th anniversary celebrations have caused a resonance cascade in its Steam player-count, surging to a new...
Half-Life, the little-known game about a monorail enthusiast who undergoes the most brutal job interview in history, reached its 25th birthday on Sunday. And Valve was in a surprisingly celebratory...
Half-Life
Gabe Newell on making Half-Life's crowbar fun: 'We were just running around like idiots smacking the wall'
To celebrate its 25th birthday, Valve updated Half-Life and gave it away for free. At the same time, it released an hour-long documentary in which the original developers talked about making the influential FPS. In the documentary, Valve's co-founder Gabe Newell explained why game delays are...
Half-Life
Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.'
Famed Nintendo director Shigeru Miyamoto once said, so the story goes, "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." Did he really utter those words? Apparently not. But Valve founder Gabe Newell shares the sentiment: He said so, in very plain terms, in the new Half-Life ...
Half-Life
Valve just made Half-Life free and put out a massive update with cut content and an hour-long 'making of' documentary
It's been 25 years since the release of the original Half-Life, one of the most important videogames of all time, and to celebrate the big birthday Valve has released a major new update to the game that adds new features and support for modern displays, restores cut and lost content, impleme...
Half-Life
Dev reveals that Half-Life could've been called 'Bent', 'Screwed', 'Trash', 'CrYsis', and my personal favourite, 'Dirt'
Dario Casali, who started working at Valve in 1996, has started his own playthrough of the original 1998 Half-Life on YouTube (thanks, Gamesradar). The episodes are coming out at a blistering pace, with Chapters 1 through 8 already released, but the Chapter 1 walkthrough comes front-loaded with a...