There are quite a few, read herds, of people who enjoy the cartoon-ish, hat wearing, customization filled game Team Fortress 2.  Quite a few of these people happen to be talented in things other than stabbing people in the back while wearing a paper mask or lighting said spy on fire while shouting incoherent phrases through a gas mask.  If you do love or enjoy TF2 or simply want to dabble in making maps for video games here is your chance.  The folks over at TF2Maps.net are hosting a Payload Map contest.  Participants are encourage to design a single stage payload (a game type) map before April 30.  If you want to do well though your map will need to feature a “dynamic element.”

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I have over fifty emails so far asking if we have any more Team Fortress 2 Righteous Bison weapon codes for Steam. I certainly do. How many exactly do I have left?  Thirty.

Now, before you start bombarding my inbox with emails begging for a code, how about you do this instead?

Help us hit over 1000 Facebook “likes” on our Facebook page.  We are about sixty or so “likes” away. Once we hit 1000 “likes” I’ll post 5 codes on our Facebook wall. From then on, for every 25 extra “likes” I’ll post another 5 until I run out of codes.

Got it? Good. Now, GET TO IT!

I’m trying my best to keep up with the demand of readers that are requesting a free weapon code for TF2. So, here are more. I’ll continue to post more throughout the day as I grab them from the WETA booth at Comic Con 2011.

Again, be nice and only grab one code. Enjoy!

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I stopped by the WETA booth and grabbed as many codes as I could for the new TF2 Righteous Bison weapon for the Solider class. If you play TF2 (and why wouldn’t you), copy/paste one of the codes below into Steam to claim your free gun! I’ll be posting more free gun codes throughout the day. Just stay tuned to the this post.

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After many months of waiting, Valve has officially released the second to last of the “Meet the Team” videos. “Meet the Medic” is one of the longest “Meet the Team” videos and has been creating a buzz all over the internet.  And rightfully so, gamers have been waiting for this to drop since May 2009 when “Meet the Spy” came out.

Also, in this update Valve has made TF2 free to play, with tiered Free and Premium accounts.  If you have “ever spent money on TF2, you have a premium account.  This includes purchasing the game before it was Free-to-Play, activating a retail version of the game, or making a purchase in the Mann Co. in-game store.” It seems like this was hinted at with new free games showing up on Steam last week; this will help keep TF2 one of the most popular war-themed hat simulators since 2007.  Check out the video below!

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Team Fortress 2 is getting a huge patch soon and a new “Meet the Medic” cinematic.  I really wish Valve’s cinematics team would team up with Pixar to create a TF2 movie of some sort.  In traditional Valve fashion, the company will be announcing new additions and changes to the game throughout the week. In today’s announcement called “Mobster Monday,” we learn of six new weapons: three for the heavy and three for the spy.  Also, we have one new payload map called “BarnBlitz.”

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Since the last big update of TF2, some eagle-eyed plays may have seen a few doves in the original  maps.  Rumors are that a new “Medic Meet the Team” video is going to drop any day now from Valve.  It has been two years since the last video, “Meet the Spy,” was released, and it was one of the best received yet.

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The Team Fortress 2 Pyro class gender has been revealed (unofficially) and is looking for a mate.  Below is a very humorous Craigslist ad about a woman looking for love in the Boston area.  She is a 23 year-old college student that is into cosplaying, D&D, video games, and, of course, TF2.

Not sure why she would need to post a Craigslist ad when she could just meet someone face-to-face at the next PAX East, but alas.

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Whether you want to admit it or not, let’s face it: TRON: Legacy is a popular film.  It’s so popular that, not long ago, Kotaku decided to hold a Tronify Everything Contest.  One of the submissions, a “Tronified” version of a Team Fortress 2 image, was apparently so popular, that its creator, Chandan Singh, decided to turn it into a full blown TF2 mod.  Entitled TF2 Tron, the first release includes the character classes only; this means buildings, weapons, and extra hats won’t get the TRON treatment, at least not until the next release (whenever that may be).

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WETA, bad-ass creators of props for popular films such as Lord of Rings, District 9, Halo Live-Action Short Films recently sent a nice holiday gift to VALVe.  According to the official Team Fortress blog, a level one sentry gun was delivered and placed in the VALVe lobby. The gun comes fully equipped with a motion sensor, lights, and speaker for authentic sentry gun sounds.

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