COMMUNITY IS CREDIT TO TEAM! Remember a couple months ago when Valve opened its doors to the creative Team Fortress 2 community?  They created a website for anyone with 3D modeling skills to contribute their own hats and weapons. Well, just yesterday, a new patch went out and added some of those community made hats and weapons.

Here are some stats one these new weapons:

• The Homewrecker – 2x bonus against buildings, 75% power against people
• The Pain Train – 2x capture rate, 1.1x damage from bullets
• The Dalokohs Bar – Max health increase by 50 for 30 seconds – Heavy

[via Team Fortress 2 Blog]
[Images via Reddit]

Oh how I love the internet.  The never ending supplier of information.  Today, the internet has supplied us with more information about Portal 2 in the form of scanned pages from the latest Game Informer magazine. If you take a good look at the scanned pages, you will notice that some of the pictures on the scans have already been released, but in ASCII art form. You will also notice that it is coming out for Xbox 360, PC and Mac.

Thank you, Valve, for finally bringing legit games to the Mac.

Did you survive your time over at Aperture Science Labs? Well, if you’re reading then of course you have. You’re still alive. (rimshot)  If the Portal ARG or the extended ending to Portal wasn’t enough of a sign that a sequel is on the horizon, Steam has posted official news that it is coming.  (OH JOY!)

Game Informer’s upcoming magazine cover has 2 official screenshots and will have more once the issue hits the newsstands. By the look of it, maybe GlaDOS is also, still alive.

On GameStop’s product description of the game, the wrote:

The game’s two-player cooperative mode features its own entirely separate campaign with a unique story, test chambers, and two new player characters. This new mode forces players to reconsider everything they thought they knew about portals. Success will require them to not just act cooperatively, but to think cooperatively.

Oh man.  Working cooperatively with fast paced puzzles? Lets just hope that this doesn’t start any more frustrations between Jessica and I.  The New Super Mario Bros. Wii already has done enough.

[via Steam]

The updates for Portal are getting even stranger. We all know Valve is hinting at something new but the recent updates haven’t provided much information as to what. The newest update has changed the ending to the original game. This is leading a lot of people to speculate that Portal 2 is going to be announced soon. If you don’t want to play through and see the new ending, just watch the video below. To help clarify the ending, you get dragged off by a robot that says “THANK YOU FOR ASSUMING THE PARTY ESCORT SUBMISSION POSITION”

In the past, Macs have definitely gotten the shaft from game developers, opting to program their games for Windows instead, leaving Mac users out in the cold. But recently, with the ability for Mac users to run Windows through Boot Camp, that has slowly been changed. And now, it seems as game developer Valve is ready to make an announcement that Mac enthusiasts have been waiting for.

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WHAT IS IT?!?!?!  It has been almost a year since I last posted about this weird website.  With Valves’ Portal ARG in full swing, people are still wondering what exactly is it all for?  Another Half Life? Portal 2? Or maybe a combination of both in the same box like the Orange Box? So, there are two theories going around the net about all of this marketing hype and the video below.  The video could be something a fan made.  If this is said to be true, then Valve seems to be OK with the fan using their logos at the bottom of this weird website.

The other theory is that this is an extension of Valve awesome marketing.  In any case, it is damn interesting.

Oh and btw. If you look at the source on the webpage where this video came from, there is an HTML comment that says

The wait is not yet over

And from Wikibruce:

If you look closely at the very end of the film, you will notice below the flaming ring the letters “MMX”. Its meaning is uncertain, however MMX is the roman numerical value for 2010.

The Team Fortress 2 team at Valve has put a somewhat cease fire on the war. The winners of the war are the soldiers. Because they have killed more Demomen than Demomen killing Soldiers, they have won Gunboats. A secondary slot item that reduces damage dealt to yourself when doing a rocket jump. Congrats, easy mode class.

All items are new items for both classes have already been added to the game. So go play now! Also, if you don’t already own the game, play it for free this weekend to test it out! What are you all waiting for? Stop reading! Go play!

[via tf2]

Valve’s super popular zombie game, Left 4 Dead 2 has doubled the amount of copies sold from the original. That’s a lot of dead brains. I guess Valve has really proven their point that the game isn’t just some expansion that should have been sold for a cheaper price like Halo ODST. Congrats to the Valve team and keep them zombies coming. We’ll be ready with chainsaws and Magnums in hand.

Full press release after the break.

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You exactly have 5 days to figure out where the nearest Left 4 Dead 2 ad is and take a photo next to it. Why? Because Valve is hosting a contest that could win you a limited edition L4D2 Xbox 360 or a free copy of the game.

From the contest page:

Take a funny, interesting, scary or otherwise unique photograph of you or a friend in front of one of L4D2’s outdoor media placements (billboards, bus ads, etc.) and you could win a custom Xbox. All entries will be reviewed and judged by Gabe Newell, president and founder of Valve, so be creative!

All entries must be submitted by Sunday, November 15th.

So go out there and take photos! GL, HF. Full press release after the break.

[via L4D]

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Need more cinematic footage from Left 4 Dead 2? Well, here’s the 2nd TV spot from Valve. It doesn’t show anything new, but it does certainly get the hype train going at full “steam.” (See what I did there?)