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• July 1, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Summer Sale! It's officially Summer in TF2 land, and you know what that means: more STUFF! Put on your shades and open those Refreshing Summer Coolers you traded all your metal away for and get awesome new hats, miscellaneous items, and a mailbox. Plus, the blog hints at the possibility of a second miscellaneous item slot! So get your spurs, badge, and hat ready, because the Engineer is about to become a full-on Sheriff.

• June 24, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The Über Update, Day Five Today is Stuff Friday! Introducing: the Meet the Medic taunt for the Medic, the Schadenfreude taunt for all classes, the limited edition Meet the Medic lithograph available for purchase, and special art from the update on the Artwork page. We hope you enjoyed the update!

• June 23, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated twice. Meet the Medic This is it! The moment you've been waiting for! Meet the Medic is finally here! The Clinical Trial set for the Medic was announced! The Über Update was released! And before we forget, there's one more thing... Team Fortress 2 is now free to play!

Past events

• June 22, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The Über Update, Day Three. Today is World War Wednesday! Introducing: The General's Formals set and the Airborne Armaments set for the Soldier, and the Detonator for the Pyro. Tomorrow is the big day!

• June 21, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The Über Update, Day Two. Today is Timbuk Tuesday! Introducing: the Lawrence of Australia set for the Sniper, the One Thousand and One Demoknights set for the Demoman, and The #1 Fan set for the Scout. Only two days left to go!

• June 20, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The Über Update, Day One. This is it: Meet the Medic is finally, officially coming, along with the largest update in Team Fortress 2 history! Day One, aka Mobster Monday, starts off with the revelation of two new class packs, Black Market Business for the Heavy, and The Man of Honor for the Spy, and a new Payload map, Barnblitz! While you're at it, check out the blog's snazzy new redesign, including the gorgeous Artwork section. And guess what: TF2 is F2P for a week! Invite your poor, Irish friends to get some hats and kill some mercenaries while they can!

• June 15, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Happening in YOUR Community As TF2Maps sets up their Asymmetry/Symmetry Control Point Map Contest, OZ Fortress made their 6th Ultiduo and a video with the higlights from their Cup 2 season. Check them out!

• June 14, 2011 - Spiral Knights promo item! If you unlock the achievement "Mission Accomplished" for Spiral Knights, you'll get a new item for the Soldier: the Spiral Sallet. Did we mention Spiral Knights is free?

• June 8, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The Saxxy Awards Are Here! Tears rolled as Valve announced the winners of each category live for the First Annual Saxxy Awards! Each winner received an Australium-plated statuette, a complete list of which can be found here.

• June 6, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Saxxy Awards Show - LIVE! Hold on to your hats while you watch as Valve announces the winner of a category every 5 minutes this Wednesday, June 8th @ 3:00PM PDT!

• June 2, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated twice. The Saxxy Nominees have been announced! After selecting ten videos for each category, Valve lets the TF2 Community choose their favorite videos among the nominees in all twenty categories to choose who'll win the Saxxy Awards. Start judging! There's also a new Red Faction: Armageddon promo item! If you pre-order Red Faction: Armageddon before June 9, you'll get a new melee weapon for the Pyro: the Maul. AND! From June 3-10, it will be Double Drop Week!

• May 31, 2011 - Magicka: Nippon DLC promo item! If you purchase the Magicka: Nippon DLC for Magicka before June 5, you'll get a new item for the Demoman: the Conjurer's Cowl.

• May 23, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Battle Voting Continues! When Valve closed the submission deadline last Thursday, they had received tens of thousands of videos submitted for the Saxxy Awards! But now, the Saxxys approach the end of the Battle Voting, on May 26th, so vote while you can! The most voted videos will then be selected by Valve, allowing the community to vote one more time to decide who'll take the Saxxy. Until then, keep on voting!

• May 20, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Bonjour amis de cinéma. Francis the Talking France explains Valve's lack of cinematic know-how, so part of the Saxxy Awards decision making process will be left up to you, the fans! You can vote for entries on this page, as well as flag any Call of Duty or Animal Planet videos, as those are generally not eligible for the contest.

• May 13, 2011 - The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings promo items! If you purchase The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings before May 17, you'll get three new items for the Scout. Enjoy!

• May 10, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Saxxy Contest FAQ. Valve answers your frequently asked questions about the Saxxy Awards and posts an update for the next Community vs. Pros event. And since the community requested it, a no-dialog version of the Meet the Director comic is now available for download.

• May 5, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The Replay Update. Valve releases the next major TF2 update. Introducing the Replay Update! Now it's even easier than ever before to make exciting videos of your greatest losses and most humiliating victories. Demonstrate your movie directing skills by entering to win a Saxxy Award, with over twenty categories to choose from. And in case that wasn't enough, there's a new comic to read and ten new hats to wear. Have fun, and good luck to all who enter the contest!

• May 2, 2011 - Midweek Madness: Plants Vs. Zombies promo items! If you buy Plants Vs. Zombies on Steam before May 5th, you'll get two hats for TF2: the Brain Bucket for the Soldier, and the Dead Cone for the Pyro. Enjoy!

• April 28, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated Mounts and Blades and Hats and Fires and Hats and Swords A number of promotional items have been released! 2 hats for Mount & Blade With Fire & Sword and a misc and weapon for SpaceChem, which Robin states is pretty much the greatest game ever made. A few Community news items too!

• April 19, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Well That Was Close When the TF2 Team discovered Portal 2 had no hats, they had to do something urgently. Specifically, spending a night adding hats to the game. That means players can now equip any Mann Co. Caps, Prince Tavish's Crowns, Pyro's Beanies, Fancy Fedoras, Master's Yellow Belts, and Tyrant's Helms they already own in Team Fortress 2 on their robots! You're welcome, Portal 2 team.

• April 15, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Update on the Hatless Update: Now with 100% More Hat A hat, or as Robin "Judas" Walker calls it, a "pin", managed to sneak into the Hatless Update! While the TF2 Team spends the weekend at the library looking up the definition of the word "pin", you may want to know that players who have pre-ordered Portal 2 will receive a suspiciously hat-like pin to wear proudly. It's like a hat, except for your chest (or not).

• April 14, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The Hatless Update Despite the sayings and even the threats, the TF2 Team proves TF2 is no one-trick pony and releases the Hatless Update, an update with zero new hats! Introducing the coaching and voting systems, training for more classes, class-specific duels, dynamic model loading, server-Steam ID association, bot improvements, voice chat improvements and even paint improvements, plus several item tweaks and a new map: KOTH_Badlands! Enjoy the update, but watch your back, because Spy-Bot is feeling more devious than ever.

• April 8, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Charity Results The TF2 Team raised $430,543.65 with all the donations from the Japan Charity Bundle, and would like to thank the TF Community for their generous acts! The Unusual Hat Club also raised more $3,000 for Japan through their Hats for Help campaign. Thank you everyone who took part in this charity!

• April 7, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. This is Very Good Title to Blog Post The Heavy, who is filling in for the Soldier (due to jury duty), just wanted to let you all know there are nine new hats available through crafting, dropping, or purchasing through the Mann Co. Store. Oh, yes. And a bear. That is all.

• April 5, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. How does this blog thing work again? The TF2 team posts various pieces of community news, notably a video of a female Spy model created by ChemicalAlia, maker of the Saharan Spy Polycount Pack.
• April 1, 2011 - The Potato Sack. Purchase or own all 13 games in The Potato Sack and receive a Genuine potato hat in TF2.

• March 29, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Hats For Help Sales from the Japan Charity Bundle have raised over $300,000 so far in support of the Template:W's disaster relief efforts in Japan. This is fantastic news, and a testament to the generosity and awesomeness of the Team Fortress 2 community. Well done, and keep up the great efforts! And just as a reminder, the Japan Charity Bundle will be available in the Mann Co. Store until April 6.

• March 23, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. If We Could Be Serious For a Moment... Valve supports the current Red Cross efforts in Japan by making three special hats and two Noise Makers available in the Mann Co. Store through the Japan Charity Bundle. All of the money, after tax, goes directly to the Red Cross. But hurry up, as the hats will become permanently unavailable after April 6.

• March 10, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The First-Ever Three-Way Pack Update! Oh? You want more promotional items? Well great news! Valve, Sega, and Larolaro, creator of the Soldier's Tank Buster Polycount Pack have teamed up to bring you The Shogun Pack, bringing nine brand new in-game items for TF2! You get four weapons, four hats, and a tool. The new items are available through crafting, dropping, purchasing in the Mann Co. Store, or by preordering Total War: Shogun 2 by March 15 on Steam, which will get you a Genuine quality version of the set. Enjoy the update!

• March 1, 2011 - Here are some updates on recent TF2 Promotional items. First, a new item is available. If you preorder Homefront before March 15, you'll receive the Hero's Hachimaki, a hat for the Soldier. Also, the RIFT preorder weapons, the Sharpened Volcano Fragment and the Sun-on-a-Stick, are now tradable and craftable. Have fun with the new items!

• February 24, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Community Map Pack! Valve decides that Mondays aren't the only days in the week worth sprucing up, as they've just put three more community maps into TF2! Introducing the Community Map Pack Update! Added to the game are Lakeside, a King of the Hill map by Valentin "3DNJ" Levillain; Nightfall, a Payload Race map by Aaron "Psy" Garcha and Paul Good; and Frontier, the Payload map by Patrick "MangyCarface" Mulholland and Arhurt that stars Lil Chew-Chew! Congratulations to the mapmakers for getting their work officialized (again, in some cases)! Now, go get playing (and stamp-buying)!

• February 14, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. It's Monday. Valve posts Benjamuffin's song about Tom Bui again (third time) as they sing about the latest updates in the TF2 community. First, United Kingdom Community Servers is holding a Knockout Cup. Next, ESL announces a 1v1 Scout Cup, with the signups still open for all of you scatterbrained speedniks. Finally, a mysterious individual known as SlienceMaster shows off a real life hat. But wait, you ask. How is it possible that someone made a hat in real life? By basing it off of a preexisting hat, of course.

• February 3, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. From Hell. Another TF2 cross-promotion has arrived, this time in the form of RIFT. If you preorder RIFT before March 1st, you'll have access to two new weapons in TF2: the Sharpened Volcano Fragment for the Pyro and the Sun-on-a-Stick for the Scout.

• February 2, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. It Is Me, But Smaller! The second figure in Gaming Heads' TF2 statue line has been revealed in the form of the Soldier! Like the Heavy, the Soldier will have team colored variants and an exclusive version that comes with both the Rocket Launcher and the Direct Hit.

• January 24, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Monday Night Combat. Team Fortress 2 meets Monday Night Combat! If you purchase Monday Night Combat on Steam before February 1st, you'll get three items for TF2, including the Essential Accessories and Superfan for the Scout, and the all-class Athletic Supporter hat. You'll also get a bunch of TF2 items for use in Monday Night Combat! But most important of all, Crit-a-Cola has been added to the weapon drop list! Seems those theories were right all along...

• January 21, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Look at me! Look at me! Two pieces of community news: Wireplay's about to start Season 8 of their competitive 6v6 league; announcing TF2Maps.net's Construction Theme pack, and their Asymmetry vs Symmetry mapping contest.

• January 6, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Have at 'em, lads! A community notice for the upcoming Pubs vs Pros Winter Wasteland matchup, where 6 competitive TF2 players take on 9 pubbers, and a reminder to watch ETF2L's Highlander Mix-up highlights on eXtelevision.

• January 3, 2011 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Back to the drawing board, genius! The TF2 team has released the details on the new Item Test system, which gives community item contributors an easier way to test their creations. The details on how to test custom models can be found in the blog post or here on the wiki.

• December 27, 2010 - Team Fortress 2 is chosen as PCGamer UK's Online Game of the Year, 3 years after release! Well done Valve! Keep up the awesome stuff that keeps us coming back!

• December 22, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Additional time has been awarded. The Administrator has kindly asked Mr. Hale to increase his shipments of weapons and equipment for exactly one week, in order to ensure that you are properly equipped to fulfill your contracts. There are control points that need capturing, intelligence that needs recovering, and hats to be secured. From December 23rd to December 30th, the rate at which items drop will be doubled. Also, Miss Pauling has gifted everyone with a "stocking stuffer". Happy Holidays to all!

• December 17, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Aye! Me bottle o'scrumpy! Anon! The Australian Christmas update is here! A ton of new items have been added to the game, as well as a new game mode! Three more Polycount packs have been put in game, including "The Medi-eval Medic," "The Hibernating Bear," and "The Expert's Ordnance"! Keys have been added for the Festive crates! New game mode: Medieval Mode, where you can use nothing but ye olde weapons! And you can donate to mappers you like, and get a hat in exchange! Wow! Aren't you glad we all live in the Wonderful World of Oz?

• December 10, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Need a Sentry Here! The blog shows off a beautiful Sentry Gun built by Weta Workshop. It's motion-sensitive, has audio, and the ability to blow away terrible Half-Life movie scripts! The Team Fortress twitter account is also announced, just in case you follow that sort of thing.

• December 9, 2010 - New TF2 promotional item! The Pyro Meets Killing Floor! From December 14th to January 4th, owners of both TF2 and Template:W can get a nifty new in-game TF2 item for the Pyro: Mr Foster's Gasmask and Tie! Who needs those useless napalm grenades when you can show everyone that you mean business? And you'll be able to play as Pyro (RED or BLU) in Killing Floor! Who knew the Pyro was a fan of Template:W (not that any of us are shocked)? Anyway, here's the Steam store link. Have fun!

• December 6, 2010 - The Great Steam Treasure Hunt is here! Who needs metal detectors when you can get hats? From December 6th to the 20th, you can participate in The Great Steam Treasure Hunt! Buy games on sale, complete objectives, enter to win free games, and of course, GET A HAT. Every couple of days, new objectives will be added to the Treasure hunt, for a total of 28. You can get an upgradable TF2 hat in the process, starting with the Bounty Hat at five objectives, the Treasure Hat at fifteen, and the Hat of Undeniable Wealth And Respect for completing all 28! And no, the third hat probably isn't the question mark, sadly.

• December 2, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Prepare for your examination! The Team Fortress 2 public beta has been released! Now you can test out different versions of weapons, maps, and other game-changing effects without actually breaking the game! As usual, Valve keeps tabs on the community, noting how UGC is about to start their TF2 Highlander League and how Ozfortress has created a TF2 State of Origin Promo Video. Valve also posts a helpful guide to understanding that Victoria is the best state in Australia, wherever that is. Also, do you like music? You do like music, don't you?

• November 24, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Let's try that again! Remember how Valve was going to participate in that ETF2L.org Highlander exhibition match with pubbers and pros, and how it was postponed? Well fear not! The match has been rescheduled! You can get all the details here. Also, do you like art? You do like art, don't you?

• November 23, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Who wants some a this? Poker Night at the Inventory is out! Now you can get those really cool new items you've been hearing about on the wiki for the past few weeks! So why are you still reading this? Go get the game and have fun! Oh, and the TF2 team posts a few community updates, including AndyBoneS14's TF2 LAN Trilogy (Part 1), epic.LAN's UK LAN TF2 Tournament, and Part 4 of TFPortal's TF2 Fanstuff Special.

• November 5, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. TF2 Maintenance - November 9 - 1pm PST. The TF2 team updates us on item system downtime on Tuesday, November 9th [1] from 1pm PST and an hour and a half on, leaving Backpacks, Loadouts, Trading, the Mann Co. Store and Crafting unavailable for the period. Additionally, all API users should note that item IDs are moving during the same maintenance block. Conveniently provided is a Steam Users' Forums thread with updates.

• November 3, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Shh. Sascha is asleep. Telltale's upcoming Poker Night at the Inventory, featuring the Heavy from Team Fortress 2, is going to have earnable TF2 in-game items! First up, there will be a preorder bonus consisting of the Dealer's Visor for the Heavy. Next, through regular Poker Night gameplay, you'll have the chance to earn The Iron Curtain minigun for the Heavy, Max's Lugermorph for the Scout and the Engineer, a Freelance Police badge called The License to Maim miscellaneous item for all classes, the Enthusiast's Timepiece wrist watch from Penny Arcade's Tycho for the Spy, and finally, Strong Bad's Dangeresque Shades for the Demoman. Have fun!

• October 29, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Here, have some art. The TF2 team posts some high res artwork from the Scream Fortress event. Nice!

• October 27, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Sound of Blog Post Being Posted The Scream Fortress, 2010 Halloween Event is upon us! Introducing: The Horseless Headless Horsemann! Kill him and get the new Ghostchievements! And any of last year's Scarechievements if you missed 'em! All of this can be done on one of the two winning Art Pass Contest maps, Mann Manor! What's that? Too scary a map for you? Ha! Then you can play the other winning map, Mountain Lab! Also check out the Mann Co. Store for new items, like the Sticky Jumper! Have fun!

• October 26, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Couldn't ya see the bloody bombs? Valve and KritzKast team up for a contest where YOU can figure out what the heck the Demoman was saying in his Meet the Team short! Next, BLU and RED sticky bomb plush are now available in the Valve online store. Also, My Gaming Edge is working on their 1v1 training mod. And finally, from the makers of the Heavy's interactive YouTube adventures comes "A Granary Adventure: The Underdog Story" featuring poor Pyro.

• October 14, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Sandwich and I are coming for you! Valve announces the winners of the Art Pass Contest, as well as some honorable mentions. Congrats to YM and 3DNJ for winning! Special mentions to Acegikmo, Gooba, honeymustard, and TerabyteST for their excellent work. Valve also links to an ESEA S6 highlight reel.

• October 6, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Free hats! Ellis' Cap and the Frying Pan given to those who already owned or purchase a copy of Left 4 Dead 2 before Thursday at 4pm PST. Also, a Team Fortress 2 update that fixes numerous bugs from the Mann-Conomy Update.

• September 30, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated:
  • Mann-Conomy F.A.Q. A third blog post to reiterate there is an F.A.Q. for the new update.
  • Probably not a big deal, but... The next major update is revealed: The Mann-Conomy Update. Introducing the long-awaited Polycount items, the Mann Co. Store & Catalog, more new items and new features.
  • Bidwell's Big Plan A comic introducing the back story of the Mann-Conomy Update.

• September 2, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The Highlander Mix-Up Match is HERE! The Valve guys open the ETF2L Highlander Community Challenge with a friendly, Highlander match with pubbers and pros. Due to technical difficulties, the match was postponed. Stay tuned for more information.

• August 24, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The healing is not as rewarding as the hurting! A contest where YOU write hat descriptions, with the winning entries appearing in-game? AND a new TF2 cross-promotion for buying Worms:Reloaded? Wow! It gets you a hat and holy hands grenades! Plus, Valve takes some competitive scene notes.

• August 19, 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Two Quick Notes The TF2 Community Submitted Avatar Gallery is up and they show their love for eXTV's latest video, an Intro to Competitive TF2
• August 11th 2010 - PCgamer posts an interview with Robin Walker regarding Trading, a new Game Mode and the Polycount pack (with a bonus surprise pack). All three are scheduled to be released sometime "next month."

• August 10th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Sorry to pop in unannounced Announcement of the ETF2L Highlander Community Challenge and an open invitation to community contributors to give interviews on modelling.

• August 4th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Golden Wrench Destruction for Charity The TF2 team reflects on the Golden Wrench charity event, and of their continued respect for the community's initiatives.

• July 28th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Is that an Equalizer in your pocket? The TF2 team has been busy playing Minecraft, an upcoming game and the community has been busy making a Minecraft themed Payload map!

• July 24th 2010 - The Golden Charity is officially underway. Donate money to Child's Play! Every 25 donations of over $10 will result in a destroyed Golden Wrench! Please do donate!

• July 19th 2010 - Do you like hats? Do you like free games? Do you like blasting away waves of alien parasites with your friends? Do you REALLY like hats?? Then check out Alien Swarm, a free game from Valve that comes with a TF2 hat-bearing achievement! Don't you LOVE hats???

• July 16th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated RUN! RUUUUUN! I AM COMING FOR YOU!, The guys at TF2Maps.net have opened their doors on their new Art Pass Contest. Valve have lost a map and the TF2Maps.net entrants have to detail it! The winner goes official! Also, Team Fortress Wiki get a cameo in the comic!

• July 15th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Aye, that's tha way ya do it! The winners of the Polycount pack contest have been announced! Congratulations to all of the winners! BONUS: Valve has confirmed that several more packs from the contest will be added to the game in later updates. Huzzah!

• July 8th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Engineer Update is Here!. The Engineer update is released! Three new official maps, the community map Coldfront, several new weapons, and of course, new Engineer domination lines. What are you waiting for? Go play!

• July 7th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Engineer Update: Day Three. Another official (dynamic) payload map, Hightower, is unveiled, as well as a community-created wrench (and there's at least one more melee item to follow). Plus! Moving sentries?

• July 6th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Engineer Update: Day Two. A new weapon is revealed: the Wrangler! Also, a new official payload map, Upward, will come out with the update. 50 Golden Wrenches to go!

• July 5th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Engineer Update: Day One. The first regular unlock for the Engineer is revealed: The Frontier Justice, an alternate shotgun. Every 25 Golden Wrenches found will produce information on a new weapon on the TF2 Official Blog.

• July 2nd 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Loose Canon. Apple comic was non-canon, but the Engineer comic is canon. A must read!

• July 1st 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Steam Web APIs Valve creates new APIs for item data in TF2. Check out the blog for further details.

• June 30th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Listen! Calm before the storm: Check out the entries for the Polycount Contest! Also commemorates the TF2 Wiki at its newer, more official, less confrontational home.

• June 18th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Three Maps. Two Teams. One Victor. Pubbers battle it out with Pros in The Battle of Both Worlds! Watch as competitive players slug it out with public server players. And check out that nifty poster.

• June 10th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Wow, you guys are GOOD TF2 comes out on the Mac! Welcome to the fray, guys. Mac update trailer available for your viewing pleasure. Mac users get Earbuds!

• June 9th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated. Tomorrow.. Big things happening at Valve. Things like the release of TF2 on Mac, 10th June 2010.

• June 3rd 2010 - Crash hunting with Valve's -GreenMarine-. Been crashing in TF2 a lot lately? Then you can help solve the problem!

• May 24th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog Danke, my hard-hatted friend! Valve and Polycount team up for a new video game art contest!

• May 20th 2010 - More Contribute! items added. 10 new hats, 2 new weapons, and 1 new misc. item. Congrats guys.

• May 18th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog All I can tell you about this next procedure is that it will be excruciating. More Pyro updates are coming out! Also check out Mister Royzo's Fancy vs Nasty Update page.

• May 13th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated twice - A Week in the Life of the TF2 Team. A member of staff is missing from Valve! He didn't like hats, so the team didn't like him. Gotta move that gear up!. Community activity round up. TF2Maps Competitive CTF Contest and the Third European edition of Pros vs Pubbers.

• May 5th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated - Imagine if I hadn't been drunk. Primeval warrior added to game and Engineer Update teaser video released. Coming Soon...

• April 29th 2010 - Team Fortress 2 Update - 119th update commemorative items added: Grizzled veteran, Soldier of fortune and Mercenary.

• April 28th 2010 - Team Fortress 2 Update - New Scout secondary unlock Crit-a-Cola added, multiple bugs fixed and fundamental gameplay changes introduced.

• April 20th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated - Thanks for standin still, wanker., Significant changes to the item drop system detailed.

• April 15th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated - It is a good day to be giant man, Sam & Max crossover announced. Lugermorph, Big kill and Max's severed head released to those who purchase The Devil's Playhouse.

• April 8th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated - Gotta move that gear up!, Round-up of Community activity.

• March 19th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated - Nice goin', pardner, first wave of Community items released. Items released include: Killer's kabuto, Pain train and Hotrod.

• March 9th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated - Your Mac Questions Answered

• March 2nd 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated - Dammit dammit dammit dammit!

• February 2nd 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated - Propaganda Contest Runners-Up!

• January 28th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated - Cheaters, Winners and Busybodies

• January 27th 2010 - Team Fortress 2 Update - '100? Newspaper' added to main menu. Community mystified.

• January 25th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated - R.I.P. Crazy Legs.

• January 13th 2010 - TF2 Official Blog updated - Contribute site announced, submit your custom models and avatars to VALVe!

• December 21st 2009 - TF2 Official Blog updated twice - Official bot commands added[2]

• December 17th 2009 - TF2 Official Blog updated three times - VI Day Declared, Soldier wins the War on the Demomen, claiming the new Gunboats item as his own - Two new maps revealed, Gorge and Doublecross - The War Update goes live, have fun!

• December 16th 2009 - Casualties Updated - Two new Soldier weapons, the Buff Banner and the Equalizer, are revealed - New Demoman weapon the Scottish Resistance revealed - Soldier and Demoman achievements revealed - TF2 Official Blog Updated - Propaganda Contest winners announced

April Fool's Day Events

• April 1, 2011 - Introducing, the first annual Template:W, adding a new weapon and playable class! First up, forget the Holy Mackerel, and come check out the newest TF2 weapon, the cow. Originally hailing from 2fort, the cow is ready for battle, inflicting bleeding and milk upon your enemies. Also added is the first ever playable character addition, the Demopan! Equipped with his trusty Stout Shako and Frying Pan, this trading expert can interrupt team communications with trade requests. Enjoy the update!