Recently VALVE has been releasing major character updates to TF2 at a fantastic pace. It seems just as we finish experiencing the last update another rolls along to reinvigorate the players. First Medic, then Pyro, and now Heavy, but the way the players are getting the new weapons probably isn’t the way VALVE envisioned it. [...]
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More Cart + More Map = Badwater Basin
Yes, as promised more news from VALVE today about the Heavy update coming Tuesday the 19th. This time it’s a new map from VALVE called Badwater Basin. The new payload map has wide spaces and promises vertical combat between the map’s three check points. The picture below shows the Blue team’s opening area. http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/badwater.htm This [...]
The Killing Gloves of Boxing! aka K.G.B.
The new unlockable weapon for the TF2 Heavy has been announced and so were 35 new achievements. The new Gloves give players five seconds of guaranteed critical hits after he makes a kill with them and any further kills using the gloves adds more time. The critical hit boost can be used with ranged weapons [...]
Wii Motion Plus: The Good, The Bad, and the Segmented.
With the announcement of the Wii Motion Plus now behind us, I’ve had time to think about how this will affect Nintendo’s casual gamer audience. Yes, I’m excited about the one to one precision of the device, but the way it’s going to be introduced into the market worries me and seems muddled. This drudges [...]

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