TF2 Offical Blog has an interesting article on their character design for the Demoman. If you haven’t read it already, do take a look….Funny to see how they decided to go ahead with the stereotype of the angry Scotsman, but realized that visually it was veering too close to Groundskeeper Willie:

Willie in full Highlander regalia. [...]

Valve dishes on their new Alpine Art Style.

The hills are alive, with the sound of PWNAGE.

Steampowered forum member Jhaxavier read the secret thoughts of my heart the other day:
“Anyone else think that there is not enough CTF and other CP maps being played lately? Every day about 4/5 servers I go to are running Dustbowl or Goldrush.
Granted, they are good maps (maybe not Goldrush, the Blus are gimped), but is [...]

I just knew this would be funny when they made him German:
Team Fortress 2 Meet The Soldier (German) from Hans Bambel on Vimeo.

Yours truly’s flavor of the month; an old image of one of the classic DoD player classes sans helmet, with the background of the ancient map, dod_omaha:

I did a DoD:S map called dod_foy - I need to blog on that. I have a “Mapping” category that has nothing in it yet.

As confirmed on the surprisingly-frequently-updated TF2 Official Blog, Mr. Heavy W. Guy is the next Team Fortress 2 character slated for updates.

It seems the big difference with the Heavy update is that they’re opening a window into their design process. No doubt a lot of people are going to interpret this as “OMG tehy’re [...]

M Bison is an FNF regular from way back in the TFC days of the server. He can usually be found shouting “Cry some more!” and quoting Ahnold. Here is his steam profile, in all it’s resplendent, Lobster-Hatted glory:

These guys are surprising us with the TF2 Offical Blog.
 
Click on over there to see the back of this card, and the Demoman.

I’m hesitating when I think of doing map reviews. There’s a couple of reasons. First, I made a map - it developed over a couple of years and went through several widely different versions. I know from experience that you cannot judge a map by playing it one time. This ESPECIALLY [...]

As expected, there was a lot of Pyros, it was raining Achievements, and a good time was had by all on FNF. Even some johnny-come-lately Medics were following Pyros around, trying to mop up the Bedside Manner Achievement (healing someone as they get an achievement). I got that one myself, tonight. No, [...]