As Matthew Lynley over at venturebeat.com notes, Team Fortress 2 is a multiplayer FPS game that enables players to team up and fight it out in huge king-of-the-hill and capture-the-flag style matches. Gamers are able to choose from one of several different classes – including Spy, Medic, Heavy and Demoman – that all fulfil different roles such as healing friendly players and carrying Intel.

Although most multiplayer FPS games feature team-based deathmatches (where the winner is the team with the most amount of kills), they don’t actually encourage a lot of team work. In Team Fortress 2 on the other hand, team work is essential. Rather than feature realistic graphics like the Call of Duty and Battlefield franchises, Team Fortress 2 is more like a cartoon that’s been brought to life.

The critically-acclaimed Team Fortress 2 game is free to download and play right through Sunday. Besides the upcoming update, the developer is also teasing the arrival of a new ‘meet the’ short video, which introduces the characters that gamers take control of in the Team Fortress 2 game. As noted by Dany Argueta from neoseeker.com, the massive update is due to arrive on Thursday, June 23rd.

The upcoming update will provide gamers with a new Payload map and some new mobster-themed gear for the Spy and the Heavy classes. The new Heavy weapons include The Eviction Notice (spiked brass knuckles that enable the Heavy to punch 50% faster), the Tomislay (a minigun with 75% faster, silent spin-up time) and The Family Business (a shotgun whose clip is 40% bigger than a standard shotgun).

Meanwhile, the Spy will receive two new weapons, The Enforcer (a pistol that does 20% more damage than a standard revolver) and The Big Earner, and The Made Man (a fancy rose that players can wear on their suit). The new Payload map you will receive is Barnblitz, which takes place primarily indoors with barns. Players can expect to finally see the ‘Meet the Medic’ video as well.

Are you looking forward to the upcoming Team Fortress 2 update?

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This is arguably the whole point of a review, to help in the decision making of whether to get the game or not. Today we have news of a website called Christ Centered Gamer’s review of the game Portal 2.

From the name of the website you’d expect their review to offer Christian insight into the game, maybe identifying the under lying messages of a game or the symbolism and what a game represents. However their review of this game offered no shred of Christian insight, according to a writer at Kotaku.

The writer then published his own article stating how he felt about the CCG article and in turn sparked a response and a clarification from another writer at CCG. He argued that the Kotaku writer had missed the point and wanted to explain.

You can read both articles at Kotaku by clicking the link above. Do you think each writer defends their articles well?

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As recently noted over on the store.steampowered.com website, the latest Portal 2 PC patch includes improvements and fixes for a number of issues that gamers were reporting, including the crash and / or graphical glitches that occurred after players changed the video settings without exiting the game.

The latest update should have also fixed the issue where players were getting stuck at the beginning of chapter 6, as well as the problem where the mouse cursor wouldn’t highlight UI elements in the game on Mac OS X and the issue in which the game would crash when trying to use other weapons.

It is also said to have fixed the occasional crash that seemed to occur after Alt-Tab / minimizing or running in a window on specific graphics hardware, as well as various localization bugs and improvements. It has also removed unsupported console commands that appeared to cause issues when used.

You can read more about the changes within the new patch via the store.steampowered.com link. Have you been experiencing any of the issues mentioned?

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Now it appears that even more information has been revealed, including the fact that Portal 2 will feature two different endings. According to Ryan Albertson at justpushstart.com, Valve’s Chet Faliszek told Videogamer that each ending will feature something special.

Chet explained that the original Portal game only had a single player mode so therefore just had one ending. However, a co-op mode has now been added to the Portal 2 game, so Valve decided to add an entirely new ending to the title.

The other bit of information that was revealed recently is the fact that user created content will be playable on all three platforms. According to Mike Jackson at computerandvideogames.com (via Nowgamer.com), players will not be able to create any content unless they are on a PC.

Faliszek explained that the mod tools unfortunately have to stay on the PC, due to there being a bunch of dependencies on the Windows platform. The content on the other hand will be able to be played on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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