Friday, June 06 2008
We've almost completely wrapped up the next big release for Team Fortress 2, which will focus on the Pyro class, along with the Meet the Sniper movie. We've spent time looking at how the recent Medic release went, and have rolled feedback from that release into the new item designs for the Pyro and into the design of the achievements required to unlock those items. One item, shown here in concept form, will be the Axtinguisher. Although it does about half of normal damage to standard run-of-the-mill non-burning enemies, once you light someone on fire the Axtinguisher will guarantee a critical hit.

Along with all of the new content, we're also going to be making some significant changes to the Pyro class for everyone, regardless of whether they have unlocked any new items.

As you may notice on the forums all of the avatars have gone missing. Who has stolen them? ME! I have also given them back in the form of a gallery that you can select that avatars from. To select your old avatar, click "Profile" on the forums to go edit your profile, then at the bottom where you would upload your avatar, look below it at the button for the "Gallery" click it and you will be brought to a new page where you can select which avatar you wish to use. If you upload a avatar, it will be uploaded to this gallery so you may use it later if you wish. Have Fun!

Ok, as some of you may have noticed, we have been having a long running issue on the site with a error that starts off as "Warning: Cannot modify header information" and sometimes keeps pages from displaying properly on browsers such as Firefox (which I have now switched back to due to fixing this error). Well the solution was rather simple... After searching for about 2 hours straight for a solution... As I had suspected it was a on/off function that was set wrong and the line was to be changed from "output_buffering = Off" to "output_buffering = On". If anyone encounters more errors please PM me ASAP! This should be the last of the fixes for the site!

Friday, May 16 2008
Left 4 Dead, Valve's upcoming co-op frenetic survival horror game, is undergoing some intense playtesting at Valve right now. Earlier this week, we took a break and showed the game to the press. Here are some of their reactions: Joystiq, Wired, 1up, MTV, Kotaku, and Gametap.



Our favorite quote about Left 4 Dead: Gametap said "Valve should re-name this thing 'Oh S---, The Game.'"
Activision added four new titles to its catalog today. Check out the growing library of Activision games here.