The first details of the TF2 Sniper update are out and it’s the replacement weapon for the Sniper Rifle, a bow and arrow called the Huntsman. It is a mid-range weapon that insta-crits on headshots.
This update might actually get me playing TF2 again. I haven’t played it in a while because it lost it’s fun after some of the updates, but I will have to try it out.
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CEVO has just announced their free Left 4 Dead tournament which will start Monday May 18th. The Survival Tourney will be a 128 team, double elimination tournament with matches twice a week on Monday and Thursday.
Every competitive L4D player will be looking forward to this since CAL died. Since CAL stopped after Week 1 there has only been the Infected Cup, TWL, and GameBattles, so CEVO picking up L4D should give the game a boost, along with the upcoming update with Death Toll and Dead Air.
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Read more »The latest entry in the Official Left 4 Dead blog is about how they decided on the box art and shows some examples of what they had before they decided on the current art. Read the whole story for more about the design and the some examples of what they had before they decided on the current art. Below is a snippet of the article and one of the previous designs.
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Epic Games has been very busy churning out what will be a massive update to Unreal Tournament 3. There is no release date planned for the update, but the company promises that the list of changes seen below and on the full change log are only the tip of the iceberg.
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Another great idea from Valve. I always hate having to update all my settings when I use a different computer, especially if I don’t have a backup config to copy over.
Valve, creators of best-selling entertainment products and advanced technologies, today announced the roll out of Steam Cloud, a set of services for Steam that stores application data online and allows user experiences to be consistent from any PC. Steam Cloud is a free extension to Steam, a leading a platform for PC games with over 15 million accounts worldwide.
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