Meet the Spy, one of nine playable character classes in Team Fortress 2: He is a puzzle, wrapped in an enigma, shrouded in riddles, lovingly sprinkled with intrigue, express mailed to Mystery, Alaska, and LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU! but it is too late. You’re dead. For he is the Spy — globetrotting rogue, lady killer (metaphorically) and mankiller (for real).

The newest “Meet the…” video for Team Fortress 2 has been leaked out – Meet the Spy. I can’t wait to watch it in HD, this is my favorite Meet the video yet. Read more to watch the video.

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.

Meet the Sandvich, one of the Heavies new weapons in Team Fortress 2: He was a good lunch who played by the rules, until the rules robbed him of everything he ever loved. Now he’s lettuce, tomato, cheese, bread, and a mysterious slice of meat, marching down your throat and straight to hell. He’ll satisfy your hunger. FOR REVENGE!

Meet the Sniper, one of nine playable character classes in Team Fortress 2: In his former life as a tracker of dangerous game in the unforgiving Australian outback, the Sniper would spend months by himself. Prolonged isolation taught him a valuable lesson: You don’t have to rely on other people if you never miss.

Welcome to the first edition of the Team Fortress 2 101 series, Getting Started. Here I’ll show you how to set up TF2 and go over some tips for beginners. Later editions will go more in depth on different aspects of the game, such as config files, maps and gametypes, and the different classes in the game. If you would like me to go over anything just let me know, either by posting a comment here, in the #strafeRight IRC channel, or emailing me at yankeedeuce ^at straferight ^dot com.

Meet the Scout, one of nine playable character classes in Team Fortress 2:The youngest of eight boys from the south side of Boston, the Scout learned early how to problem solve with his fists. With seven older brothers on his side, fights tended to end before the runt of the litter could maneuver into punching distance, so the Scout trained himself to run. He ran everywhere, all the time, until he could beat his pack of mad dog siblings to the fray.

By way of Shacknews comes info on the long awaited Medic updates, which Valve released at a party in San Francisco last night. The weapons will be unlocked after reaching the new achievements, 12 for the first, 24 for the second, and the last after getting all 36 achievements (including the rumored 10 million healing points). The new weapons and Valve’s descriptions are:

One of the things that customers have been consistently requesting from us a better method of finding game servers with the specific settings that they like. Some players want servers with friendly-fire on, or TF2 birthday mode, or 24/7 Dustbowl, and so on. Other players specifically want none of these, asking us how they can find servers with no changes. At the same time, we’ve watched as server operators have increasingly filled out their server names with descriptions of their custom settings.

On Thursday, February 14 at 11 am PST, all PC versions of Team Fortress 2, the class-based multiplayer action game named PC Game of the Year by Gamespy.com, will receive its largest update since the product was first made available on October 10, 2007, as part of Valve’s best-selling Orange Box compilation.

The free update includes global optimizations for networking, graphics, and player statistics, plus improvements to Source TV for tournament viewing.