Two new maps for Valve's Team Fortress 2 will hopefully arrive within the next two months, the studio has informed Shacknews.

One of the new arenas is a remake of Team Fortress Classic's Badlands map, with an emphasis on more vertically-oriented gameplay due to the presence of control points on towering spires.

"Our estimate is that both these maps should be out within the next 2 months," Valve employee Robin Walker told Shacknews. "We expect to ship other new content before that."
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As if The Orange Box weren't already the best value in gaming, those who have yet to make the $50 plunge can get an even better deal through Valve's Steam service. For a mere $75 gamers can purchase Orange Box and 19 additional titles.

If you already have The Orange Box then you can still get some more Half-Life goodness by downloading the game's main tune, "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coultan at Amazon.com. The entire album is discounted by about $2, available at Amazon for $7.99.
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Dec 12, 2007 Valve Software is set to release new maps for Team Fortress 2, the team-based multiplayer sequel featured in The Orange Box. Shacknews reports that the developer plans to release the maps individually for PC and in a map pack for TF2 on Xbox 360. As yet there's been no mention of the maps releasing for the PS3 version. Quite what the maps are and precisely when they'll be released also has yet to be announced. In related news, a patch for Team Fortress 2 on Xbox 360 that ... » Read More

Dec 10, 2007 Valve's art director on Team Fortress 2 reckons games have a long way to go when it comes to art style. "I think video games are at such infancy in terms of art style, actually developing it. We're dealing with 4000 years, really, of art and conceptual design," Moby Francke told Gamasutra. "For it really not to be utilized, and for the industry to basically dwell in a certain type of genre, which has been around the 1980s up to present time - it's pretty much all they're ... » Read More

Oct 10, 2007 Here we go again. Valve effortlessly displaying its rapier wit and sublime touch for character, with the fourth 'Meet the...' video feature from Team Fortress 2. This time it's the Demoman who's ready for his close up and personal monologue. And reet funny it is too, like. We've been playing The Orange Box all day, from Team Fortress 2's chaotic action to Portal's deliciously atmospheric brainwrangling. This movie just about puts the cherry right on the top of the cake. Speaking ... » Read More

Oct 9, 2007 The Orange Box goes live at 12:00 am Pacific Time on Oct 10, and 8:00 am in the UK. If you're on the beta now, prepare to own some noobs when the great unwashed come flooding in. And if you haven't preordered, you're going to need a headstart. Either way, it's time to brush up on a few of the lesser-known factors in the TF2 ... » Read More

Opposable Thumbs (Ars Technica's Journal) have shown their love for Team Fortress 2 a few times, and have also noted the game's surprising stability for a beta. Those remarks haven't been sitting well with some people, it turns out.

Opposable Thumbs received an e-mail from a reader who wanted to talk about some fairly catastrophic error experiences:
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RPS can confirm that friendly fire will indeed be removed from Team Fortress 2 in the update rolling out in a couple of hours.

Lead developer Robin Walker told us that he did indeed email German forum Gamestar to say that the mode was never meant to be left in.

"We shipped it by mistake, as it wasn't something we wanted to be a part of the game. We haven't built the game around having it in, and it just stops it from working," explains Walker. Breaking both the Spy and the Pyro, the TF2 team decided that friendly fire prevented the game from being any fun to play, and it will soon be gone completely.
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Sept 14, 2007 Team Fortress 2's six maps that will ship with the game are previewed in ye olde news reel style footage that's hit YouTube. On display - 2Fort, Granary, Dustbowl, Well, Hydro and GravelPit. We have it on good authority that these movies are shown before you play the map if you're brand new to the level. To give you a brief tour of the level's layout, like. Anyway, get viewing. Courtesy of ... » Read More

Sept 12 2007 Why is it that so many games fail spectacularly to make us laugh? 'Cos they lack witty talent, skilled writing and expert direction, probably - vital virtues that Valve has in spades, illustrated especially well during its recent mirthsome vids for Team Fortress 2, repeated again to good effect in this Engineer introduction. Once more, we have a solid, rounded and appealing character. And a tightly scripted monologue paired with a perfectly chosen voice actor. This softly-spoken ... » Read More

Sept 10, 2007 One of Team Fortress 2's nine playable classes, Engineer, takes centre stage in new screenshots from the online blaster, along with his trusty deployable sentry gun. The shots actually act as a tease for a forthcoming “Meet the Engineer” trailer from Valve that features the wrench-wielding defence ... » Read More

Aug 24, 2007 We've got another snippet of footage from Valve's much anticipated Team Fortress 2 that introduces us to our second troop class - The Soldier. Take a gander, and what's immediately apparent that Team Fortress not only has the playful aesthetic of CGI animation, it also shares a similar off-kilter brand of humour. Were not going to ruin it for you, suffice to say it is actually rather smart and wouldn't be too far out of place on an episode of Futurama. It's also a nice little ... » Read More

Aug 20, 2007 This week Valve plans to release a new trailer focusing on Team Fotress 2's rocket launcher-wielding class the Soldier. Presumably we'll get similar trailers for all of the game's classes before TF2 releases. Check out the three screenshots we've uploaded by clicking the Images tab. They provide a sneak glimpse of the forthcoming Soldier movie, although as you'll see two of the screenshots are pretty blurred - a bit of a shame ... » Read More

Last night, Valve representatives confirmed to Shacknews that the studio's upcoming trio of Source-powered games will ship for all announced platforms on October 9, 2007. The suite, sold at retail and through Valve's Steam download service, will consist of the shooter sequel Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the team-based multiplayer game Team Fortress 2, and the action/puzzle game Portal. Valve is handling development of the games on PC and Xbox 360, with EA UK's Chertsey, Surrey office bringing the titles to PlayStation 3.
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Valve Software says cross-platform support is in place for Xbox 360-PC play for Team Fortress 2, after revealing it was technically feasible back in March. "Technically it's done," the developer's Doug Lombardi told IGN of Xbox 360-PC play; Valve's Robin Walker then followed up to reassure that controller issues won't be, well, issues, explaining that staffers who worked on the Half-Life series on Xbox are working on TF2 on Xbox 360. "... we did the Xbox port of Half-Life internally, and we ... » Read More

A trickle of tantalizing new information on Valve's almost decade-long delayed Team Fortress 2 has been revealed in German gaming magazine PC Action.

A translation over at the Halflife2.net forums provides a summary of article, which includes details on TF2's new gameplay modes, maps, weapons, and classes - not to mention somewhat down to earth comments on the competiton's class structures by Valve's Robin Walker himself.

Of noteworthy mention however was the possibility of cross platform multiplayer between the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of TF2.

In short, while technically feasible, Valve is still uncertain whether it will make it into the final game - possibly even being up to the likes of Microsoft and Sony to get the wheels in motion for it to happen in the first place.
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Alright so there's no screenshots to offer but Valve has given us two pieces of fresh concept art from Team Fortress 2, which is enough to keep us quiet until we get up close and personal with the game at GDC next week. In case you're wondering, the two pieces of art show the different levels of the sentry gun, which for you TF rookies out there is constructed by the wrench-wielding engineer ... » Read More

Following the announcement of The Black Box and The Orange Box release date and content, Valve Software has provided an update on the status of Team Fortress 2, the long-anticipated sequel to Team Fortress Classic, a team and class based multiplayer first-person shooter.
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Team Fortress 2 fans have been waiting forever for their team-based messiah to arrive - and by golly, we really do believe it will finally appear early next year. The latest evidence is a fresh video, which gives a fun showcase to six of the nine classes in TF2 and their unique skills. Hit the Movies tab above to check it out. Team Fortress 2 will be bundled along with Half-Life 2: Episode Two and the first-person puzzler Portal when it launches early next year. Three games, one release, and ... » Read More

Last week, in his signature ho-hum fashion, Gabe Newell (boss of renegade independent developer Valve) dropped the biggest bomb of publisher Electronic Arts' entire press event: the return of Team Fortress 2 for the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PS3. First announced over five years ago, TF2 has been missing-in-action ever since. Newell shared a teaser trailer that marked the return of the seminal class-based team shooter. It showed that Valve has completely scrapped the gritty, realistic look of ... » Read More