75% Off The Potato Sack Pack Through Steam
Scott Rose - Monday, April 4, 2011
Valve are currently selling “The Potato Sack Pack”, A pack which consists of Thirteen Indie Games for 75% off through their Digital Download Service Steam for $38.72 USD.
The Potato Sack Pack Includes:
- 1… 2… 3… KICK IT!
- AaAaAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- AudioSurf
- BIT.TRIP BEAT
- Cogs
- Defense Grid: The Awakening
- Killing Floor
- RUSH
- Super Meat Boy
- The Ball
- The Wonderful End of the World
- Toki Tori
Plus as an added bonus for those who purchase The Potato Sack Pack (or own all 13 games on your Steam Account) you will receive a Potato Hat in-game for Team Fortress 2. (The Potato Hat will be available after April 5th, 2011)
If you are not interested in purchasing the pack, the games are individually on sale for 50% off the regular price.
Source: Steam
Team Fortress 2: Japan Relief Aid Update
Scott Rose - Wednesday, March 30, 2011
According to the official Team Fortress 2 Blog, gamers have raised a total of $300,000 for the Japan Relief Aid from in-game purchases.
“Wow. Seriously, people, WOW. We knew you had it in you, but we’re still amazed you’ve raised over $300,000 so far.
Take a BOW, TF2 community — because that is an incredible, frankly astounding, amount of money from a dedicated number of gamers, to one heck of a lot of people in some real need right now. Anytime someone gives you guff about something negative in gaming, you go ahead and point them to this post, because here’s some late-breaking damn news: they are wrong and gamers are generous and awesome.”
If you want to grab a new item in-game, and at the same time donate towards the TF2 Japan Relief Aid, the following items are still available in the Mann Co. Store:
- Humanitarian’s Hachimaki – $7.99 USD
- Benefactor’s Kanmuri – $19.99 USD
- Magnanimous Monarch – $99.99 USD
These items will be available for purchase until April 6th, 2011.
Source: Team Fortress 2 Blog
Team Fortress 2: Japan Relief Aid
Scott Rose - Thursday, March 24, 2011
Valve have today announced that they will be making available through the Mann Co. store for a limited time Three New Hats, and Two “Special Noisemakers” with the proceeds of the sales going towards the Japan Relief Aid.
The three items that Valve mention on their official blog range from $7.99 USD to $99.99 USD:
- Humanitarian’s Hachimaki – $7.99 USD
- Benefactor’s Kanmuri – $19.99 USD
- Magnanimous Monarch – $99.99 USD
These items will be available for purchase from Today until the 6th of April 2011.
Source: Team Fortress 2 Blog
TF2 Update – More Hats!
wob - Thursday, January 28, 2010
Added 3 new hats that can be worn by any class.
- “Towering Pillar of Hats”
- “Noble Amassment of Hats”
- “Modest Pile of Hat”
Added Propaganda contest winners’ hats for First Place, First Runner-up, and Second Runner-up.
Added “Edit Loadout” button to the class menu.
Changed the main menu background to randomly use the Red, Blue, and Soldier/Demo background images.
Fixed Snipers being able to shoot enemies through gates.
Fixed Linux servers not properly reconnecting to Steam when they lose their connection.
Fixed stickies being destructible before they’re stuck to something.
Fixed the return progress bar above a dropped flag not animating if the return time on the flag is less than 30 seconds.
Fixed the CTF HUD not properly handling flags being disabled/enabled during the round.
Fixed player health panels sometimes using the wrong animations for buffed or low health values.
Updated the net_showevents convar to be marked as a cheat.
Updated the main menu news buttons to direct players to the most recent TF2 update and the TF2 blog.
Updated Italian localization strings.
Updated the custom TF2 fonts with Polish characters.
Updated CP_Gorge.
- Added more cover outside of the initial BLU spawn area.
- Added a forward spawn for the BLU team after Cap1 is captured.
- Added another access point to the upper level from the front of the RED base
- Added more cover in the room just before Cap2.
- Decreased RED team’s respawn time while they own Cap1.
- Fixed a few areas where players would sometimes become stuck.
