Team Fortress 2 has been one of Valve Software’s most enduring hits. The game pits players against one another in online combat using different cartoonish characters, and it’s available for both Mac and PC through Valve’s popular Steam game service. Now it’s available for free.
“There’s no catch! Play as much as you want, as long as you like,” says Valve.
Texas native Libe Goad resides in New York City and has spent the past decade covering technology and video games for publications including Blender, PC Magazine, Bust, Seventeen and Sync.
Libe is currently the Editor-in-Chief of AOL's award-winning Games.com group, covering the growing social and casual games industry. Previously, she reported on consumer technology news for PC Magazine and other Ziff Davis properties and was the Editor-at-Large for gaming enthusiast site HappyPuppy.com. In 1999, Goad founded the one of the first women-targeted gaming/technology websites, GameGal.com.
A semi-regular TV talking head on CNBC, Bloomberg News, ABC, CBS, NBC and others, Libe has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Games journalists by Next-Generation, and has served as a judge for Spike TV's VGA awards, the E3 Game Critics Awards, and Independent Games Festival Awards. 
A resident of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Peter has spent more than fifteen years writing about games and the game industry. For a decade Peter was senior editor for Macworld magazine, writing online news and covering the Apple game beat in Macworld's Game Room column.
Peter is currently executive editor for The Loop, an Apple news and analysis site founded by former Macworld editors. He's cohost of Angry Mac Bastards, a weekly podcast that viciously eviscerates some of what passes for Apple-related news and analysis in the tech blogosphere.
Peter is also a freelance technology journalist and reviewer whose words can be found in Macworld, Mac|Life, MacUser, MacFormat and Tap! Magazine.
“There’s no catch! Play as much as you want, as long as you like,” says Valve.
Days after publishing free-to-play games from other developers on its Steam service, Valve has made free one of its most popular games, Team Fortress 2.
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Libe is currently the Editor-in-Chief of AOL's award-winning Games.com group, covering the growing social and casual games industry. Previously, she reported on consumer technology news for PC Magazine and other Ziff Davis properties and was the Editor-at-Large for gaming enthusiast site HappyPuppy.com. In 1999, Goad founded the one of the first women-targeted gaming/technology websites, GameGal.com.
A semi-regular TV talking head on CNBC, Bloomberg News, ABC, CBS, NBC and others, Libe has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Games journalists by Next-Generation, and has served as a judge for Spike TV's VGA awards, the E3 Game Critics Awards, and Independent Games Festival Awards.
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Peter is currently executive editor for The Loop, an Apple news and analysis site founded by former Macworld editors. He's cohost of Angry Mac Bastards, a weekly podcast that viciously eviscerates some of what passes for Apple-related news and analysis in the tech blogosphere.
Peter is also a freelance technology journalist and reviewer whose words can be found in Macworld, Mac|Life, MacUser, MacFormat and Tap! Magazine.
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Team Fortress 2 has been one of Valve Software’s most enduring hits. The game pits players against one another in online combat using different cartoonish characters, and it’s available for both Mac and PC through Valve’s popular Steam game service. Now it’s available for free.
“There’s no catch! Play as much as you want, as long as you like,” says Valve.
Team Fortress 2 pits two teams of players against each other in online, militaristic combat. Players choose from nine classes like Scout, Soldier, Heavy, Engineer and more. Team Fortress 2 has been perennial popular since its 2007 release in part because of its over-the-top humor and constantly evolving and improving gameplay.
If you’ve already paid for Team Fortress 2, don’t feel like you’ve been ripped off - you now have a “premium account.” The premium account has access to extra features, such as rare and cosmetic items that you get through random item drops. You can also store more items in your backpack (300 slots, compared to 50 slots in the free game) and have better trading and crafting abilities.
The move comes only days after Valve began offering free-to-play titles from other developers, and after it confirmed plans to do its own free-to-play title.
Speculation ran rampant as to what title Valve planned to do as free-to-play, though gamers quickly zeroed in on Team Fortress 2, which has developed a “microtransactional” economy of its own ever since an update which added a store - the Mann Co. - which enables players to buy, trade and customize inventory items in TF2 using a “Steam Wallet.”
The move also happens concurrently with Valve’s “Uber Update” for Team Fortress 2, which adds a ton of new maps, items and weapons to the game.
To play Team Fortress 2, all you need is to download the Steam client and run it on a PC or Mac that supports TF2. Check Steam for details.
“There’s no catch! Play as much as you want, as long as you like,” says Valve.
Team Fortress 2 pits two teams of players against each other in online, militaristic combat. Players choose from nine classes like Scout, Soldier, Heavy, Engineer and more. Team Fortress 2 has been perennial popular since its 2007 release in part because of its over-the-top humor and constantly evolving and improving gameplay.
If you’ve already paid for Team Fortress 2, don’t feel like you’ve been ripped off - you now have a “premium account.” The premium account has access to extra features, such as rare and cosmetic items that you get through random item drops. You can also store more items in your backpack (300 slots, compared to 50 slots in the free game) and have better trading and crafting abilities.
The move comes only days after Valve began offering free-to-play titles from other developers, and after it confirmed plans to do its own free-to-play title.
Speculation ran rampant as to what title Valve planned to do as free-to-play, though gamers quickly zeroed in on Team Fortress 2, which has developed a “microtransactional” economy of its own ever since an update which added a store - the Mann Co. - which enables players to buy, trade and customize inventory items in TF2 using a “Steam Wallet.”
The move also happens concurrently with Valve’s “Uber Update” for Team Fortress 2, which adds a ton of new maps, items and weapons to the game.
To play Team Fortress 2, all you need is to download the Steam client and run it on a PC or Mac that supports TF2. Check Steam for details.
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