I’m back, here’s a few things I’ve noted in the past week.

Valve is most likely making a DotA clone. Because the other two clones aren’t enough.

Then just as I back, Robin gets interviewed by PCgamer, and he reveals the polycount update will be coming out with item trading and a new game mode. Next month. Blast.

I guess we’ll just have to stare at some videos while we wait.

Well the polycount winners have been announced, but as usual the page is getting hammered so hard even getting any response from the server is difficult. Valve sort of saw this coming, so they linked to the individual threads of the winners. That are on the same dying server.

That’s okay though, you can see the winners on the steam forums in threads like these.

Nice update and all, but I just want to see the weapons stats now.

Also this little quip here

Out of the 70 or so entries that Valve received, Robin tells me that nearly half of the entries are of a high enough quality to be shipped in future updates without much work needed on Valve side.

Made me laugh. Why bother working on content when you’ve got a community just itching to do it for free?

The blog update isn’t much, TF2wiki has moved and is now the official TF2 wiki. There’s just a small controversy over this auction that happened. Apparently the owner sold off the old domain before it transferred to Valve, and made a lot of money. I didn’t understand much of what happened as I am not good with computor.

Cobra posted these links in the last article, speculating that the engie update could come out on July 1st.  It could happen, but I think a more probable outcome would be the engie update coinciding with the polycount contest winners being announced. Valve plans to release a weapons for each class, and so they’d avoid a lot of the class madness usually associated with an update.