What I'm Playing Now: Team Fortress 2

I've owned the Orange Box for some time, and loved Portal as well as Team Fortress 2 (you can keep HL2, thankyouverymuch). I've been reintroduced to TF2 by A Heavy Update, which has included some achievements and unlockables for heavy and some new maps. Those are fun, but what's really great is that I had apparently missed the previous Gold Rush update that included a new game type called Payload. It's a total blast either running with the payload cart, engineering turret locations to defend it, or clearing out those turrets with an Ubercharged heavy-weapons-guy.

TF2 on payload is up there with Quake1 and Starcraft as best multiplayer games available. It's only $20 on Steam, too.

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