Steam trading beta will let you swap TF2 items for spare Steam games
The Team Fortress 2 hat economy is in full swing, with players bartering, backstabbing and frantically crafting their way to the best items. The carnage is about to spread beyond TF2. The TF2 blog announces that the Steam trading beta is now live, and will let you swap Team Fortress 2 items for unredeemed gift games on Steam.
One of the pleasant side effects of the enormous Steam sales is that you’ll often buy a bundle that contains a copy of a game you already own. Most of the time you’re able to gift this spare game to anyone with a Steam account. The Steam trading beta now lets you exchange a Team Fortress 2 item, say, a tower of hats, for one of those spares.
If you want, you can also buy a new game purely for the purpose of trading. As long as you don’t add the game to your Steam library, it’s swappable, and this is just the beginning. The trading system looks set to items in other games as well.
Valve announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, playable at PAX
As rumor confirmations go, this one’s pretty quick. Valve just issued a press release announcing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a standalone release that seems to be a full update of Counter-Strike: Source with new weapons, maps, matchmaking, leaderboards, and more. No screenshots have been released, but from Valve’s language, it seems like more of an “anniversary edition” of CS:S that dresses up the existing content than a full-on sequel. CS:GO will also be released on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Read the full press release within. Read More..
Last Updated on Friday, 12 August 2011 18:16
Team Fortress 2 gets Quake, Fallout and Skyrim items
Ever wondered what the Heavy would look like wearing the Nord’s helmet from Skyrim? Good news! Kotaku reports that Team Fortress 2 has been updated with new weapons and items from a range of Bethesda’s biggest games to celebrate the start of QuakeCon 2011.
There’s no news on whether there will be a special way to earn the new items, more will hopefully be revealed when QuakeCon kicks off tonight with a keynote speech from id co-founder John Carmack.
