Word from Stomped @ E3 is that Valve will not be showing the highly anticipated Team Fortress 2 at E3 this year. As reason Sierra gave was that Valve is concentrating on getting the Dreamcast version of Half-Life finished. Whatcha think of that?

Nate Newton (heh) sent along this link to a french page, Joystick.fr gabbing a bit with Gabe Newell of Valve Software. It's an audio interview so you need a Real or Fake player. They cover all the Valve stuff currently known (TF2, Powerplay, etc)

3DNews.net has a TeamFortress2 interview with Valve Software posted. It's gameplay oriented which should make a lot of TF players happy to read, pretty good info in there.

The guys at TFTribune have a bit of information from Valve Software on the upcoming Half-Life patch that will be changing the netcode completely to use as a test-bed for the TF2 netcode. Now we can not only ogle at TeamFortress2 screenshots, we can ogle at TeamFortress2 netcode.

[Valve Software]: The new netcode dramatically decreases the amount of bandwidth used per player, which will definitely help in large games. The main barrier to increasing match sizes then is finding maps that are fun with that many players - probably cz2 and badlands would be a good start.

I just moved this to the top of the page for the evening since it's the most interesting thing of the day. I just got a hold of 8 more screenshots of TeamFortress2 which were apparently intended for print magazines but never got published. I've got 800x600 prints as well as links to 1024x768 images at the bottom. You can check all of them out here.

[shot1] [shot2] [shot3] ... more screenshot

PlanetFortress plays host to a new Robin Walker interview talking about TeamFortress2. (Most anticipated game here according to you guys on that poll) Word is that they may test some of the TF2 code in a Half-Life public patch.

Gamewire has a new article taking a look at Team Fortress2 and how they think it will change online gaming.

Steve posted yesterday about the delay of Team Fortress 2, because of the text "due in late 2000" on the official TF2 site. However, the text since then has gone from

...from Valve's upcoming multiplayer title due in late 2000.

To saying:

...from Valve's upcoming multiplayer title due in 2000.

Probably some miscommunication between Valve and Sierra, or was a little early to post this already? Thanks to Jon Forwick, who was the first to email this in.

The official TeamFortress2 website has been updated quietly by Sierra with word that the Valve Software game seems to be delayed even more. Not content with outselling Quake, Valve is now out to beat Daikatana by out-delaying! Thanks TF Tribune

...from Valve's upcoming multiplayer title due in late 2000.

Been a while since we saw any of these; Planetfortress has two new Team Fortress 2 screenshots. Cool stuff as always.

I didnt know where the heck to link this thing, check out this TeamFortress claymation deal by TigerBean which is just... strange.

Half-Life Express has a short Q&A with Valve's Erik Johnson and Robin Walker, talking about various parts of Team Fortress 2.

The DailyRadar features a new preview of Team Fortress2 from Valve Software which seems to consistently have the release date pushed back lately. Here are the latest shots to be released: [shot1] [shot2] [shot3] as well as a few older ones: [shot1] [shot2] [shot3] [shot4] [shot5] [shot6]

A TeamFortress2 interview with Mike Harrington for your afternoon reading pleasure. If you're feeling saucy check out the spanish version of the interview as well.

In response to that TF2 article I posted yesterday, Sierra has put out a statement on AVault saying that TF2 is not in fact a year away, but slated for "due out next year" or something. Well here's the quote:

[Note: Although we were originally told Team Fortress 2 was ''a year off' from release, Sierra has amended this statement to say the game is ''due out next year.]

Well, the Adrenaline Vault is reporting that Valve has contracted Billy Zelsnack (the guy who was doing the engine for the now defunct Prax War @ Rebel Boat Rocker) to work on the engine for Team Fortress 2. This is cool and all, but here is what worries me:

Now the Adrenaline Vault has confirmed with Sierra and Valve that Zelsnack has been contracted to assist the Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms development team, and is doing engine enhancements for the next-generation Half-Life technology being used for the title. Since the online-oriented 3D action game is at least a year off, as a Sierra public relations representative mentioned Tuesday when contacted about Zelsnack’s responsibilities on the project, both companies turned down our request for an interview. But having him elbow-deep in the code could mean very good things for the product.

Saw over at Blue's Zoo that Strategy Gaming Online has an posted an interview with Robin Walker of Valve Software, talking about, believe it or not, Team Fortress 2. They talk about mapping, scripting, and the commander role (which could be the one and only thing that would get me to play TF2 :)

LE OUAIBE JOYSTICK has recorded a talk with Valve's Robin Walker talking about Team Fortress2. They also have a chat with Robe Pardo of Blizzard on that Warcraft3 thing. Thanks Blue

Next-Generation has posted a new piece on Team Fortress2 talking with Robin Walker of Valve Software about their plans to take the multiplayer FPS genre into a new age. Thanks Blue

TFC Players need look no further than this page for a list of a bunch of nifty Team Fortress Classic strategies.