So you’ve been taking advantage of Training Mode and Offline Practice Mode all week, and you think you’re pretty hot stuff. What better way to find out how wrong you are than to watch some pros in action at the Steam Powered User Forums’ “Battle of Both Worlds” match this week? Also known as the “Pros vs Pubbers” event, the match features a team of competitive players versus a team of highly skilled public-server players. It’s a perfect opportunity to see a whole bunch of truly great TF2 players have some truly great fun. Check it out. SourceContinue reading Three Maps. Two Teams. One Victor.→
Look Mexico has posted an alternate take of “They Only Take the Backroads.” This version of the song is more acoustic-laden than its counterpart that made it onto the band’s new album, To Bed to Battle.
Selene Vigil-Wilk, former lead vocalist of Seattle, WA-based melodic punk outfit 7 Year Bitch, has announced her solo debut. The record is titled That Was Then and is due out September 14, 2010
7 Year Bitch released two albums on indie C/Z Records before signing to Atlantic before the band split up in 1997. The band also appeared on a compilation to benefit Home Alive, an organization founded after the violent death of The Gits’ Mia Zapata, a longtime friend of the band. In early 2004 a Seattle court convicted Jesus Mezquia of first degree murder in the 1993 death of the punk singer Mia Zapata. SourceContinue reading 7 Year Bitch singer plans solo debut→
Shoot them in the arm, shoot them in the leg, shoot them in the chest – it just doesn’t matter! The only way these zombies are going down is with a head shot. Other hits will stumble them back, but only a head shot or decapitation will kill them.
This Mutation is available for Campaign Mode.
This is my Rifle
Last week’s poll results for the question; Pick your favorite Weapon Class.
The results were very similar between the PC and Xbox 360. Everyone picked the Assault Rifle class as their favorite and Auto-Shotguns next. The third and fourth choices are where the two platforms differed. Xbox users preferred Melee weapons and then Sniper Rifles and PC users went with Sniper Rifles then Melee weapons. Is this where the controller Vs. mouse/keyboard makes a difference?
The rest of the field in order of popularity: Shotguns, Grenade Launcher, SMG, and Pistols.
Pick your Mutation
It’s time to pick your favorite Mutation! Vote for next week’s Encore Mutation.
Last Man On Earth, Chain Saw Massacre, Room For One, or Headshot!
Also in This Update
We have the first of our planned Versus Changes. These changes will appear on the PC and later on the Xbox 360.
While not removing Defibrillators, we have made some changes to them. We scaled dynamic Defibs based on map length. This means unless the Defib was expressly set by the level designer to have more, the Director will only spawn them on a long map. The Director will also cap the number to one per map.
Using the Defibrillator is no longer free; there is now a 25 point scoring penalty for using a Defib. That means each time you use one, you will have 25 points removed from your final score. Will your revived Survivor make it far enough to be worth it?
Health kits will also be less numerous as we have removed the Director’s dynamic Pill conversion. Previously if the first team was injured, the Director would spawn First Aid Kits instead of Pills for both teams. Now the Director will always just spawn Pills.
The Jockey received some minor buffs. His damage per second was increased and we removed his damage delay.
On May 27th, 2007, seminal California punk band Good Riddance took the stage for what would be the final time in band’s 12+ year career. Now, some three years after that fateful night, the band has provided fans with one last “hurrah” by culling together 21 of their best, rarest, and unreleased songs to be released this July on their long-time home, Fat Wreck Chords. Punknews interviewer Sean Jain had a chance to speak with singer/songwriter Russ Rankin about the collection, the legacy of Good Riddance, the title of the album, Capricorn One, and what the future holds for Rankin, Good Riddance, and Rankin’s other band, Only Crime.
Fat Mike and Spike Slawson participated in an interview with a German magazine after performing at the Ruhrpott Rodeo 2009 in Hünxe with Me First and The Gimme Gimmes. Both Spike and Mike talked about the wonderful experience of being booed by 35,000 people, being a prison punk, Paris Hilton, racist soul music and who should own Bavaria. It’s definitely NSFW.
Fat Wreck Chords has confirmed plans for an October release from None More Black. The band will be releasing their new album, Icons, on that date. The record is their first since This Is Satire in 2006. The band has been recording on Philadelphia with engineer/producer Will Yipp.
We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below: 
