This is kind of cool, though slightly sledgehammer to the fourth wall type of deal. Sam and Max are coming out with another episode, and to celebrate that Valve is releasing a bunch of Sam and Max items with the purchase of the new Sam and Max game, The Penal Zone. The first you can see above being Max’s severed head. The rest are as follows. Check out the whole post at the Team Fortress 2 blog.

Max’s Severed Head

It’s not often you’re given the gift of a beloved character’s decapitated head by the very studio responsible for that character. Still, we’re not complaining. It’s soft, it wicks away moisture in the heat of battle, it highlights our eyes. It’s got us thinking about all the other game characters we could be wearing around as clothes.

Max’s Pistol

Who wouldn’t want to squeeze off a couple rounds with the murder weapon of choice of a sociopathic cartoon rabbit? Probably quite a lot of people, when you get right down to it. Luckily, those people are all well-adjusted contributors to society with no police records, spotless credit ratings and few unresolvable moral failings. They also probably have no interest in playing TF2, so that means more murder-rabbit gun shooting for the rest of us.

Sam’s Revolver

This might look like an ordinary revolver, until you realize that it helps a talking dog solve crimes. How many crimes has YOUR dog solved lately? And let’s face it, his revolver kind of sucks too. Man, we want to talk about this gun more, but we can’t get over how much your dog sucks.

Hey guys, I just wanted to link to three videos that are pretty cool, all done with the Team Fortress 2 characters and whatnot. Check ‘em out inside.

Check it out guys, there is a Team Fortress 2 special going on now through November 2nd. There is some new hats involved as well as some steam achievements, and you’ll also be treated to haunted maps and exploding pumpkins. Also, you have less than two hours from the beginning of this post to purchase TF2 for 2.50$. That’s right, only two dollars and fifty cents. Its normally, what, like twenty bucks? You’d be crazy not to pick this up, but hurry, ’cause it’ll end soon. Enjoy the Halloween weekend. Check out the official post on their blog here.

While Left 4 Dead 2 is garnering all kinds of flak, Team Fortress 2 has a humble Halloween update. I love Team Fortress for this kind of stuff. It just makes it feel like the game is organic, and that I’ll keep wanting to go back in for more. Also, I’m not expecting anything from TF2, so its all better than anticipated, you know? I’m sure I’ll see you in game for some spooky fun.

Hey guys, check this out. Maybe you were like me in wondering how the heck you’re supposed to get the sandvich from the heavy for the scout achievement. I know the savvy among you must know that you can get it some other means, but have a look at the newest update. It not only includes the sandvich having an alt-fire which allows you to drop the sandvich, but a slew of other updates. Read the whole list of changes inside.

• Alt-fire on the Sandvich now drops sandviches
• A single sandvich can be dropped at a time. Dropping the sandvich removes it from the Heavy
• A Heavy can regain his sandvich by collecting a healthkit while already being at full health
• Eating a sandvich using the taunt method now heals a Heavy to full health
• Dropped sandviches heal 50% of the collector’s health

So while we wait for the next page of the Team Fortress 2 update I thought I would post a reaction to day two, which can be found here.

So Vicis, Syndic and I are talking about a Star Wars RPG podcast when all of a sudden I find this update posting for Team Fortress 2. Apparently the new update will have hats.