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Every now and then I find a piece of news that makes me glad I’m a PC gamer. Today Valve announced that the Xbox 360 version of Team Fortress 2 will be getting the updates, that us PC gamers have had for a while now, “later this year.” The update will include all the new guns, achievements, maps and game modes. As if the wait wasn’t bad enough, Microsoft is making Valve charge money for the update.

Currently no price has been set, but Valve has stated that they wanted to keep is as low as possible. In all reality, expect something in the $10 range.

There has been no word on if the update will make it’s way to the PS3.

Now I don’t mean to gloat, but the PC never gets more love that consoles do. Us PC gamers always have to wait longer for games to come out on our chosen platform, and when they do arrive, they turn out to be crappy PS2 ports. So please forgive me if you are a Xbox 360 TF2 player.

Read: Team Fortress 2 Updates Coming To Xbox 360 Later This Year.

Yesterday I posted a news item about next week’s Team Fortress 2 update and the changes it will bring, including new weapons for the Heavy class. Today Valve announced the first of the Heavy’s new weapons, the KGB. KGB stands for the”Killing Gloves of Boxing,” and Valve goes on to explain: “Any time a Heavy kills an enemy with the K.G.B he receives five seconds of guaranteed critical hits. This crit-boost can be used to punch and kill further enemies, extending the boost time. Alternatively, the Heavy can switch to another weapon and use the boost to take out an enemy at range. The Heavy’s slow movement speed, and the K.G.B’s slower swing speed, make it a risky prospect.”

Also included in the announcement is the list of new Achievements for the Heavy. Valve is still keeping their lips seals when it comes to details on how they are obtained. Just glancing over the names, a few of my favorties are: “Iron Kurtain,” “Party Loyalty,” “Division of Labor,” and “Communist Mani-Fisto.” As someone with a somewhat morbid facination with the U.S.S.R., mainly stemming from 80’s movies like Red Dawn, I absolutely love these Achievements. I can only hope there is one for only playing on the red team.

Read: The Killing Gloves of Boxing.

If you guys are anything like me, you just can’t get enough Team Fortress 2. Valve revealed, via their blog, that the next update will deal with the Heavy Weapons Guy. The guys over at Valve posted an article discussing the thinking process that is involved in coming up with achievements as well as new weapons. Valve went so far as to ask for help thinking up stuff for the Heavy.

According to the blog post, the goal of the Heavy’s update is to, “Make the Heavy more viable when he has no Medic to pair with.” Valve even release a list of constraints and extra things to consider so that gamers could help out.

The list of constraints is after the jump. Continued…

There’s no question that the star of Valve’s Orange Box was Portal, for me at least. That’s why I’m sure that it comes as no surprise that Valve is planning more Portal content.

As to what this content is, I am not sure. However Doug Lombardi, Valve’s marketing director, said: “There’ll be more Portal, for sure. But the details of that, to be honest, we’re still working out.”

Personally, I would prefer a Portal 2 rather than just more puzzles. I’m tching to know more about our hero and what happened to GLaDOS. Hopefully this time around, the cake won’t be a lie…
Read: More Portal Coming (Eventually).