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Surprise! Team Fortress 2 Spy Class Is Also Getting An Update [Valve]
Kotaku — ... thinks he's turned you into nothing but a memory, then you can stab him in the back. The Cloak and Dagger, on the other hand—or wrist, I suppose—will render you permanently invisible. Permanently, as long as the Cloak and Dagger is charged that is. And it can only be charged by standing still. Check the official update for additional details. Really, it's another gorgeous update loaded with in-jokes and maybe even a hint or two about the next update. The Spy Update [Team Fortress] ...

Sniper Spy Update Day 4
Rock, Paper, ShotgunWell there you go then. More in a few minutes. Related stories: Portal: Only 20 Minutes Long Sniper Update Day 3: Things Get Mysterious Team Fortress 2 Art Design ...

Day 4 of the Sniper Spy update
Gaming Nexus — ... NEWS - You got to love Valve and their sense of humor. It looks like we're also getting a Spy update to go along with the Sniper update for Team Fortress 2. So, we're going to have servers full of spies and snipers for a bit when this thing comes out. Check out the two items the spy is going to get in the next update. First up is a Dead Ringer spy watch which will cloak you and projects a hologram of your dead self as long as you take a non-lethal hit. You'll be cloaked for 8 seconds so you can get away or sneak up behind the guy who killed you. The other item ...

TF2 Spy update sneaks up on Sniper update, makes stabby
Destructoid — ... Oh, that crafty bastard. Team Fortress 2 fans have doubtless been anticipating the update to the game's Sniper class, but it seems that Valve has pulled a rather fitting twist. Today it has been revealed that the Scout update has been snuck upon by the Spy, launching a surprise attack and suddenly appearing out of nowhere. ...

Team Fortress 2 sniper update to include . . . a spy update?
Big Download Blog — ... Looks like Valve is going to make us very happy very soon with their next major Team Fortress 2 update. We though the unlockable items would be all about the Sniper class. As it turns out the Spy class will be getting some new items of its ...

TF2 2 Sniper Spy Update
Blue's News — The Day 4 Team Fortress 2 Sniper Update offers a curveball, describing two new items to be added to the Spy's arsenal in the upcoming Team Fortress 2 patch. These are two new watches, one which will feign the Spy's death after a non lethal hit allowing him to sneak off under the cloak of cloakiness. The other offers a cloaking recharge while standing still, allowing the judicious spy to remain constantly invisible.

TF2 Update week days 3-4
Ripten Video Game Blog — ... , a shield to go on the Sniper’s back and protect him from spies (giving them a shock and making their knife unusable for a period of time). We’ve also been completely fooled by Valve, who have revealed that the Spy will also be part of the update. ...

Team Fortress 2's Spy murders Sniper, both receive updates
Joystiq — We thought Valve had straight up flipped their melon (whatever that means) when they started announcing the upcoming changes to Team Fortress 2's hawk-eyed class, the Sniper. A bow and arrow? Okay, fine -- but a shield that prevents you from getting backstabbed? Why not just allow them to turn on God Mode? However, our worries were assuaged by the latest revelation for the Sniper update, in which said Sniper gets Julius Caesar'd by a Spy -- the proud recipient of yet another TF2 update. The ...

'Team Fortress 2' Meet The Spy Video: Mom Porn Revealed
G4 TV - TheFeed — ... Valve intros the clever and deadly Spy class from the new Team Fortress 2 sniper/spy combo update coming May 21 for the PC. Try your best at guessing who he is. Hint: He's not the briefcase. ...

Valve shows off the latest TF2 Achievements, hilarity ensues
Destructoid — ... Alongside putting out a high-def version of "Meet the Spy," the company detailed the Steam Achievements for Thursday's Spy/Sniper Update earlier today. As we've come to expect, the Achievements are chock full of references to pop culture and movies, or are otherwise puntastic. ...

Valve Reveals Spy Achievements (And Owns Up To Corporate Fail) [Valve]
Kotaku — ... newest of entries for the Spy update, that leak was due to someone at Valve uploading the hilarious clip to YouTube with the wrong radio button ticked. Oops! Valve comes clean on its very un-Spy like behavior with the first "Valve Corporate Achievement." We shan't spoil. Now let's dig through the list of Achievements to see what we can see. Hmmm.... that gun silhouette in the "Diplomacy" icon looks unusual. And what's going on in that "For Your Eyes Only" Achievement? Spy Update - Day 5 [Team Fortress] ...

Act Surprised: Official HD Meet The Spy
Rock, Paper, Shotgun — ... Just a quick note to say the official version of Meet The Spy is now available on Valve’s Spy Update pages, and available to download in HD ...

TF2 Sniper Update Thursday
Blue's News — ... as a streaming clip with a high-resolution version for download. This and a list of Spy Achievements are today's installment in the run-up to the launch of the Sniper (and Spy) update, which Valve now says to expect on Thursday. There are also a couple of cute referebnces to the video leak, the "act surprised" caption to open the movie, and their Valve Corporate achievement: "UNLOCKED - Welcome to the internets: Fail to understand what 'Private' means on YouTube."

Day 5 of the TF2 update brings Spy achievements and a video
Gaming Nexus — ... NEWS - Valve's sense of humor shows again as today we have the Meet the Spy video and the Spy achievements for Team Fortress 2. The video has a subtitle in the first frame that says, "Act surprised" since it was ...

Video: TF2 Sniper Update Co-opted By The Spy!
GayGamer.net — ... Late last week, Valve started updating us on new weapons and achievement for the Sniper in Team Fortress 2. We get a few new levels, a ...

Spy achievements revealed for next Team Fortress 2 update
Big Download Blog — ... Valve has once again update its Team Fortress 2 web site with some more info about their next content update for the multiplayer shooter. This time the update is all about the achievements you can unlock while playing as the Spy character. While ...

Spy beats sniper in Team Fortress 2 updates
Fidgit Atom Feed — ... In the unfolding drama of a Team Fortress 2 game, it's just like a spy to upstage a sniper. So it goes with the latest updates for the next Team Fortress 2 patch. Assuming Valve isn't engineering the whole thing -- and I wouldn't put it past them -- it seems the "Meet the Spy" video got leaked early and lead to a revised schedule of updates. Days one, ...

TF2 Update day 5: Act surprised
Ripten Video Game Blog — ... . It’s glorious. Also today is the list of the achievements for the Spy’s unlocks (which you can see after the jump). One that is noteworthy is the “Valve corporate achievement”: “Fail to understand what ‘Private’ means on YouTube. Needless to say, it’s been achieved. ...

Meet the Spy of Team Fortress 2
1UP RSS feed — ... videos managed to leak late last week through Valve's official YouTube channel. It was meant to be officially released today, along with the new Spy Achievements, as day 5 of the Sniper/Spy update reveal. Valve's gone ahead and released it anyway with one small added bonus -- Valve gets put in its place for accidentally releasing the video ahead of time with an Achievement called "Welcome to the internets" for "Fail[ing] to understand what 'Private' means on YouTube." Whoops. ...

Spy achievements released, everyone at Valve fired
That VideoGame Blog — ... The list of Spy achievements are now up on the update site here as well as the official release of Meet The Spy. There is also an extra achievement at the bottom explaining the whole debacle which can be seen above. ...

Meet The Spy's New Hand Cannon [Team Fortress 2]
Kotaku — ... than the Spy's pearl-handled standard issue revolver, expect a slower rate of fire, as today's Team Fortress 2 Spy update indicates a required cool-down period between shots. It's bulky design comes with a bit of beauty and helps explain what yesterday's "Diplomacy" Steam Achievement is all about. Just one more day's worth of updates before the combined Spy and Sniper changes roll out. Will the Aussie rifleman have his revenge tomorrow? Spy Update - Day 5 [Team Fortress] ...

New TF2 Spy Weapon Revealed
Blue's News — The Day 6 Sniper/Spy update on the Team Fortress 2 Website introduces The Ambassador, a revolver for the Spy so big they say "put two wheels on this thing and its a cannon. Here's the description of the new unlockable weapon for the Spy that's part of Thursday's Team Fortress 2 patch: There are two sorts of men in this world: the sort with blood pouring out of a hole in their heads, and the sort holding the Ambassador. It has the ammo count of a revolver and the pinpoint accuracy of a sniper rifle, even at long range. (But remember, a gun that packs this much heat needs to ...

Third Team Fortress 2 Spy Unlockable Revealed
1UP RSS feed — ... update hits. The info page from Valve reveals that the massive gun will hold the ammo count of the Spy's regular revolver, but also comes equipped with the Sniper's rifle accuracy. However, it needs to cool down between shots, so aim will be important. ...

The Spy, Meet The Ambassador
Rock, Paper, Shotgun — ... Confused about what’s going on with Snipers and Spies and updates? Yeah, me too. Tuesday was originally thought to be the launch day for the Sniper update. Two unlocks were revealed, along with a new game mode, and then the switcheroo happened. Now it’s a Spy update, two unlocks were revealed at once, then yesterday the Meet The Spy video made an encore appearance, along with the achievement titles. Today… a Spy unlock. And it’s the pistol upgrade everyone was hoping for. ...

Final Spy update for Team Fortress 2 makes our day
Big Download Blog — ... Valve's latest Team Fortress 2 web site update reveals the third and final unlockable items for the Spy class is big. We mean really, really big. It's the new weapon they called The Ambassador and it makes us feel very lucky. According to the site the new ...

'Team Fortress 2' Spies To Get New Guns
G4 TV - TheFeed — ... When Team Fortress 2 is updated on the 21st, The Spy's Ambassador will be joined by two new Spy cloaking tools and ...

Team Fortress 2's Spy Gets A BFG
The Escapist : Latest News — Gentlemen, say bonjour to The Spy's little friend: The Ambassador, a massive revolver that packs a lethal punch and the last of The Spy's unlockables for Team Fortress 2 's upcoming Spy/Sniper update. In case you've been living under a rock (or without internet access) for the past few days: Valve pulled a fast one on all of us last week and are sneaking in a full class update for The Spy to go along with their previously announced ...

A gun Dirty Harry would be jealous of for the Spy
Gaming Nexus — ... NEWS - Today's Spy update for Team Fortress 2 is the Ambassador gun unlock. Take a look at that thing. It's got an accuracy of a sniper rifle even at long range and the ammo count of a revolver, this might be one gun that will cause me to run the opposite direction when I see a Spy coming at me. The one caveat is that it has a slow firing rate. So, it seems the Spy gets some nice toys to play with given that he has two new watches and a new gun. Now, lets see what else the Sniper gets. ...

The Spy is getting a gun with your mother engraved on it
Destructoid — ... So wait, where were we now? The next Team Fortress 2 class update, which is being put out on Steam starting Thursday of this week, is going to grant the Spy access to one seriously badass gun. Hell, from here on out, we shouldn't even call it a gun; we must only refer to it as a hand cannon, or its proper name, The Ambassador. ...

Spy achievements released, everyone at Valve fired
That VideoGame Blog — ... The list of Spy achievements are now up on the update site here as well as the official release of Meet The Spy. There is also an extra achievement at the bottom explaining the whole debacle which can be seen above. ...

Team Fortress 2 Sniper Actually Getting Urine Grenades? Yes, He Is [Sniper Update]
Kotaku — ... much to the Pyro's disappointment, I'm sure. Unfortunately, all but two employees at Valve appear to have been sacked, so we can't yet confirm that this is anything more than a teaser. We'll wait for the automatic publishing of today's update to occur before whining about what a hot mess this addition to the Sniper's arsenal will be. A fourth unlockable, a plate of steamed asparagus said to make Jarate hits crit, is still unconfirmed. The Sniper Update - Day 7 [Team Fortress] ...

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Sniper & Spy Updates Online, TF2 Free WeekendRock, Paper, Shotgun
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Yes, it’s real . It was an April fool’s joke, and now it’s real. Snipers will be throwing jars of piss around. Jarate, when it spills on an opponent, grants 35% less damage resistance (they die faster) and, in the case of the Spy, shorts out the cloak. Jarate can be washed ...
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New TF2 Sniper/Spy UpdateBlue's News
Today's Team Fortress 2 - The Sniper vs. Spy Update further paves the way for the upcoming Sniper/Spy update for Team Fortress 2, introducing Jarate, a martial art involving wizz jars some say was...
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Team Fortress 2 ‘Spy Trailer’ Sneaks Out of ValvePlayStation LifeStyle
A brilliant new trailer for Valve’s old multiplayer title, Team Fortress 2, has been released. If you enjoyed the previous character trailers, this one will definitely have you cracking up. This video highlights the Spy, a murderous womanizer who lets nothing get in his way. By ...
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