It’s a big week and so, amazingly, we skip over this week’s update to talk about a historic moment when the entire KritzKast podcast was together in one place.

Makani confirms the fourth installment of the current TF2 comic for the end of the month, but in the meanwhile you can view Kevin Lennertz fan comic about the sniper.

Everyong gets access to the hugely useful heatmaps.tf, but it’s not the only thing that’s heating up as we discuss the changes made by Twitch.tv. The DOTA 2 Workshop sparks interest as people find references to Source 2.

For our cats in trees, we’re all rather taken by a fan-made Bonk Boy Mask. Lastly, we announce that kritzkast is leaving Feedburner.

It seems we can’t have another update to cactus canyon without having another cactus. There’s three in there now; Half Life 3 confirmed? No. What we do have back though is the level 3 mini-sentries. \o/

ValveTime, run through their Top 5 Valve maps, betting on matches with keys and metal becomes a thing with Saloon.tf. The i49 Fragumentary is on the horizon as is an item replacement service from mods.tf  and McDonalds still haven’t made the TF2 connection with the Volcano Fragment Burger.

Lastly, our servers‘ new build is almost, almost done. I can almost smell it.

We are loving the weekly updates to the beta maps. It gives us more and more to talk about each week. Thank you Valve. We also talk briefly about other items in the update…but really…..its all about the big changes to asteroid and subtle changes to canyon.

Also Announced this week is the 4th annual Saxxy awards. This year you can start creating with portals since they have added the portal 2 DLC pack to load SFM up with aperture goodies.

Out in the community we talk about TF2 retrospective, Spains first International TF2 Tournament . Why its called a retrospective is beyond us, but the promo video feels retro. Plus scrim.me. We have no idea how good it actually is, but seems good on the outside. If you know how good it is, tell us. Post a review in our subreddit.

We sink our teeth into the updated versions of the TF2 Beta maps, chewing on how they’ve changed the way they play.

We also wonder if science has finally gone too far with the Red Neca Spy that has finally shipped.

Meet the KritzKast Team (current hosts and editor) on the 8th of August for an evening off the air, off the game and generally off our faces. Be sure to RSVP on Reddit or FaceBook!

Lastly, for those times in your life when you need to say something properly, say it with the help of our favourite mercenaries and Grizzly Berry’s TF2 Greeting Cards.

Whats better than a huge update with a new game mode? Testing said new game mode and letting valve know how we feel and how to change it before its released? Seems good to me.

This week we saw to start of the TF2 Beta Maps, Early Access. In this we are exposed to the new game mode in the works, Robot Destruction. How do you feel about? Think its better with clap traps? Find out how we feel in the show. Plus the new PL map Cactus Canyon. Good times are coming.

Plus watch our video of the week, Zero to Hero, promoting JumpAcademy.tf and its new Jump mentoring system.

Comp TF2 gets quite a look-in this week with the new TF2mix.com site, two teams from NA will be coming to i52, the Highlander Nations Cup has begun and both ETF2L and UGC are banning conga.

Volcano Fragment is now a burger, TFTools have a charity stream, sadly not in a barrel of fish, and we should all relax and take a look at the scenery.

After the kerfuffle  caused with the demo-nerf last week it perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise to discover that Valve have unnerfed the nerf. Valve have also introduced Buy Orders to the Steam Marketplace to spoil bot’s fun.

TF2Maps.net have run another 72hr mapping contest using The War of the Worlds as their theme. Elsewhere on their forums the idea of monetary compensation for mappers has sparked debate.

Medi20 has released his art as a coloring book. And finally MrShadowNinja (a.k.a. Zonicboom) earns player of the week for his pixelated Lo-Fi Longwave.