240 Steam counts to three

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The doubters have been proven wrong; Valve can count to three but only when it comes to Steam in the living room. They have released all their big announcements regarding the fan-titled Steam Box. Firstly there’s the new linux based operating system, SteamOS. Next comes the hardware, Steam Machines, available directly soon from Valve and other manufacturers. Lastly we see a brand new, and utterly unique take on the standard console controller. There’s no analogue sticks, just touch pads, hundreds of them, everywhere.

This is a TF2 podcast so we really should mention the update that dropped. The one where strange misc-slot items that are tradeable can now be listed on the Steam Community Market. There’s a bunch of Bombardier changes along with more stuff being added to the Mann Co. Store., including the Byzantine Bundle from the Total War Rome update.

Heartsman has been spending more time with KritzKast so we snuck him in to Eurogamer Expo 2013 and found some TF2 cosplayers and the Atomizer Bat.
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Round Robin are running a Halloween Special mentoring tournament. 3A Robots go on sale in Hong Kong and Ray’s the Dead hat tries to sneak into the game.