I’ve been an avid Team Fortress 2 player for quite some time. The game always seems fresh because Valve continues to constantly update (119 updates and counting) the game since it was released on the PC on 2007. With hundreds of maps and servers, i’ve come across HaLs PlayGrounD. A fantastic little community with a good handful of TF2 maps (mostly 2fort style). With thousands of weekly visitors, hundreds whom are regulars, HaLs is one of the most social, diverse, and fun servers i’ve ever been on. With that being said, you’ll find me playing on one of the servers almost daily. On November of 2009,  I was made an admin for HaLs and have been doing what I can to contribute to this fantastic community. Come join us for a round or twenty on HaLs!

You can add me on Steam and join our gaming community via Steam or on the Forums. I go by VO!D and I frequent Desert and Rainy.

That being said, Steam was announced for Mac OS X on March 8, 2010 and promised to bring all Source games, including Team Fortress 2. This is great because now it means I don’t have to constantly boot into my Windows partition to game on. Originally planned for a late April release (and take into account Valve Time), the Steam client was released on May 12th with just a handful of games. What’s missing? Every Source game except for Portal. I was a frustrated and disappointed to see TF2 MIA on the initial release but Valve did gave away Portal for free. Not a time-restricted demo but the full game, which is absolutely fantastic in my book.

With plans to release Mac updates every Wednesday, I now wait until the day where I can finally download that massive 7GB OS X native TF2 game, along with every other Mac Steam user. A shame my download speeds are mediocre (2.5Mbps).