Summary: We are joined today by Dust Storm from Podtacular, the long running unofficial Halo Universe podcast. Why? Well we’ve very happy to have Podtacular join KritzKast in the PodKast network and we thought you’d like to get to know him. TF2 seems to be going through a fashionista phase at the moment. In the last week 18 news hats/miscs have been added to the game. The cross over with Gunpoint brings us the Crosslinker’s Coil. A pre-order of Total War™: ROME II will gain you 7 themed cosmetics to pimp out your classes giving them that look of battles long gone. Scout gets his leopard on with the Beastly Bonnet and the Cheet Sheet. Pyro is standing proud in the Centurion and Steel Sixpack. Demoman gets the Tartan Shade and the highly questionable Tartantaloons. finally medic proves his superiority over lesser men with his Hardy Laurel. We’re seeing the up side to all that work Valve put into their new workshop import tool. Only two days after implementation and a blog post requesting new submissions they’ve dropped 10 new items into the game. I wish Ruskeydoo was here to tell you what that means. It’s super impressive given that in the past it could take many weeks between a submission being accepted and finally allowed into the game. Personally my favourite is The Dark Age Defender. Every demoknight will be wearing it this season. We’ve got two big news stories in hats! Firstly, unusuals are now tradable in the Steam Community Market. Secondly we have 30,000 Steam members, 3,000 twitter followers which we are celebrating by giving out 300 lo-fi longawave hats to you guys. Speaking of hats, TF2 has caught the eye of The New York Times‘s Fashion and Style section. Apparently spending thousands on in-game items isn’t normal behaviour. Who knew? Anyway they got some of those people with hundreds of pairs of shoes that they’ll only ever wear once and won’t last forever to talk about how gamers are a bit frivolous. Well they’ve got us there. Maybe we should run around murdering pedestrians for petty cash. My bad, that’s Saints Row IV – soon to launch with TF2 skins. Our ‘cat in the tree’ story comes from Valve’s offices where they are wondering if you’d buy a sweater that looked this. Erm, is this a trick question?
