Xiant returns to his old stomping grounds for some long-winded spy strategy, now with more numerical lists!

Team Fortress 2 isn’t the game it used to be. Terrible optimization, random balance changes, and bizarre bugs. Space Hamlet exposes the conspiracy behind one specific Valve employee’s involvement in all these issues. Learn the terrible truth before it’s too late.

Looking for new sources of strategy and entertainment? WiNG has four great recommendations for you. Check out these awesome videos from cream of the crop Revelations, Battlefield, Street Fighter, and TF2 players.

A reader tip may indicate that Valve’s ready to begin releasing information on Half-Life 3. WiNG shows off what may be the first clue – do you have any more information to share about the release date, details, or other rumors on HL3?

Tactical shooters. Cover-based shooters. They’re all well and good, but whatever happened to run and gun, reaction-based gameplay? Binerexis explains what went wrong with the genre and how it can make a comeback.

FC2000 returns once again from WiNGSPANTT’s evil fortress, his sack heavy with more gaming goodies of Battlefield 3 and *gasp* Counterstrike 1.6! Can you learn something from the strategies he’s stolen?

Xiant talks for a long time about Gabe Newell and what he and his company do right. Hopefully, after an hour and a half in writing, it will have been worth the read.

Are you interested in DOTA 2, the Valve-fueled sequel to everyone’s favorite Warcraft 3 mod? Would you like to try out the currently live beta? Lucky for you, WiNG has two keys available to give away. All you need to get one is a little imagination…

Some people stomp pumpkins to ruin others’ hard work. Some people stomp them due to the accelerating effects of advanced dementia. But as WiNG shows today, some people stomp them due to their supernatural propulsive effects.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. WiNG ends Top Tier Tips in favor of something a little more… practical. Has the world come to an end? No, but it might once you’ve read what’s in our mailbox.

WiNG makes the case for giving EA’s Origin storefront a second look. Is it better than Steam? No. But maybe (just maybe) that doesn’t matter. And it might even be in your best interest to spread your digital eggs into other virtual baskets… so to speak.

It’s too late to burn your calendars – Halloween is here! WiNG is ready; are you? Drop into this post and let us know what terrifying thing you’re planning to don this year. We won’t be satisfied until someone stains his pants! Or her pants. Or whatever bottom goes with the costume.