Awesome Team Fortress

Team Fortress’ Scout goes up against the zombie hordes of Left 4 Dead in this kick-ass machinima by Randall Glass, who used Maya, Source Filmmaker, Source SDK and L4D itself to make the short.

The trailer for Mann vs. Machine, the latest update to squad-based fps Team Fortress 2. It adds a new faction – the robots of Gray Mann – a co-op game mode, map and most probably new hats as well.

Combining two of our favorite pastimes – Team Fortress 2 and Flight of the Conchords in a single clip is the stuff that YouTube dreams are made of. More here, here, here, and here.

BioWare cinematic designer James McVinnie used the Source Filmmaker (and two Kinects for motion capture) to create this slapstick Team Fortress 2 short about a war between two Engineers.

If you watched the Meet the Pyro video, you’ll recognize the Balloonicorn, a beautiful creature that sprung forth fully formed from the beautiful mind of Team Fortress 2’s resident psychotic.

The formal introduction to Team Fortress 2’s mysterious character. Take a peek into his – her? – unique perspective in life. You can share that view by equipping any of these items in-game.

Not only does Taryn love Team Fortress 2 as much as her beau Derek (pun intended) – she asked Valve to create a custom virtual ring, and proposed during an online session. Best girlfriend ever.

YouTuber Armago24x has justified the existence of hats and accessories in Team Fortress 2. They’re for machinima, like this remake of the Elder Scrolls: Skyrim trailer. Guess who the dragon is.

Highly detailed and well-proportioned LEGO versions of the entire Team Fortress 2 Red team made by Flickr user Pepa Quin. They could also just be the Blu spy in disguise. Can’t be too sure.

Team Fortress 2 gets the real world treatment by the guys over at Corridor Digital. The characters and weapons are spot on, but we’re still missing Heavy and the Medic. (Thanks, Kat!)

Inspired by Team Fortress 2 and Meet Buck, Mac n’ Cheese is a fast-paced and trippy short film made by Tom Hankins, Gijs Vank Kooten, Guido Puijk and Roy Nieterau of the Utrecht School of Arts.

Video game de-maker extraordinaire Eric Ruth is working on what’s shaping up to be his best effort yet: Team Fortress 2 as a 4-player beat ’em up, with trademark moves for each of the classes.

The Medic finally gets his own video, a gift eclipsed only by the fact that there’s no more reason why anyone would even touch Minesweeper or Solitaire now that Team Fortress 2 is FREE TO PLAY.

(Slightly NSFW) Pin-up paintings of female Team Fortress 2 characters made by UK-based illustrator Assim Heetun aka Agent Melon. Screw the hats Valve, we’d rather pay for these.

Here’s what it would look like if The Dark Knight starred TF2 characters, headlined by the Spy as Joker and the Demoman as Batman. You’ll have to turn up the volume to appreciate the clip.

Gaming Heads’ follow-up to the official Team Fortress 2 Heavy statue is none other than the rocket-jumping Soldier. The exclusive edition will have both the rocket launcher and the Direct Hit.

Spurred by the positive response to his Team Fortress 2 entry in Kotaku’s Tronify Everything contest, Chandan Singh decided to take it to the next level and made player skins for the game.

WETA Workshop (yes that WETA) built this incredible full-size Level 1 Sentry Gun from Team Fortress 2 for the guys at Valve. How much do you think shipping from New Zealand cost them?

Team Fortress 2’s biggest update yet brings an in-game store, where 5 new item sets can be purchased. Read the FAQ and the comic for more info. Actually the comic’s not helpful, but it is funny.

James Benson’s project is finally complete. The Red and Blue teams enact an emergency ceasefire to dance to Gonna Make You Sweat. There’s too much awesomeness here for just one viewing.

An awesome mod that pits the Red Team against the Mann Co. CEO himself. His fists can kill with one blow and he has thousands of hit points. If you think that’s unfair, you can take it up with him.

The Team Fortress 2 guys do the classic Camelot scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail in this awesome bit of Machinima. On second thought, let’s not go to Camelot, it’s a silly place.

A Spy uses one of the oldest tricks in the book with great success: 1. spray a picture of a sexy lady; 2. hide and wait; 3. stab the perv to death. Watch out for the hilarious blindly swinging Scout.