KritzKast is please to announce a new competition in partnership with Australia’s Gamers United. GAMERS UNITED & KRITZKAST: DOUBLE AGENT Details are on a need to know basis. Suffice to say it’s going to be mad, it’s going to be beautiful and you can blame it on whatever Ruskeydoo was drinking.

Last week I posted a blog entry and broke two of the cardinal sins of blogging. We’ve had a few guest writers in these past months. Whenever anyone writes in to us with emails that are interesting and well constructed there’s a temptation to invite them to blog for us. Some people, like hideous, are incredibly well versed and invested in their field. Others like Sic Semper and Metal Gear?! [...]

Since trading in items began other people have been making money. There’s nothing wrong with that per say, however the real winners in trading, as with any kind of betting, should really be the guys providing the trading services – the bookies, or to use their company name, Valve Software. The buy/sell mechanism remains solely a Steam solution. However, enterprising 3rd party websites provide everything from unusual hat search to item price and backpack valuations The [...]

Team Fortress 2 used to be all about sticky jumps, air frags, back stabs and team work. It was a game played between friends or strangers who soon come to be friends. All that changed with item drops, back packs and trading. Perhaps changed isn’t the right word, diverged may be a better way of putting it. This meta trading game is as hard fought as the exchanges on the [...]

Ah…the good ol’ domination. Beating your opponent to the point where even your very avatar cannot help but ridicule them in their sad pathetic state. Feels good doesn’t it? Well sometimes there’s a far deeper meaning behind that ridicule, a deep rooted reference, kind of like when you play records backwards in an attempt to listen to Satan. Sans the Satan, Valve has placed a rather interesting reference within one [...]

Possibly the biggest thing to happen in Team Fortress 2′s history since the game went free to play, was kicked off this afternoon. The line up for Mix-Up match 4 has been announced with three spaces for you to play too. We talk to event founder and manager, Ashkan Namousi about the ideas behind Mix-Up Match. Way back in July 2010, Ashkan was a fresh faced public player, there were [...]

You may know that Valve recently added in a new item to Team Fortress 2. The Nine-Pipe Problem. What you may not know is the person behind it: Mnemosynaut. No I can’t pronounce his name either. But that doesn’t stop him from being a big part of the model making community. He currently has 2 in game items, as well as having a hand in fake updates “Night of the [...]

The KritzKast Lo-Fi Offclass Cup has evolved from it’s simple beginings. In sheer defiance of the usual 6v6 rules we wanted to bring an occam’s razor solution to the off-classes never getting a look-in on the vibrant competative scene. Said as much in drunken jest as anything, the idea of banning the Solider, Scout and Demoman could have amounted to nothing had it not been for a listener, Trent deciding [...]

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner and in the spirit of bro-mance in the air South Africa’s TF2CSA kicked off their very first Ultiduo competition. 2 vs 2 is always fast and furious; the eliminations,  prelims and semi-finals have all been cracked through providing us with two clear finalists. Team OH NO! and Team Synergy will face off at 7pm CAT | 5pm GMT | 9am EST this Sunday [...]

What’s this? A number 4? Well, I never! Now, you say “But Hideous, these are only 6 items! Last week you had 10″ – and I say, sure, maybe I did. But then I say if I keep it to 10 every week I am going to run out of items. So now it’s 6 items. And now, you will read about them. YOU WILL READ.