Announcing our two-year anniversary and festivities. Though our birthday might be on Tuesday the 14th of September, we're going to be celebrating all week long!!! The week will be filled with fun games, prizes and all the carnival rides one could dream of... well not really. But we're still going to throw one heck of a hootenanny. Or maybe a hoedown. Whichever.

On the last night of festivities, we will have our grand reveal. As a celebration of our past, present and future success, we will be toasting to the server that started it all... and although you may speculate what this might mean, be sure it's BG's going back to our ROOTS

Servers mentioned below will be locked, spaces are reserved for BG members at a first come, first serve basis. Once we begin our regulars will have a chance to join up too! Keep an eye in the member's only forum for passwords for the events you wish to join!!

Did I mention prizes? Oh yeah... so we will be doing a raffle for BG members only on Sunday night during the MYSTERY EVENT!!! Each time you BG members show up for an event, you get your name in the hat. The more times you come out to frag, the better chance you have! And showing up for 30 seconds ain't gonna cut it.

And that grand prize is.....

Well we haven't figured it out quite yet. But rest assured it's gonna be sweet!!!

Anyway onto the important stuff...

Schedule is as follows:

8:00pm EST Thursday (9/16) - Zombie Thursday - Left4Dead2

8:00pm EST Friday (9/17) - 2Fort Night - TF2

8:00pm EST Saturday (9/18) - Good Company - BC2

And the grand finale and grand reveal:

8:00pm EST Sunday (9/19) - back to our ROOTS, DoD

Server: To Be Announced....

Stay tuned Ladies and Gentlemen

I did everything I could to try to save the PL/CP server but it just kept crashing. I got the server moved to New York. Hopefully the crashes will stop now. Lets try to get this thing full and see how it runs. If it does crash then I will know it is the server plugins that is causing the crashes and not the actual server itself. So please let me know if it does crash while you're playing.

Thanks to Soup! we have now added 24/7 Nelson bay and 24/7 White pass to our server arsenal. We will be monitoring the servers over the next few weeks to see if we can bring in any traffic. We would like to bring in more admins as we bring in more servers, so be on the lookout for that!

We should have the update rolled out on to all BG TF2 servers within hopefully the next hour or so. Please be patient as this is a pretty large update. Thanks

Engine:
- Fixed client crash related flashlight usage.
- Fixed several issues related to alt-tabbing (invisible players, etc).

Team Fortress 2:
- Added The Frontier Justice.
- Added The Wrangler.
- Added The Gunslinger.
- Added The Southern Hospitality.
- Added 35 Engineer achievements.
- Engineers can now pickup & move their buildings.
- Added Engineer main menu music.
- Added 4 new maps:
-- Thunder Mountain, a 3 stage Payload map.
-- Hightower, a Payload Race map.
-- Upward, a Payload map.
-- ColdFront, a community built Capture Point map.
- Item tuning:
-- The Sandvich now uses a cooldown timer, instead of the health pack recharge mechanic.
-- The Gunboats now reduce self-damage by 60% (was 75%)
-- The Tribalman's Shiv bleed duration reduced to 6 second (was 8), and its damage penalty increased to 50% (was 35%).
- Added better feedback sound for Pyros on when their flamethrower is doing damage.
- Fixed blood effect on bleeding player.
- Added a glow effect to Payload carts.
- Added Romanian language support.

Beginning today and running through July 4th, a ton of titles will be on sale through Steam, some of them even going for 90% off for stretches of one day at a time. Yeah, there are some huge savings going on here, so you will really want to check out Steamgames.com every day for the full listing of titles on sale.

There are also bundle deal sales for Paradox, Kalypso, Capcom, Rockstar, Square Enix, THQ, Atari, etc etc etc. Really, everything is essentially on sale. Some items are on sale for the duration of the event, others will have special daily offers that will offer even further discounts on prices.

Over the past few weeks I have received several request to add these two maps to the cycle. Many of you probably remember that these two maps use to be in the rotation but we took them out due to complaints. I think we should bring these maps out of the dust and give them another shot. If we do get a lot of complaints again I will remove them, so don't worry.