{"id":64039,"date":"2014-05-06T08:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T06:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=64039"},"modified":"2014-05-06T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T07:00:54","slug":"valve-launches-free-team-fortress-2-catch-up-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/64039-valve-launches-free-team-fortress-2-catch-up-comic","title":{"rendered":"Valve launches free Team Fortress 2 catch up comic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamfortress.com\/catchup\/\" target=\"_blank\">free digital Team Fortress 2 catch up comic<\/a> for new players of the free-to-play game who want to learn about shooter&#8217;s seven-year backstory.<\/p>\n<p>The comic briefs players about the never-ending war between the blue and red factions, and provides gamers with a great deal of background information and interesting \u00a0facts. Valve promises that this comic is not just for small children, and will provide entertainment for kids of all ages thanks to its &#8220;blood-soaked, adrenaline-gorged orgies of picture violence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The events portrayed in the catch-up comic lead directly into the core <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamfortress.com\/tf01_ring_of_fired\/\" target=\"_blank\">Team Fortress Comics series, which is also available for free online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64041\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Team-Fortress-2-Comic-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64041\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64041\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Team-Fortress-2-Comic-1-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Team Fortress 2 Comic\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Team-Fortress-2-Comic-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Team-Fortress-2-Comic-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team Fortress 2 Comic<\/p><\/div>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2014\/05\/05\/catch-up-on-team-fortress-2-storyline-with-new-comic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joystiq<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/63947-digital-gaming-deals-this-week-6.html\">Digital gaming deals this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63965-games-with-gold-for-may.html\">Games with Gold for May<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63921-new-call-of-duty-revealed.html\">New Call of Duty revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Team Fortress 2, comics are once again all blood-soaked, adrenaline-gorged orgies of picture violence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":64043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,8785,2238],"class_list":["post-64039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-comic-books","tag-team-fortress-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}