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Ah hats, once an optional and frothy accessory that evolved into something insidiously important. For these people atleast. Unusual Hat Club has expanded into the interweb after their servers received a significant amount of attention from the Hat dwellers that are out for exotic and rare hats.

What is Unusual Hat Club? Well, it’s basically a site that allows you to trade rare hats amongst each other. The service/website/servers are not sponsored or supported by Valve themselves. Valve takes no responsibility if you get scammed whilst indulging in the dirty and forbidden trade of rare hats.

Provided you are ready to plunk down many-many dollars for a virtual item, the method of payment accepted is PayPal. Though considering the going prices, chewing powered glass seems like a better option than to procure a rare hat;

• Flies/Confetti Effect: $30-$40
• TF2 Logo/Peace Sign: $40-$60
• Hearts: $50-$80
• Ghosts: $80-$120 (Can vary depending on the hat)
• Searing Plasma: $80-120
• Vivid Plasma: $80-$150

Don’t think twice, get your Mom’s credit card and head over here for some trading!

For those who are interested in their servers, you can access them via the links below. Both servers are located in Sayreville, NJ

Server #1 – steam://connect/68.232.171.207:27015
Server #2 – steam://connect/68.232.174.168:27015

Big props to valk :)

- Abhorrence

In case you don’t visit TeamFortress.com and have chosen to ignore the conveniently placed RSS link at the right, hold onto your privates as Valve have planned a minor downtime for Team Fortress 2. On November 9th, 2010, beginning 1pm PST (10pm CET) — Backpack, Loadouts, Crafting, Mann-co Store and Trading will be unavailable. The downtime will wrap up by 2:30pm PST (11:30pm CET)

The game itself will continue to work. All players will have their default appearance and weapons.

This downtime will be one of many in the upcoming days as Valve has created an official downtime thread for Team Fortress 2. You can access it here, subscribe to it to receive updates regarding planned maintenance.

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You can crib over the Mann-Co Update, paid DLC and game changes but there’s no doubt that the inclusion of paid content has made Valve an incredible amount of money. How much money? Well, Valve has revealed the community developers involved were paid a lofty sum ranging from $39,000 to $47,000 for each developer for royalties. The best part is, these cheques are only from the sales that occurred in the past two weeks!

Five Steam community members participated in the initial round of content creation. Rob Laro, Shawn Spetch, Steven Skidmore, Spencer Kern, and Shaylyn Hamm created items for Team Fortress 2 which were then made available to other community members for purchase from the in-game Mann Co. Store. Today they received checks for the first two weeks of sales, with royalties ranging from $39,000 to $47,000 per person.

Hopefully this will inspire many to venture into the developer territory. Who knows, maybe your next creation will be included in the next Team Fortress 2 update.

Full press release can be read here on eXtv. Credit goes to eXtine!

- Abhorrence

For the hat crazed people out there, use the following channels to trade your stuff.

#tf2.trade @Quakenet

#tf2trading @GameSurge.net

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