After several class updates, copious amounts of hats and the addition of the Mann Co storefront — what could possibly be next for the constantly updated Team Fortress 2? Apparently, Valve has big plans in store, as it has revealed that a top secret project is in the works. No further details were spared, only that it’s “brand new” and coming in 2012. Oh, and it’s not a hat or map.

“The TF2 team is working on something brand new for 2012. We can’t tell you what it is, because they won’t tell us, but what they WILL say is that it isn’t a hat, it isn’t a map, and go away. From this we can only conclude that the TF2 team is working on some ungodly hat-map hybrid that you can wear on your head while you run around in it. You heard it here first. Also last, because they just told us it’s not that either. But it’s really cool, ” reads an update on the TF2 blog.

TF2: the game that keeps on giving.

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