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Clean Screenshots in TF2

Team Fortress 2 is an extremely stylistic, beautiful game, especially in comparison to other FPSs of this day and age. It’s a shame though that a possibly fantastic deathcam shot will be obscured by your killer’s name, their weapon, their weapon’s stats, their hats, if they are your nemesis,...

A Day in the Life of the (tge) Achievement Idle server

Team Fortress 2 Idling Tips

Members of the geek escape, hell, gamers in general tend to be a bit on the obsessive side, making us easy prey for games with achievements and/or collectibles. Tge is currently fixated with hat collecting in TF2, having run, administered, and idled on our server since last August. Following...

Engineering Failure

This is an Engineer on our Team Fortress 2 achievement map lacking a bit of foresight in his building plans. Click here for a 1680×1050 inspirational (or lack thereof) wallpaper.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hold Down E in Borderlands

…And you can pick up a bunch of loot at once, though this will probably only apply if you run a multiple Bloodwing build. At level 50, multiple stacks of $700 to one grand are not uncommon. From each enemy. Plus health. And ammo. Add in a maxed Ransack...

Or are you just happy to see me?

Valve released the Soldier/Demo update about a week ago, adding 35 achievements to both classes, four new Soldier weapons, three new Demo weapons, crafting, two maps, Scout weapon tweaks, and about a bajillion bugs. There were a few server breaking ones but some were just… how...

I am Supremely Suspicious

…that something is amiss with the hat drop rate since the Team Fortress 2 Hallowe’en Special. The Geek Escape has three accounts running almost 24/7 in our Achievement Idle server; since the September 2nd update we’ve been getting around one hat every other day between us. Since Halloween, we’ve gotten...