In a surprise announcement, Valve has announced a new full-sized Team Fortress 2 summer update for this year, bringing new items, maps, taunts, and more to the game. The developer will also include a selection of Steam Workshop content in the update, and asks the community to submit their creations to Steam Workshop by May 1, 2023.

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Team Fortress 2 turns 16 this year, and updates in recent years have understandably brought little new content to the game. That is all set to change this year, as Valve has just dropped a surprise announcement about a full-fledged update releasing in the summer:

The last few Team Fortress summer events have only been item updates. But this year, we’re planning on shipping a full-on update-sized update — with items, maps, taunts, unusual effects, war paints and who knows what else?! Which means we need Steam Workshop content! YOUR Steam Workshop content!

So get to work! (Or back to work, if you were already working but got distracted when the entire internet simultaneously found out about this state-of-the-art blog-post.) Make sure to get your submissions into the Steam Workshop by May 1st, so they can be considered for this as-yet-unnamed, un-themed, but still very exciting summer-situated (but not summer-themed) (unless you wanted to develop summer-themed stuff) update.

As mentioned in the announcement, a selection of Steam Workshop content from the community will become part of the new update. Submissions for Steam Workshop content close by May 1, 2023.

Team Fortress 2 remains available on PC, macOS, and Linux. Stay tuned here at MP1st for all upcoming details of the new Team Fortress 2 summer update.

Source: Team Fortress 2 Blog (thanks, DANNYonPC)