Valve, creators of bestselling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), announced today that Mann vs. Machine (MvM), a new co-operative game for its free-to-play online action title Team Fortress 2 (TF2), is now available to download for free via Steam on PC and Mac.

MvM lets you and five friends fight a lethal horde of robots on all-new maps, with the opportunity to upgrade abilities and weapons along the way. Band together to survive all of the robot waves in a variety of missions to earn incredible loot and unlock new achievements.

To find out more about MvM, please visit http://www.teamfortress.com/mvm/. For more information on TF2, please visit http://www.teamfortress.com/.

Tried getting on to play after the updated downloaded, Valve only had about 50 official servers up(well, for if you don't buy a tour of duty ticket, dunno how many for that) but anyway, the player queue to get in was OVER 9000. Really, it was over 9000 when I checked.

I think Huff is trying to get in, too. His status on Steam is "Looking to play".

Yeah, tried again this morning, it showed almost 500 empty servers, but the queue was even longer with 14,000. Tried getting in to a public server, but most are password protected, and for the ones that aren't its a pain, since in order to run MvM they have to be 32 players(apparently the bots use up the other slots) so just constantly joining empty servers and servers with only 1 or 2 people on them only to end up as a spectator with tons of other people. So yeah, I can't see it being very easy to get in for the near future. I guess back to cp_dustbowl for me.

Looks like a cool edition, but when is this game going to die?

NEVER!!!

Anyway, played about 3 hours of mann up mode, got to the last wave but we just couldn't beat it. Really really tough, and you NEED 6 people, it doesn't scale down.