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Merry Christmas

May your holidays be team-stacked and none of your presents require $2.49 keys!

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Assault -N- Battery HalloWeen Update

Valve and their team of underpaid and undoubtedly under-exercised programmers have been hard at work cramming their Halloween update full of costumes, hats, and a giant severed eyeball. HL2.exe may have stopped working, but we at Assault -N- Battery never do and we're proud to announce our first ever Halloween update!


AnBservers TF2 Backpack!!




Tired of visiting third party sites or logging into Steam to glance at your goodies? Assault -N- Battery forums now feature backpack access!





To use this new feature, open the drop-down menu next to your name in the top user bar, select "Associate Your Steam Profile" in the menu, and whenever you click "TF2 Backpack" in your profile, your backpack is instantly accessible. Bragging about your hats has never been easier!


Contests!


Did we mention free stuff? Nothing says Halloween like a sack of swag and these freebies don't require you extorting candy from your neighbors or robbing your children while they sleep off their holiday sugar highs.

Assault -N- Battery is proud to announce our first two holiday game contests. (Stay tuned for more information)


The Death Cam Contest
Visit here for more information.


Send in your best kill cam shots, and compete in categories such as "Funniest Shot" and "Most Gruesome."


The Best Replay Contest


Want to show off your spy kills? Scare off the competition with a legendary chain-kill display? Send in your best replays and get rewarded with more than the awe of the community!


Prizes


Prizes will consist of games like...

Nuclear Dawn


Counter-Strike Source


WarHammer 40,000: Dawn of War II


Left 4 Dead 2


Defense Grid: The Awaking



Help a Server Out!


Assault -N- Battery servers are catapulting up the rankings, but all that bandwidth doesn't come for free!

Make a donation today and keep our community one of the best places to play around!

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Osama bin Laden Dead

Article from USA TODAY


WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the world's most wanted man, was killed in a targeted raid in Pakistan, President Obama said late Sunday in an announcement that surprised the world.

Bin Laden met his end 10 years after the 9/11 attacks in a firefight with a small team of U.S. forces that launched a daring raid on the compound where he was holed up with some trusted advisers. He was hiding only 35 miles from Pakistan's capital Islamabad.

"The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al-Qaeda," the president said in a dramatic White House announcement made shortly before midnight. An unnamed U.S. official told the Associated Press Monday that bin Laden was buried at sea.

The news of bin Laden's death touched off spontaneous outpourings of emotion in New York and Washington.

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