Promotional items

Promo art for Poker Night at the Inventory, showing the Iron Curtain and the Lugermorph.

Promotional items in Team Fortress 2 are exclusive items made available to players through Valve's marketing partnerships with other video game companies, as well as through their own games. Players who purchase selected items from Valve or their partners, usually within a specified timeframe, will receive the item(s) advertised.

Means of obtaining promotional items vary. Typically, promotional items are awarded to players who pre-order or purchase the specified game. On other occasions promotional items have been released to players through other means such as earning achievements in the game itself. The Earbuds was awarded to players who launched Team Fortress 2 through the Template:W operating system.

With the exception of the items earned through gameplay, these items are no longer earnable, and can only be acquired through trading or gifting.

List

Alien Swarm

See also: Alien Swarm (Wikipedia)

Icon	Name	Used by	Type	Released	Notes
	Alien Swarm Parasite	All classes	Hat	July 19, 2010	A parasite from the game Alien Swarm, another Valve game. Earned through the Hat Trick achievement in Alien Swarm.

Portal 2

See also: Portal 2 (Wikipedia)

Icon	Name	Used by	Type	Released	Notes
	Companion Cube Pin	All classes	misc	July 19, 2010	A small pin displaying a portal and a "weighted companion cube", from the Valve game Portal. It is currently unobtainable, but it's rumoured that this is Portal 2's pre-order item.

Left 4 Dead 2

See also: Left 4 Dead 2 (Wikipedia)

Icon	Name	Used by	Type	Released	Notes
	Bill's Hat	All classes	Hat	November 2, 2009	A Special Forces hat, based on Bill's Hat from Left 4 Dead, another Valve game. Earned by preordering Left 4 Dead 2.
	Ellis' Cap	All classes	Hat	October 6, 2010	Ellis' Cap from Left 4 Dead 2. Earned by owning or purchasing Left 4 Dead 2 before October 7, 2010.
	Frying Pan	Demoman, Soldier	Melee weapon	October 6, 2010	Based on the Frying Pan melee weapon from Left 4 Dead 2. Earned by owning or purchasing Left 4 Dead 2 before October 7, 2010.

Poker Night at the Inventory

See also: Poker Night at the Inventory (Wikipedia)

Icon	Name	Used by	Type	Released	Notes
	Dealer's Visor	Heavy	Hat	November 3, 2010	A green poker Dealer's Visor. Earned by preordering Poker Night at the Inventory.
	Enthusiast's Timepiece	Spy	PDA2	November 2010	A replacement for the Spy's Invisibility Watch. Earned by playing Poker Night at the Inventory.
None	The License to Maim	All classes	Miscellaneous item	November 2010	The badge of the Freelance Police from the Sam & Max video game series. Earned by playing Poker Night at the Inventory.
100px	Iron Curtain	Heavy	Primary weapon	November 2010	A replacement for the Minigun. Earned by playing Poker Night at the Inventory.
	Dangeresque, Too?	Demoman	Miscellaneous item	November 2010	A pair of shutter shades for the Demoman, based on those worn by Homestar Runner. Earned by playing Poker Night at the Inventory.
	Lugermorph	Scout, Engineer	Secondary weapon	November 2010	The Pistol Max uses in the Sam & Max series. Earned by playing Poker Night at the Inventory. This is the same Lugermorph as the preorder bonus item from Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

See also: Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (Wikipedia)

Icon	Name	Used by	Type	Released	Notes
	Max's Severed Head	All classes	Hat	April 15, 2010	The severed head of Max, wearable by all classes. Earned by preordering Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
	Lugermorph	Scout, Engineer	Secondary weapon	April 15, 2010	The Pistol Max uses in the Sam & Max series. Earned by preordering Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. This is the same Lugermorph as the ingame item from Poker Night at the Inventory.
	Big Kill	Spy	Primary weapon	April 15, 2010	Sam's Revolver from the Sam & Max series. Earned by preordering Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.

Worms: Reloaded

See also: Worms: Reloaded (Wikipedia)

Icon	Name	Used by	Type	Released	Notes
	Lumbricus Lid	Soldier	Hat	August 25, 2010	A hat and grenade replacement for the Soldier. Earned by preordering Worms: Reloaded.

Other items

Icon	Name	Used by	Type	Released	Notes
	Earbuds	All classes	Miscellaneous items	June 10, 2010	Earned through logging into a TF2 account on a Macintosh computer.
	Mann Co. Cap	All classes	Hats	September 30, 2010	Earned through the first purchase made in the Mann Co. ingame store.

Cut promotional items

Icon	Name	Used by	Type	Released	Notes
None	Sam's Hat	All classes	Hat	Unreleased	Would have been released, along with Max's Severed Head, the Lugermorph, and the Big Kill as part of the week-long cross promotion for purchasing Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse on Steam.