Friday, 19 November 2004
Half-Life Gaming will be recieving some content updates later tonight. The website might go down at around 8pm PST for about 30 min.Thank you
Source: PlanetHalfLifeIGN: Gear has put online a great and detailed article that compares the different versions of DirectX with Half-Life 2. Here some words:
While anyone reading this article is sure to have a newer card than a TNT, there are still plenty of people currently running the game on a GeForce 4, RADEON 8500 or any number of other aging cards. We see mail everyday wondering how well the game will look on these older cards, or if someone with a GeForce FX 5900 should pick up a cheap RADEON 9600 Pro to run the game in DirectX 9.0, even if the framerate difference will be negligible over the 5900's DirectX 8.1 rendering.This article is for you folks. If you're wondering what graphical features you're missing out on, or would like to see how much better your X800 XT looks than someone's 8500, read on. We've taken a boatload of screenshots to compare the four main rendering types, DirectX 7.0, DirectX 8.0, DirectX 8.1 and DirectX 9.0, and put them side-by-side for your viewing pleasure.A great article, which can really help you picking out a new Graphics Card. You can read the full article here at IGN: Gear.
Source: PlanetHalfLifeFilePlanet is now hosting 2 files containing great ingame movies of our beloved game, Half-Life 2. Here the links and a small description of the content:
Pack 1 contains: 10 Half-Life 2 videos brought to you by GameSpy! Showing a good portion of the beginning of the game, take a look at the next era of computer gaming.Pack 2 contains: an additional 7 Half-Life 2 videos brought to you by GameSpy, which basically show you even more of the beginning of the game.So if you haven't gotten the game yet, or if you just want to see somebody else playing the game, then these movies are just the thing for you.
Source: PlanetHalflifePlanetHalflife reports that Merle Dandridge, the voice of Alyx Vance, will be on TV today. Merle Dandridge will be on the ABC News Now's "Ahead of the Curve" at 5:30 p.m. EST. You can check here for more info on how to watch the show.
Source: PlanetHalfLifePlanetHalfLife has confirmed with Doug Lombardi from Valve that a X-Box version of Half-Life 2 will also be available, but a release date is not known at the moment:
"We've only announced that we're doing an Xbox version -- not dates just yet."Thanks to PlanetHalflife for the information.
Source: PlanetHalfLifeCounter-Hack is holding a Design Contest for their upcoming merchandising:
It's official. CH has received an offer for a limited production of Counter-Hack merchandise. We will start with the basics, so the first item will be a CH t-shirt. Now we could just go down the usual route by borrowing the site's logo and the slogan for making the print. But since CH is a community based site, why not the let the people decide? Submit your designs/logos/quotes/ideas and they may very well end up as part of the final product. Let the madness begin by following this link to the official contest thread.So head on over to Counter-Hack and join the contest.
Source: PlanetHalfLifeRelated: Biohazard SurvivorsA brand new Biohazard Survivors website has been put online:
Sorry for any fans that watched the Biohazard: Survivors site go offline after payments could not be made. Never fear, however, as the site is back online, as you are seeing.Also, the focus of Biohazard: Survivors has changed from "Online Survival Horror" to "Single Player Story" and a new "Free Roam" mode.In the new Free Roam mode, you have access to the entire Raccoon City area. Visit new and old locations like the RPD, Raccoon City Hospital, and the Spencer Mansion. No locked doors, no useless items to aquire, just pure zombie smashing fun. We would also like to show progress on our first map, the Raccoon City Hospital. You can access screenshots here (main site) and here (Mod DB gallery).And before anyone asks, you have to register for the forums again. Sorry for any inconvience.So check out the new site and new media here at Biohazard Survivors.
Source: PlanetHalfLifeRelated: MechModThe website of MechMod is now completely done. The Alpha will be released soon, but before that we now get the new media gallery of MechMod featuring tons and tons of ingame images and more:
Welcome to Release Stage 3 of 3!No, the Alpha isn't out yet. But 1 day before our Alpha is released, our website has been completed one hundred percent - which includes our newest gallery featuring 90 ingame screenshots of Alpha 1.0! Head over to our gallery page and check out the screenshots now!Thank you to the beta testers and team members who showed up promptly for the playtest session in which all of these screenshots were taken.On another note, we will be releasing our dedicated server installers 4-5 hours before the full installers are released, in order to give people time to setup their game servers. Also note, that people idling on IRC will get a link to the full installer at the same time as when the dedicated installers are released. :-)Note to modding and gaming websites: Please DO NOT link directly to our gallery images, hot linking to gallery images isn't permitted.So check it all out by heading over to MechMod.
Source: HalfLife2.netEuroGamer has put online it's Half-Life 2 review. Here a small part of the review:
If Half-Life 2 achieves one single thing, it's to put into sharp focus how far gaming has come, and more specifically how far behind some of its competitors in the FPS genre really are. Some doubted that the Source engine could match the technical brilliance elsewhere, but it has not only surpassed anyone else's achievements, it has done so without forcing people to invest in ludicrously expensive hardware. Reports persist from amazed gamers with mid-range set ups that have been blown away by how well the game runs on their systems. That Half Life 2 looks more convincing, more understated, more realistic, more interactive and definitely more stylish than its peers yet manages it with far lower overheads is not only an impressive feat, but commercially a masterstroke.EuroGamer gives the game a score of 10/10 and you can read the reasons, well they should be clear to anyone by now, the game just rocks, here at EuroGamer.