Source: War on Terror

Hey all, our newest 2dartist; TwistedX just finished the steam background. Here's a screenshot of it.

Source: Jurassic Rage

The Jurassic Rage Team is extremely proud to announce the release of our new and highly anticipated website. This is a definate milestone in the development of Jurassic Rage, for the new website only makes it easier to bring to you the plethora of new and exciting media we have lined up. While updates have been sparse in the last few months, the Jurassic Rage Team have been working harder than ever, and our leader Hugo will be bringing you a full progress report within the next few days. For now, though, you can check out the new features of the website and our various new renders courtesy of our talented model designers. As the week continues you can expect to see more and more developer diaries, media updates and anything else the team decides to add.

On a more personal note, the Jurassic Rage Team are still working hard, propelled forwards in their work when something bigger than any of us could have expected happened to Jurassic Rage. Not letting anything slip, let's just say that it's revolutionised the team and spurred us on to produce yet more incredible work.

And on that note I must bring this post to a close. Comments are now free to be posted throughout the website by anyone who has a forum account, so go forth and, well, post comments. You can post comments on all news posts, developer diaries and stories, and the proceedure to do so is fairly self-explanatory. To post comments on news items, simply click the corresponding link attached to each news post. Developer Diaries can be reached through the Developer Diary link on the navigation menu to the left. Member profiles can be viewed on the Development Team page. The media page was designed to be user-friendly, and is divided into separate media sections. It should be easy enough to use, and can be accessed through the navigation menu.

- To join the Jurassic Rage Team you can now use the join form, located to the left in the navigation menu. From here you can fill out your application and send it off to Jurassic Rage.

Thanks for reading,
The Jurassic Rage Development Team

Source: CS 2d

Alpha 0.0.3.2 brought us a lot of new bugs - also an yet unknown bug with the U.S.G.N. So i decided to deactivate the U.S.G.N. until a fixed alpha has been released. You can still play online by using the join ip button!

I hope I can release the fixed alpha already tomorrow!

Sorry for the bad release and thanks for playing Counter-Strike 2D

Source: The Trenches

We've been really busy at The Trenches, keeping game production going while our members are going through various transitions. Sound artist Prime Suspect is off to college again and skinner rotzbua, still busy with some new family related things.

We've also released a few non-official videos, "home videos" if you will, taken from The Trenches beta testing sessions. Two of the videos are now down due to bandwidth concerns but many forum members still have the videos. A more organized and official video will be released later and hosted by FragFiles.

Do you sing in the shower or yell along with the Wehrmacht in Day of Defeat? Here's you chance at stardom! We're looking for British and German voice actors for The Trenches voice command section. See details on the forums, www.thetrenches.net/forums/

Also, we'd like to welcome Hawk to the ring of TT contributors as we have been testing his third party map "tt_0815" and were thoroughly impressed! The map is through its first build and still needs a few tweaks, but testing sessions indicate the the map looks good and plays great, especially with large amounts of people. Exclusive screenshots coming soon!

Source: HL Earthbound

That's right we have a new modeler to the team, everyone give Eclipse a warm HLEB welcome. He'll be finishing up the models we have left along with Victor. Welcome Eclipse!

Well, now for the update. As you know DragonDude has made an icon, Mr. Victor has made a tree for Ranboob:

DragonDude has been keeping up the coding progress (too early to say what) and I've been animating the character Poo. I have most of the basic animations done, so he's playable now. Once I finish up, maybe I could release a little video or something. TheGrimace finished a lot of Paula's basic animations, but is currently sidelined. So I may have to finish her up too.

And make sure you keep supporting us on ModDB!

Source: Black Dragon

The biggest news of this week definitely has to be our interview over at HL2Grounds.net.

The direct link can be found: here

We also had a new modeler join our ranks. TheWharGoul has posted some excellent examples of his work in our forums. I think all of you should take the time to check them out.

Additionally, more items on nearing release, so stay tuned everyone.

Source: Steam

An update to the Counter-Strike: Source beta has just been released. Steam will update itself automatically when you restart. Here is a list of the changes:

COUNTER-STRIKE: SOURCE BETA CHANGES / ADDITIONS:

• Optimal refresh rate is now autodetected from the list of available modes


• Fixed bug where multiple terrorists could purchase C4


• Fixed "bad net addr" error when joining a game after running a listen server


• Fixed sprays not working correctly


• Addressed crash caused by loading incorrect serverbrowser files


• Addressed flickering overlay textures on some video cards


• Addressed ground texture clipping in de_dust


• Limited sprays to 128 by 128 pixels

Source: HL2 Central
Related: Forsaken
HL2 Central just had the chance to interview the people over at the HL2 mod, Forsaken.

What will set your mod apart from other Half-Life 2 mods?

In general we’re aiming for a quality over quantity with Forsaken.

Gameplay wise we’re pretty excited about the 3-way team play element we have, and in addition we believe the whole story and background that has been created around each of the different teams will further enrich the experience and atmosphere for the players.

One of the grander ideas we have planned is an extended game-mode where your team must push the other faction back over a series of locations all the way to the enemy’s HQ/bunker and finally destroy it, this game mode will be called “Territory War”, and will feature some other unique concepts not yet seen in a mod.

Another aspect that will allow us to stand out will be the use of authentic textures from some of the real-life locations that we will be mapping. For instance in some of the London maps we will be modelling famous street layouts and using authentic photos as textures taken from the actual walls of the buildings on-location.

Source: Half-Life Radio

It's true folks...we are sorry to report that at the last minute, as the crew of GameSHOUT Radio were preparing to perform tonight's show, something startling happened. As you know, we are broadcasting from an AM station in the Florida everglades. We have seen our share of "critters" as folks down here call them. As a passing thunderstorm was just reaching the station, we heard a HUGE thunder clap...the lights went out...then we smelt this AWFULL smell of something burning. It was this smell forced us outside to see a possum next to the broadcast and power cables. It seems that it was chewing on the cables when lightning struck the broadcast tower, completely frying this poor possum. BUT, without power, we cannot broadcast, and they cannot get an electrician out here until Monday. SO, SORRY, NO SHOW TONIGHT! We SHOULD be in new quarters next week, but that is uncertain.

On a lighter note, while we were inspecting the cables, we found the reason for all of the funny noises from under the "broadcast studio" here. An armadillo ran out from under the trailer. This poor critter was so scared that it ran FULL THROTTLE SMACK into Andy's right shin!!! Andy will be walking funny for a week at least, and we have a GREAT story to tell his grandkids!

GOOD NEWS! By Monday evening, YOU will be able to play Counter-Strike: Source with your favorite GameSHOUT Radio personalities on OUR NEW GAME SERVER!!! Keep checking back for all of the details that will get YOU into THE GAME! Cya There!!

Source: Half-Life Radio

Tonight's show is awesome!!! We have SO much packed into one show that we HOPE we can get it all in. In the 2nd hour, it's the GAMEPAD GAMERS Reviews. Tonight's reviews include Sudeki for Xbox, Mario Golf Advance for Game Boy Adv., and a preview of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 for Xbox. SexyJosh will also take us on guided trip through Gameboy Video. Then stay tuned in the 3rd hour for some MOVIE TRIVIA fun!!! That's right folks...it's another Saturday night audience participation game where some lucky listener will be walking away with our review copy of DOOM3!!! Who will it be? Who REALLY knows their movies? Tune in and find out! Or better yet, join the chat through IRC on gamesnet.net or get there by way of www.halfliferadio.com and select the Chat Now link. You may join us on the show through the use of Ventrillo...just set the server to talk.halfliferadio.com and get your microphone checked by our call screeners and you're set. Tune in LIVE at 8:00PM EST, 1:00AM GMT to GameSHOUT Radio!!! Be there or be SQUARE! Aloha!