I will not be around later today till probably Friday evening. I will not be able to respond to any e-mails or post news since I will not have access to a computer *gasp*. I am sure that the other admins will fill in for me and there will be some news. Just don't expect my large lump of news for the next few days. Sorry for any trouble this might cause. Check out the message boards or go on irc.gamesurge.net #hlgaming.com. I am sure that someone will be there to help you.

Source: The CPL

The CPL announced the country stops for the $1,000,000 CPL World Tour™. The 2005 tour will travel through ten countries and will feature only one game. The game will be announced in a few weeks.

CPL World Tour 2005
February China
March Spain
April Yugoslavia
May Brazil
June Sweden
July USA
August Taiwan
September Japan
October United Kingdom
November Chile
December Finals - USA

Source: Half-Life Radio

We'll be talking more about this during Friday night's Half-Life Radio show on the GameSHOUT Radio network. Midway Games has introduced a video game that utilizes brains, as well as brawn. Spokesman Riley Brennan says "Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy" is the first game to combine the action-combat with mind control". Brennan says the player has telekinesis, which is the ability move objects and people with his mind. He has pyrokenisis, which is the ability to use his mind to start fires. And he has something called "remote viewing," which essentially allows him to have an out-of-body experience as he goes on his adventure.

Hmmm. Would be cool if Half-Life 2 had this technology.

Source: Somme Valley

The past few, and following, days marks the 90th commemoration of the beginning of the First World War. While many people refer to the "Great War" as a pointless waste of life, it is important to remember that those who gave the ultimate sacrifice did so for what they believed they were fighting for. Their loved ones at home.

It's been a while since a media update but we've worked hard to get you the following renders. First up is chuckybob's great French Ambulance map model. The USA regularly made gifts of Ford's Model-T, yet only supplied the bare essentials, causing the French to design their own bodies. The ambulances frequently saw themselves amidst action on the front-line at times crossing mine-fields, taking enemy fire or driving through gas.

Next up, a selection of mapmodels by chuckybob, Mortar and yours truly:


And finally, rerenders of the fixed Mills, Webley VI and G98.

Source: Foreordination

Once again, it's time for the monthly update. This time, it's with a new site. I encourage you all to register and help make the site a success. Enough talk, time for the media.

First, you can see the base female player model, modeled by Roshan.

Next, you can see the special forces soldier concept by Viscera.

Source: Born of War

Flipside is a game development firm that was founded to do one thing, make games. We are here to make games that people will enjoy playing, and will enjoy watching as much as they enjoy playing. Our team comes from all walks of the gaming community: all of which have competed competitively in online gaming tournaments, and even several LAN tournaments. We know how to game; and we're looking for people that know how to game also. You see, because Half-Life 2 has been delayed several times, we have slacked off and not been looking for the positions that we need to bring this game to life. The time has come to stop, and to finally begin (again) development.

Born of War was first proposed by Andrew and myself for the Unreal Tournament 2004 engine and development platform. Because of the "Make Something Unreal" contest, we found it very difficult to get team members that weren't already on a team. In fact, that was the sole reason that we decided to move to the Source platform. Born of War is a multiplayer modification for Half-Life 2 that takes place on the eastern front of World War II. Gameplay will be much like Valve's "Counter-Strike" and Infinity Ward's "Call of Duty." We are looking to mix the best type of competitive gameplay, with the greatest visuals ever seen in a World War II computer game. You can get more information about the Born of War project at the project's website, http://bow.flipsidesoftware.com.

Now we get to the point of the matter. We need several positions to get this game off the frying pan and into the fire. Concept artists are always welcome to join our team, if you have a good ability to create textures, that's even better! We need modelers for weapons, players and props. Born of War is going to be taking advantage of one of the newest, most detailed, game engines avaiable today, and with that, we must be able to keep on the tip of our toes with artwork. Texture artists, ones that are able to skin weapons, players, and props are definately wanted. Programmers, if you are experienced, please apply as well. We are looking for dedicated people that are looking to get into the amatuer (indie) game development industry; you must have the passion for development.

If you fit the job for anything above, please do not hesitate to email me (j.bellone@flipsidesoftware.com). If you think you have a skill that we could use too, give me an email. We're always on the lookout for great talent in any area.

Source: Mod Resource

Holy smokes! A new design Batman! New content also, including updated reviews and interviews! The slew of new content begins with new graphics throughout, new CSS, more integrated and easier to use navigation, three interviews, two new mod reviews, and updated HL1 and HL2 mod listings with more links! Plus, as an added bonus, there is now a guide to both Half-Life 1 and 2, giving various bits of info on different parts of the game. Here are the details:

Interviews
- Tony P on Your First Mission
- Stephen Murray with Citizen-132
- Ryan Desgroseilliers from HL: Nightwatch
Reviews
- [url=http://modresource.hl2central.net/reviews/invasion.php]HL: Invasion[/url[ is finally done
- Nuclear Winter for Opposing Force
Plus
- Half-Life 2 Mods Page Updates!
- Half-Life 1 & 2 Info Sections
- Done away with the entry page (now auto-forward). Come right in.
As always, if you want to trade links or affiliate, shoot me an email.

There you go. An absolutely gigantic update! And I'm absolutely sorry about the ads, but thats how I gotta roll with GamingSource. I never knew that some were those annoying, flashing, winner! ones. Norton does too good a job for me I guess.

Source: Earth Special Forces

Yes yes! It's finally here, the beta 1.2.1 quick (lol) patch. It did take quite a bit longer
than we expected. Everytime we tried to kick the new version out the door we stumbled across errors that needed to be corrected. So, go get it!
[LINKS ON THEIR WEBSITE OR SOON ON HLGAMING]
Features:
- Bots included in the main esf code
- Fmod linked from the cl_dlls dir, hopefully fixing installation problems
- Increased throwing speed
- Increased PL increase in melee
- Made powerlevel catchup depend on average potential pl, instead of just average pl
- Power level damage tweaks
- Esf_giant_forest map added

Bug fixes:
- Missing prepunched animation added
- Destructo Disc no longer Forms in Chest when running
- Melee sounds work near walls now
- Throwing resistance miscalculations fixed
- ESF_canyon entities made solid
- Bots won't become invisible while melee'ing now
- Fixed fat buu's backward swim animation
- You won't get dropped from flight when attacked with another beam during a block struggle
- Fixed a bug with the last few melee arrows not going green/red or fade away.
- Included the telekinesis in Frieza's class text
- Moved the death messages text down a bit in spectator mode, so it's readable
- The generic beam now won't charge at double speed when you hold both mouse buttons
- You can't play as spectator anymore
- "Thud" sound is no longer made after gibbed player (invisible) hits ground
- Fixed a bug creating duplicate bodyslices
- Sword animation fix for Trunks's sword
- The pause server command is now disabled by default
- Fixed health fuck up when changing team, real team mode
- Blocking fov now moves with looking up/down
- Firstperson is now forced during melee battles, so the screen doesn't fuck up
- You're no longer able to change teams during Advanced Melee and Throw
- Fixed an exploit overruling the character limit
- Spectator view origin and angles in melee fixed
- Attack charges no longer double up
- Prepunch crashing bug fixed
- Fixed blocking diagonals with the wrong buttons
- Skill and bot number settings now correctly affect bot startup
- Fixed a bug booting clients from every server with a name > 32 characters

Source: Stargate Total Conversion

After a meeting in the team, we see we must make something for Team/fans communication, That's we take to post every mondays a news to speak about mod progress. So, the first week : about the singleplayer (so today), the second week about the multiplayer and that's system will be utilised every weeeks.
So what the news about the solo for the week ? we don't speak about it since some month now.

In modeling, there is new weapons !

-The USAS12, automatic shootgun, 12mm, medium powerfull, but hight shoot per minutes (model by REX, animated by Ze_PrOuT )

-The m4a1 and his grenades launcher M203, the most popular weapon of SGTC customized and more destroyer !!! (model by REX, animated by Ze_PrOuT)

-The knife (by REX and ZE_Prout)

In mapping, beatifull mission, more ice, more dificult !

http://www.stargatetc.com/Forum/index.php?showtopic=1411

More details:
Mission_neige (snow_mission)
You're on a frozen planet, yuor mission is to found an artefact in the middle of our Medieval batiments, As every time, you're not lucky and Anubis's jaffa must found this artefact too, and kill you at the same time...Good luck !!!

Tollana
On Tollana planet, you're meeting the high counsil with the other sg1 member, to deal their hight technology, when anubis destroyed all "invissible" ion cannon... only shields intalled on important sites stop Anubis's Jaffas, but you need to unactive them to escapeyourself... Good luck !!!

That's all for this week... you will know better thinks in 2 weeks !

Source: United Admins

A new version of Cheating-Death has been released which contains several new detection and blocking methods as well as a new system for handling Steam updates. This means that from now on Cheating-Death will not have to update every time Steam does. Furthermore C-D will fail more gracefully, allowing most users to continue using C-D until an update is released.

Additionally we have implemented a fix for the Spectator exploit, however this requires mp_forcechasecam 2 and mp_forcecamera 2 to be set in order for the fix to work. Finally there are a variety of small bugfixes and tweaks to improve the overall user experience.