Source: The Trenches

Yeah. We'd like to welcome you to the new webpage of The Trenches Half Life World War One Modification. Morphew and rotzbua worked for some time on this thing, and now it's time to release it.
Thanks to our new host e-frag for supporting us.
You can expect a webpage that's always up to date, combined with this new enhanced graphics. We hope you like it.

By the way, be sure to check the Media Section for some nice new picture updates and unseen screenshots, and be sure to click through the sections, all are up and filled with content. Some of it new.

Source: Half-Life Radio

Breaking News: We spoke with Doug Lombardi today at Valve. He has confirmed our reports. Half-Life 2 is expected to be released to Vivendi in August and on store shelves by the fall. Doug Lombardi said:

Quote:
On the ship date, we are planning to deliver a release candidate to Vivendi in August and we're hoping to see the product on store shelves this fall but we do not have a confirmed ship date at this time.

We will have more on this tonight during the HL Radio show! Live show begins at 8pm EST / 1am GMT.

Source: Half-Life Radio

The live show is tonight on Half-Life Radio and will start at 8pm EST / 1am GMT. We will be talking about the latest Half-Life 2 news which also includes the Vivendi Universal troubles. Will Half-Life 2 really become gold in August without any official release date and even though there are signs of publisher problems? We will also cover several PC game reviews. We will be reviewing The Suffering, Tron 2.0, previewing Star Wars Battlefront, and we'll present our Demo of the week. There will be several guests on tonight's broadcast.

We will be broadcasting live from the #Radio channel on GamesNET IRC. GamesNET is the official IRC network for Half-Life Radio! If you don't have an IRC client, just click on the CHAT link from the top navigation!

Source: DODEC

First off, im glad you all are enjoying the new site, I have been comtemplating recently what else to do to make it more interactive, then today i recieved a comment from Docm30 about adding file comments. I thought about it and decided to give it a try, so the new file comment system is now online. However, if this is ABUSED in any way, I will get rid of it. DO NOT use this to insult authors or start flames about files, or ask for support. Use then to post your honest opinions of the download.

Also, I am looking for some people to write up some guides for our guides page, i currently could use the following type of guides:


Steam Install Guide

Modeling Guides

Mapping guides

Any other dod related guide you can think of.

All guides should be e-mailed to me and be a text file, or html file, pictures will also be a bonus. All guides that are accepted will be put on the site with proper credits.

Source: The Gaming Element
A nice interview with the people from The Battle for Baghdad is available at TGE.

TGE: Right, down to the gritty details. How did you develop the idea of Battle for Baghdad?

wormie: Well, BFB was originally the idea of a guy named noclip. Noclip got the idea when he was watching a news report I believe where some Marines were battling for a bridge that led into Baghdad. He originally developed the mod as a Desert Combat expansion on the BF1942 engine and after a while he moved on to workin on his own engine and I decided to take it over BFB and lead it. Then after watching the HL2 movie from last summer I decided to switch engines.

TGE: Sounds interesting. Could you describe the general story for us?

wormie: Well basically it take's place during the Second Gulf War which we know as Operation Iraqi Freedom, Telic, and Falconer. It follows the United State's Army, United States Marine Corps, Australian Army, and British Royal Commandos as they fight their way from the Iraqi/Kuwaiti Border all the way to Baghdad, and the Soldiers in the North moving south into Baghdad.

Source: Frontline Message Board
A brand new FMB has been launced. Check them out.

A new F-M-B.org has launched.

A brand new look has been put online for Frontline Message Board (F-M-B.org). For a long time I did not want to make a a new design, the old
one did it's job (Although I didn't like the inline frame and some other things) and I was just to busy with other stuff, leaving me with little time
to work on a new look.
But when I saw that Strider image that was hidden on the official Half-Life 2 site (http://www.half-life2.com/secret/strider.jpg) I got a great
urge to make something with it. And today that desing has gone online. The new look no longer has that inline frame, linking to different pages
on the site is now a lot easier and well it just looks a lot better I think :)

With the new look also comes an update for a older feature of F-M-B.org, namely Mod Pimpage. The Mod Pimpage is still here, and mods can stil
apply for a free spot in the add banner rotation, but now something new has joined the Mod Pimpage making it into The Pimpage. The Pimpage
consists of Mod Pimpage and the new Site Pimpage. Were Mod Pimpage is for the Half-Life and Half-Life 2 mods, Site Pimpage is for all those
great and small Half-Life and Half-Life 2 community sites. Site Pimpage offers a free banner add on the site to all Half-Life and Half-Life 2 community
sites. Just my way of thanking the community for it's help, support and kindness. Here some details from The Pimpage page

Source: United Admins

Since the inception of phpUA almost 5 short months ago, it has changed the face of the UA Web Development area. The Engine behind phpUA, written primarily by Mad-X, has taken on a life of it's own and has been adopted by all of the WebDev teams. HLStats will eventually be migrating to it, the Lumen team will be using it, the UA Website will be run off of it, and even the Translator Team will be migrating it's tools over to it.

It is obvious that the phpUA engine has taken on a life of it's own, and it's only fair that it be made it’s own project. It is also only fair that the creator of this wonderful behemoth be the coordinator of the project.

So, without further ado, please congratulate Kris "Mad-X" Splittgerber on his new position within the United Admins team.

Source: The CPL

City of Industry, CA (July 1st, 2004) – MSI®, one of top-tier motherboard and graphics card manufacturers, has signed on to sponsor this summer’s Cyberathlete® Extreme World Championships.
MSI will showcase a variety of gaming hardware to have fun with the 4,000 gamers from 50 different countries attending the event.

During the five-day event (7/28/04 ~ 8/1/04), participants not only will have the chance to interact with MSI’s newly-delivered PC hardwares but will also experience their outstanding performance and fantastic features, which include gaming motherboards, graphics cards, small-form-factor Hi-Fi PCs and multifunctional USB Flash MP3 Players.

Several gaming activities will be held at the MSI booth to allow gamers to fully experience the new products and offer them an opportunity to win special prizes. This is the first time that MSI is working with the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) to reach the hard-core gaming community. MSI is excited about being able to chat and understand the needs of the most demanding demographic in gaming and share with other vendors at the CPL summer event.

Source: Resident Evil: Shadows of Fire
A lot more images are available on thier site.

We have a winner! yes after much going over the entries we have chosen the decided name!
The map has been named....

SH_DisturbingEarth
by vviinnccee
Congrats vviinnccee you have won the chance to Beta test and play your named map!

That's it for now really so I will finish off with a show off all the content we have posted on this map
(nothing new unless you missed the massive post)

Source: Resident Evil: Last Breath
Last Breath has been working hard to release these breath-taking renders. Check them out.

Well we are still young in progress but yet we have got some hl2 work done already take a look at these awsome shots by one of our modelers Tom Kurylo.