Source: Black Dragon

I would like to start off today by thanking everyone for the positive feedback regarding the updated backstory. It will now serve as the basis for the rest of our development.

As well, I would like everyone to welcome two more members into our ranks:

Kittycat: Concept artist

Excellent work has been done by this individual. His style is different then the rest of our artists, so I am really looking forwarding to seeing his vision of Black Dragon.

SpaceAce: Modeler

This guy entered our forum with a work in progress of the trooper transport concept we showed before. His work is excellent and he will be a big boost for our team.

I would also like to thank Warhead for all the awesome recruiting he has been doing as of late. Each week brings in more people that help to make our team more complete.

Thanks everyone for reading these little updates and see you next week.

Source: The Trenches

The cover of darkness was used by armies to sneak out of their trenches to retrieve bodies, install barbed wire, repair trench defenses, or to go on raids. While some soldiers slept during the evening, officers and sentries kept watch over the no man's land and kept a keen eye and ear for movement outside of their trenches. If suspicious noises were noticed, a sentry may call out a password. If the password was not returned, or the raiding party fired at the sentry, a flare would quickly illuminate the battlefield, often resulting in a furious burst of yells, explosions, and machine gun fire.



Flares could also be used to signal groups from a distance, telling a force to attack, retreat, or flank an enemy. Officers will have the option of sending up a signal flare or an illumination flare but be careful, the flargun is not a useful weapon and an enemy raider could easily take you out before you can alert your men to arms.

Outstanding job Rotzbua, Oelund, and Mach on the Webley Scott and "FEK" Flare guns!

Source: Earth Bound

I have a couple things to show you this week. First off I have created an HLEB Coding Outline. This has been posted in the About section along with another special link that is dedicated to the HLEB Manual! This has been started by SoulStriker and will be released to the public once we are near release. In addition, we are nearing another Inteam release! Almost everything is ready so I hope to be getting some more screenshots for you guys as soon as possible. But until then you're just going to have to settle with a picture of HLEB's Sword of Kings:

Source: The CPL

Former CPL champion Dan Hammans (aka Rix) has signed up to participate in the $25,000 Painkiller tournament after four years of retirement. Dan Hammans had an impressive career at CPL coming in fourth place at CPL's first event in 1997 (The FRAG), then in 1998 he won two USA CPL events back-to-back (The CPL Event and FRAG 2) on two different games (Quake I and Quake II) and then in 1999 he came second place at Extreme Annihilation.

Dan helped found IHOS, the first Clan for players such as Tower, Terminator, Suicide, Thresh and Batch. During T2, IHOS nearly upset the eventual champion Ruthless Bastards. This Clan, and his involvement, were responsible for much of the Quake Clan developments during the formative years of the sport.

Source: Pirates, Vikings, and Knights
Shimber me timbers! Ok I have too much fun with this...

PVK beta 2.3 is here! This release is everything that 2.1 was, but fixes several bugs/cheats/exploits, adds Steam support, adds metamod and amx support, and includes Grogbots. Also, these new maps have been added-

helms_deep
pvk_cartoon
pvk_eldoradob1
pvk_giant
pvk_graceland
pvk_grogboat
pvk_grogboat2
pvk_island2
pvk_omni2

... and more!

Download PVK beta 2.3 here [soon on hlgaming].

HLGaming has been kicking the last few days and I would like to thank you all for helping to make HL Gaming the site it is.

A big thanks goes out to RavenGT for creating all of the CS, CS: CZ, and HL2 Weapon images. This was someting I needed to do but was just pused asside. RavenGT asked if he could do them and I accepted. Thank you.

Another thanks goes out to Chief-Phillips for showing me a better way to arrange the left menu.

There are still about a dozen or so thing I am working on adding to the site. These include but are not limited to:

• A Poll script


• More files


• Map reviews

...

The next few weeks should be faily busy with updates. Untill next time!

Source: Criminal State

Welcome to the home of the half-life2 mod, "A Criminal State".

A Criminal State will be a combination of driving, shooting and fighting multiplayer mod for half-life2, playing in big citys from around the world.
You will be able to walk or drive through the whole citys, and fight in deathmatch against other players online.

For more info check the about section. The game design is still under developement.
We still need people who wants to join the mod team and help creating stuff like models sounds and many more.
For a detailed info check the job section.

Source: Promised Land

The following positions are still needed for Promised Land:

• Skinning
• Sound engineer/voice talent (Hebrew/Arabic speaker or english speaker with accent)
• Mapper
• Animation

If you think you can help us with with any of the above positions, email me with some samples of your work.

Have a 2 new models for you today. Unfortunatly they are still unskinned, as our skinner is on vacation until next week. We have the M-67 Frag grenade, which both teams have access to. We also have the M4, which will equip the Israeli Isyaret class.

Here's the P226, the Israeli Isyaret handgun of choice.

Well, we've been throwing around forums. I will have a phpbb up at the end of the day most likely. In the mean time, we have the Hamas AK47, modeled by Chris

Site is live, with a new host, halflife-2.co.uk, and a new render , the Israeli M24 sniper rifle.

Source: The Somme Valley

In my last news post I told you we were waiting on Quakers latest map build and we've finally seen it. tsv_beaucourt is set during the closing months of the 1916 Somme Offensive, where troops of both sides had not only to contend with each other but also the onset of harsh winter weather. Also pictured is our custom-made WWI style barbed wire courtesy of Mortar.




Also, due to a mixup the last images of tsv_peronne I posted were not the latest so I've reposted them here. I'm sure you'll agree Adolfs new lighting is a great milestone over the old.




Chief will be updating the maps page soon with the relevant info.
Finally, just a reminder that were still accepting beta applications until about Sunday. All the relevant info is here

Source: Half-Life Radio

We will be giving away ATI x800 video cards during a new upcoming promotion with ATI! Listen to Half-Life Radio tonight for contest rules and further details on how you can win! Live show begins at 8pm EST / 1am GMT. There's been some Half-Life 2 publisher news brewing all this week and we'll talk about it tonight! Vivendi Universal has shutdown Sierra. Could the Vivendi downfall have an impact on the Half-Life 2 release? Also, radio staff member Louis Cyphier has an update on when rock band Fear Factory will join us live on Half-Life Radio! Lots of special guests tonight and a few game reviews to cover.

We will be broadcasting live from the #Radio channel on GamesNET IRC. GamesNET if 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!