Source: Blakan Crisi

We have a new teammember: JuLi4N, a player modeler.

He made quite some progress with his first model so expect some updates soon.

Further Vpr made a second wallpaper. You can enjoy it in our download section.

Source: Steam
Minor updates for steam today. Just fixed a few bugs.

An update to the Steam client has just been released. Steam will update itself automatically when you restart. Here is a list of the changes:

• Improved condition causing incorrect "game is unavailable" message


• Improved condition causing re-update and login when Steam is started


• Improved login behavior under Windows 98


• Improved MOTD behavior

Source: The CPL
A new sponsor for the famed CPL Summer event.

City of Industry, CA (June 21, 2004) – BenQ has signed on as a sponsor of this summer’s Cyberathlete® Extreme World Championships event. BenQ will feature a variety of LCD monitors with super-fast 12ms and 16ms response times, slim-line keyboards, optical mice, storage and MP3 players in its booth on the event floor.
BenQ’s digital lifestyle products are ideal for those who enjoy technology products. These products provide a number of attractive features and technology advances that make BenQ a worldwide leader in digital devices for work, home and play.

At this summer’s CPL World Championships event, attendees will see BenQ LCD monitors with 12- and 16ms response times for minimal “ghosting” and “visual stutter,” as well as high brightness and contrast levels, and resolution for amazing picture clarity and sharp images. Other products include BenQ’s new line of slim keyboards and optical mice, DVD +R/+RW drives and popular Joybee MP3 players.

“The CPL is pleased to have BenQ join us for the summer event,” said Angel Munoz, founder and president of the CPL. “We’re excited to see what new offerings BenQ will be exhibiting for our audience to discover. CPL attendees demand and expect the absolute best when it comes to their gaming and entertainment products, and we’re sure that they will enjoy seeing the latest devices from BenQ on display.”

“BenQ is excited to be working with the CPL again for its summer event,” said Charlene Wan, director of Marketing at BenQ. “Aligning with the CPL is a terrific way to create exposure to our broad line of entertainment products with an audience that demands nothing but the best for work and play. We want this very influential audience to know about BenQ and our digital lifestyle products.”

BenQ is an industry leader in networking lifestyle devices with an expertise that encompasses display, storage, imaging, wireless and broadband areas. BenQ has manufacturing plants in Malaysia, Mexico, China and Taiwan. The company has more than 14,000 employees worldwide, supporting a strong global sales marketing and service network spanning Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas. BenQ has research and development facilities in Taiwan, China and the U.S., and has more than 2,000 research and development employees. BenQ has amassed 1,389 global patents. For more information, visit BenQ.com.

Source: The CPL
As the topic says the CPL Qualifiers are this Week!

This week official qualifiers for the $100,000 Counter-Strike tournament of the Cyberathlete® Extreme World Championships will take place in several countries across the globe.
In Europe qualifiers will take place in

1. Belgrade - Serbia (qualifier site)
2. Oxford - United Kingdom (qualifier site)


In North America a qualifier will take place in New York City - United States (qualifier site).

In the Caribbean a qualifier will take place in Bayamon - Puerto Rico (qualifier site). This qualifier will be attended by the president of the CPL.

In South America a qualifier will take place in São Paulo - Brazil (qualifier site)

In Asia a qualifier will take place in Tokyo - Japan (qualifier site)

For exact dates and more information visit www.thecpl.com/extreme/

Source: Half-Life Radio
This week at Half-Life Radio:

If you are a fan of heavy, extreme and technical music then you have probably heard of Fear Factory. The latest Fear Factory song is climbing the charts! Fear Factory is one of the most original, heaviest and influential bands of the last 10 years, if not of all time. One of our staff members, Louis Cyphier, had a chance to share a stage with them twice! In addition to rock stars, the band members have a major involvement in the game industry. Check out their sites: FearFactory.com (their main site), Fear Factory's Fiber Frag (their game site), Herrera Productions Inc..

Source: Hostile Intent

I think the proper thing to do first off is to notify the community that we will be delaying the launch of 1.3 to a tentative release date of July 9th. Our set release date for 1.3 was due the 25th of this month, yet we added a few new team members to the Hostile Intent staff that have been contributing so much in such little time, that we want to make sure that their work gets noticed in Hostile Intent 1.3. I'd like to welcome Rifter to the Hostile Intent team, who will be working on our player animations. Expect to see a few changes in 1.3 because of him; and I would like to welcome long time HI beta tester and community member Bic-B@ll, who will be giving us a helping hand in the mapping department

With that out of the way, yes, it?s been awhile since we last gave you guys an update on the status of 1.3, but that doesn?t mean we haven?t been busy like always. Today I?d like to highlight some work I?ve been doing for Aurora v1.3. Last month I was able to go on leave and visit my parents house (the real hi_aurora) and do some texture work on that trip. I?ve redone almost every texture in the map using digital camera images I took from my parent?s house and imported them for use in Hostile Intent. So the walls you are looking at, the carpet, the tiles and so forth is 100% photo-realistic textures from the maps real life location. I'm planning on taking the trip again next week from Colorado to Washington to finish up some textures that I missed. Who says Hostile Intent isn't dedicated to its work?







Also the mapping department has been extremely busy lately which is largely responsible for the delay of 1.3; yet however expect to see new versions of hi_jungle, hi_russia, hi_majesty, hi_alandalus, hi_twilight, hi_hotel, hi_offshore, and hi_basque?

Source: ABC 7
Not really HL news but i wanted to tell you

MOJAVE (AP) — A jet with a rocket plane slung under its belly took off early Monday on a mission to make the first privately financed manned spaceflight.

The exotic White Knight mothership lifted off about 6:45 a.m. PDT and was to take an hour to reach about 50,000 feet and release the rocket.

SpaceShipOne pilot Mike Melvill was to then ignited the rocket's motor and attempt to soar 62 miles high, then quickly fall back into the atmosphere.

Half-Life Gaming just had the opportunity to interview Illogic from Ghost Ops. You can view the interview here

Half-Life Gaming: Sum up the story line of your mod in about 2 paragraphs.
IllOgic: Basically, its big business versus the government. The government gets themselves in financial trouble; they turn to the private sector, being huge companies like Microsoft etc, to fund weapons research etc, because of the ongoing world problems. After a while, through corruption, and payoffs, the corporations come together, and form an alliance, then challenge the government’s power. This causes a civil war of sorts.


Half-Life Gaming: What kind of Melee attacks will there be implemented into the mod?
IllOgic: Our melee attacks are similar to halos. every weapon in the ghost arsenal you can hit someone over the head with, like in halo. This will cause the player to reel, and controls to be backwards, etc.

Source: modDB
Related: First Moon

We have been busy for last month - we are bringing you three new artworks and two final renders. HealthBot (first concept) is small robot, which you will use for healing and recharging. Helluva Carrier is a large dropship used for transportation of the police forces (third concept). And the flitter, displayed in the first render, is a car-like hovercraft - several types of this vehicle will fly over your head...

Many things have been happening to the site if you have not already noticed. Many of the uncomplete sections have been finished.

Here is a list of the finished or redone sections:

• The Right and Left menus


• Credit/Staff Page


• Newsletter Page


• CS Weapons Page (Images are being re-done)


• CS: CZ Teams


• CS: CZ Weapons


• HL2 Intro


• HL2 Weapons


• HL2 Concept Art


• Misc updates to many pages

Big thanks goes out to Chief-Phillips and Raven for helping me out a bunch. Much more coming your way this summer so stay tuned.