The current design document is now online and accessible via the Design menu at the lefthand side. There is plenty more to put in here but I thought it good that everyone can see what we have so far. Next the about page will be simplified and the weapon progress page will be made available.

Here is your first update since the release of beta 1.2..wee! First I would like to mention that we are planning to release a quick patch sometime this week. The patch will take care of the blocking exploit as well as many other bugs found since the release. Thanks to a nifty new tool called Mantis Bug Tracker both harSens and Pcjoe have been knocking out bugs left and right (just check out Joe's dev!). You can check out the bug tracker at http://bugs.esforces.com.

Today we made revisions to the team and testing staff. Concerning the team; Ultraq has been dropped after being MIA for months; Metro-tek/TCiccarelli has also been left the ESF team for his absenses due to medical reasons. On a positive note, we have picked up Zack as a win32 application programmer. Besdies that, there has also been some shuffling with the testing staff. You can check out the active beta testers in the staff section of the site.

Valve was kind enough today to show the progress of their much anticipated sequel to one of the best PC games ever---Half-Life 2. The demo wasn’t so much for showing off earth-shattering news about the gameplay, but rather just to give folks an idea of their progress since last E3, and for the developers to show snippets of some of their favorite moments from beta testing as well as give hints about the beginning of the story. Valve’s Eric Johnson, of Valve, was on hand to provide explanation for the scenes we were about to witness.

One week ago the arrested presumed Phatbot Entwicker Axel G. respectively "Ago" was obviously working at full capacity with the programming of the Trojaners. It time for various activities remained, about break-downs in stranger of systems. After searches of heise on-line "Ago" was considerably involved in the spectacular source code theft of the PC play Halflife 2. Indications for its co-operation are even in publicly accessible Chatlog files.

In September 2003 the code in the InterNet, geklaute by servers of the US-American Halflife manufacturer valve, had been published. Valve does not have the long expected play until today into the sales to give . When indicated reason for the fact that the SOURCE code did not only betray the most important bases and software techniques, but also an inadvertent knowledge jump provided for Cheatern, which want to provide advantages opposite other players in such Multiplayer Games. After information of heise on-line numbered US-American determination authorities the developed damage on more than 100 million US dollar.

The End of All is going to be an all original mod for HL2... of course it's going to be and FPS game.. but it's also gonna be greatly focused on a horror aspect... basically ideas are still being worked out by me... for sure it's definantaly gonna have a 1 player and multiplayer modes... but I can tell you that chances are that your going to pee your pants at multiple points in the game ..... Tho I myself won't really be able to do any hands on work till I get a better comp, but I can tell you all that i'm going to be trying to do some concept art (even tho my ability to draw sux ... lol)... but in this mod I really wanna focus on a stong horror factor... heck, if someone has a heart attack playing this mod, then I will know that my job here is done....

As many of you know Half-Life Radio, Half-Life Source, andHalfLife-Mods.com went down to e3 to do live interviews. Well you can see many of the images from you see are from e3 here.

Here is a media update from us over at NMRIH.




From left to right: older Ford model, modelled by wRy, female player whom will be one of a selection of characters, modelled by Turk, the AR-15 modelled by Finchy, and a 2-way walkie talkie, modelled by Fiblah, skinned by Stab, which will be used in game to justify voice comm.

After five months of record registrations, the CPL will close the online registration to the Cyberathlete Extreme World Championships on Monday, May 31, 2004 for the following two categories: Competitor and BYOC (attendee).
Offering registered competitors a last opportunity to complete their teams (or switch to other tournaments) the CPL has opened waiting lists spots for Counter-Strike, Halo PC, Call of Duty and Unreal Tournament 2004 competitions. Furthermore, new BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) spots are now available.

This is the last chance for gamers to participate in the largest gaming competition of the year. Event attractions will include: five official computer game tournaments with $275,000 in cash prizes, a large 24-hour Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) area, CPL's largest exhibition area ever, large spectator arena, new stage hosted at the Intel pavilion, music concert, unofficial tournaments, over $100,000 in merchandise giveaways, and workshops. For more information visit www.cplextreme.com

Pumping out some really good Concept:


Again, nice work by K4_Orta

We have about 100 more photos coming! Just be patient. We're trying to take a day off (grin).

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More to come!