Source: Half-Life Radio

We had Gabe Newell & Doug Lombardi on twice yesterday on HL Radio. If you missed it, we will have them on again today! We will also have addtional ATI Technologies staff on the show, and UBiSoft. We are live from E3! We have many guests today! Nathan from CSNation will also be joining us live! Stay tuned to HL Radio for more details. Live Show starts at 7pm EST (12am GMT)

Source: Half-Life Mobsters

We here at mobsters would like to give our famed modeller Alpha a shout out to say Happy Birthday man and thanks for the great work....hush hush now because he turns 23 today *woooo ;-D*

Now in light of his birthday we have some new screen shots for you to feast your eyes on...though we are coming along slowly we definatly are worth the wait for new images. Enjoy all.

Cram-Out.

Source: PHL

IGN/GameSpy have a Hi Res 700+ meg capture of the E3 2004 Half-Life 2 showing in both theaters (total running time: 24:55)! Done once again with love by GSI's own media wiz, Ryan O'Donnell. There really isn't more to say, get it now!

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Source: Half-Life Radio

We had Gabe Newell & Doug Lombardi on twice yesterday on HL Radio. If you missed it, we will have them on again today! We will also have addtional ATI Technologies staff on the show, and UBiSoft. We are live from E3! We have many guests today! Stay tuned to HL Radio for more details. Live Show starts at 7pm EST (12am GMT)

Source: Eternal-Silence
Source: Front Line Message Boards

Hello all ES2 fans and visitors!

Today is the start of our new, official contest for making a banner for Eternal-Silence 2. Here are some ground rules

- Must be 88x31, you also could do 133x55 pixels as well. Note: We actually prefer that you submit both so you have a larger chance of getting your button posted on different sites, and saves the hassle of us resizing it and such.

- Animation is allowed.

- Filesizes: <10 kb for still images. <30 kb for animated images.

- Must use some type of art from our gallery.

- Three suggestions for banners are a UTF Style, GM style, and a neutral style. You have the option of doing any 3 if you want or you could do one or two. Your choice.

- No profanity of any kind (language or image)

- Must say "Eternal-Silence 2" on it. If you can squeeze in "A Half-Life 2 Mod" as well, that would be super. But don't force the second one in if it covers the image.

- Please make a visible link of "www.eternal-silence.net" on it. This would probably be able to fit in on the large banner size. However, since clicking on the link will bring you to our page it would be better if you have it, but not enforced to have it.

- Please include your source image file (PSD or whatever) and the final, compiled image in a GIF/JPG as that is what complies with most sites.


Prize:

The winner will have a guaranteed beta testing spot for Eternal-Silence 2 once the time comes. The tester will be required to have their own, legal copy of Half-Life 2. No exceptions. But heck, who wouldn't want to buy Half-Life 2 anyways!


How to submit:

There will be a thread in the General Discussion for banner submissions. Simply attach your file (.zip preferred) to your post and maybe a little description like what banner sizes, what styles etc etc.


When to submit:

Any time before May 25, 2004. One fortnight basically. And for those who don't understand English very well, or never read Shakespeare, a fortnight = 14 days See, ES2 teaches you so much stuff!

Source: Half-Life Radio

Our exclusive coverage of HL2 begins today from E3! Come visit the HL Radio staff today as we give away free HL Radio T-shirts, key chains, headphones, mouse pads, posters, and Palm Pilots! We are located near the HL2 Theatre. The radio crew is there!

Today we find out more about HL2 as Valve presents new information and the demo. We will finally learn when the HL2 full release will be, along with the SDK and news about info relating to Team Fortress 2!

We will start our live broadcast at 7pm EST (12am GMT) which is an hour early than the regular scheduled program. The guests today will include Valve's Gabe Newell & Doug Lombardi, several members from ATI Technologies, UBiSoft, and Vivendi.

As we take the stage at E3, we will broadcast the HL2 presentation on the radio. You will be able to hear public reaction LIVE! Live interviews with public reaction will begin immediately following the HL2 presentation. Hear what people saw and what they think.

Soon after the HL2 presentation, we will begin feeding VIDEO of the demo and other movie trailers for you to watch.

Tune into HL Radio for HL2 Exclusive Coverage from E3! It's going to be a big show tonight, so don't miss it!

Source: The Wavelength

I'd like to announce the first release of my new project, Percy's Persistence Engine. (Percy is short for Persuter.) This engine consists of some client software which should be included in the Half-Life or Q3A server project of your mod, and some server software that should be run on another computer. The Half-Life or Q3A games (or any other games) can then save and load information to that computer, and associate that information with a name and password. This, as you can imagine, can have many uses in any mod. The software's very alpha right now, so please see this more as an opportunity to test forward-looking software than a hard and fast solution.

(This name, by the way, is taken from Flor's Persistence Engine. Basically, I decided that SOMEONE should have written one.)

Source: Hl Rally

Hi Folks!
HL Rally beta 1.1 is now out!


Features of 1.1 include:

Half-Life Rally Beta 1.1
Released 12 May 2004

Code
====
Fixed: Can no longer select model through Steam Browser
Fixed: MP3 volume and balance being reset on change song.
Fixed: mp_timelimit is now functional
Fixed: mp_timelimit and mp_fraglimit don't take effect till end race
Fixed: mp_prerace, mp_numlaps & mp_racemode are no longer set in rally.cfg
Fixed: rally_manual 0 is default now
Fixed: Spectator overlay showing when choosing car
Fixed: Gears flipping between neutral and first when not moving
Fixed: Wheels didn't rotate
Fixed: Camera gets reset at beginning of race
Fixed: Spectator and Bot commands now in kb_act.lst
Fixed: Added our default setup to kb_def.lst
Fixed: Radar didn't show in in-car view
Fixed: Bots disappearing with mp_racemode 2
Fixed: Hot Potato mode is now functional again
Fixed: Possible crash on startup
Fixed: Sometimes ab_ and hp_ race modes wouldn't register
Fixed: Sometimes map change wouldn't register
Fixed: Car customisations disappearing (?)
Fixed: FPS chunking issues caused by non existant player models being
passed into studio model renderer / rally effects code.
Fixed: Restoration renderstate after render of all chrome / triapi calls.
(should fix any glow rendering problems people had?)
Fixed: Re-enabled back face culling for models.
Fixed: Cars drop instantly to the ground, rather than waiting for finish
of 3,2,1, go sequence.
Fixed: Model flipping at start of race.
Fixed: Bots are enabled for track development purposes.
Fixed: Line at bottom of Steam BG
Fixed: Popping noise from VGUI sounds
Fixed: Impreza engine sounds better
Fixed: General optimisations throughout. Should gain a ~10% increase in
framerate.
Fixed: Other miscellaneous things
Added: mapinfos for each map
Added: Timer to HUD for Hot Potato Mode
Added: Blank autoexec.cfg and userconfig.cfg to fix some issues
Added: New Maps (see below)
Fixed: HP client leaving with bomb
Fixed: Radar leaving disconnected players
Fixed: Default mp_timelimit 12 - server.cfg
Fixed: Crash on select car / animation / customize

Maps
====
ab_baume:
1. Smoothed out some terrain so the car doesnt pop into the air so often.
2. Added fences and checkpoints to keep players from cutting a few corners.
3. Added 10 seconds to the start time
4. Added player_respawn entities so typing kill wont send the player back
to the start.
5. Fixed two sticky points in the uphill turns

rc_wintervalley
1. Added 15 seconds to start time
2. Removed a bunch of info_starts so you dont start in the very back.

rc_wintervalley2
1. Added 15 seconds to start time
2. Removed a bunch of info_starts so you dont start in the very back.
3. Added info_player_respawn so typing kill wont send you back to start.

rc_mistress
1. Added respawn points
2. Added detail textures (r_detailtextures 1 to enable)

hp_carpark
1. New!

hp_freeway
1. New!

hp_tricle2
1. New!

Half-Life Radio

Things here at E3 are looking good for HL2. The presentation is tomorrow (Wednesday). It really does appear that Valve is going to pull something big for Wednesday. A lot of hard work and planning went into the presentation and everyone seems confident. Perhaps a release date is right around the corner for both the game and the SDK. It's either that, or the E3 limelight is talking. We will find out for sure on Wednesday. We will broadcast the HL2 presentation live on HL Radio as it happens from E3. We will also interview public reaction immediately following the presentation. Guests for tomorrow night's show include Gabe Newell & Doug Lombardi from Valve Software, ATI Technologies, Vivendi, and UBiSoft. Stay tuned to HL Radio as we broadcast information as it happens.

I just got word that Half-Life 2's official website has been launced. So check it out. There is really nothing new on it but its a nice site :)