The BattleGrounds have updated with a render of one of there new weapons the "hirschfaenger".

Heres some info and the render:

Several new melee weapons will be introduced in the next BG release. The Hirschfänger was used by hessians soldiers who joined the revolutionary war on the british side and fought in the famous battles of Trenton and Bennington. The next release will add the uniform selection rather than a class. Every uniform comes with a unique melee weapon which will not only differ in the model itself.

Sven Co-op have released a preview video of v3.0

Here's a list of the main new features shown in the video:

- Alien Slaves can now revive their fallen comrades. Revived creatures' max health is set to half their previous max health.
- New physics system for dropped weapons. This is only shown briefly... the new system is actually a lot more fun than it looks. You can play "catch" with a grenade, or flip your crowbar into the air and grab it on the way down.
- All humans and some aliens (slaves, grunts) can now take and release control of controllable turrets at will.
- The M134 Minigun
- "MADWHACK physics" (also enabled for certain weapons. Monsters blasted by the minigun fly backwards, for example).


Here's a coupple of pics from the video:

You can get the video from here

A new version of RCBot is out and it now supports Sven Co-op you can get it from here

skulkrush is hosting a Natural Selection mapping competition.

To sign up just make a post in the forum saying that you want in and then keep a eye out on there main page for the starting date.

As promised we give two exclusive (in very early stage) screenshots of one of the new Cat Life maps made by Dark Shadow. Progress has been halted on Cat Life due to the coder's sudden dissapearence, and our headmapper Edgar has left us word that he couldn't work anymore for an unknown period of time. This means we're in need of a new headmapper and coder!



Be sure to check out our site once in a while at: http://friendlygarg.hlgaming.com
Update: click here to visit Cat Life's moddb profile for two more map screenshots and other images.

The Specialists are holding a mapping competition and if you win your map will be in the next version (2.5) of the mod.

Head over to there forum for the rules and to signup

Eternal Silence 2 have released a the model of the Ion Cannon by Cothull.



To see more of the renders head over to there website

Chaos Ops have updated with some renders of grenades.



To see the rest head over to there website.

Armed Forces have updated with a coupple of renders.

The Sven Co-op site is back up (if anyone is still unable to see it, their DNS server should update within the next few hours). A news post has been made discussing the downtime, a previously unannounced feature in SC v3.0, and some new information from Valve regarding Steam mod support.

http://www.svencoop.com/

Source: http://www.natural-selection.org/

Just a quick news update. We are nearly done with our new intense-action mode of Natural Selection, dubbed "NS: Combat". Players get experience for killing enemies, and can use that experience to "level up". Marines use experience to get a jetpack or heavy armor, a better weapon, or to resupply nearby teammates with health and ammo. Aliens can evolve upgrades like cloaking or regeneration, can unlock new abilities, or can evolve to higher lifeforms. Players spawn in waves and advance in groups to maximize kills and share experience. Games are five minutes long and action-packed.
Here are a couple screenshots showing a recent playtest: