The HiT-SQUAD mod for Half-Life 2 has new media available for the public. Here is a render of their latest work, the venerable Desert Eagle .50AE magnum pistol.

Steam News Page

We have just released a Steam update. If you haven't already done so, you'll need to exit and restart Steam.
Here is a list of what's included:

• Reduced the need for clients with fully populated caches to connect to a content server


• Reworked some of the retry logic for content server tickets on the Steam backend


• Fixed weirdness with next/prev buttons in conversion wizard


• Fixed failed login potentially opening two error dialogs


• Added conversion wizard any time a cache for a game is created, if there is an existing installation to convert from


• Fixed bad error messages for connection issues when logging in


• Enabled cancel button on conversion wizard


• Optimized Friends searching with wildcards


• Fixed "NumRegisteredChildern" assert

Source: IGN

ATI Technologies Japan announced today plans to show off Half Life 2 at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show, which is scheduled to open its doors on September 26 at a large, often crowded and always stuffy convention center located just outside Tokyo. The company announced, specifically, that it will be hosting a "Theater Booth" where gamers will be able to "experience" Half Life 2.
We're not sure exactly in what form the game will appear. It could be the E3 trailer all over again, or perhaps we'll get some new footage. IGN will of course be in attendance at the show and look forward to possibly bringin IGNPC its first Tokyo Game Show story -- ever.

Max PC

Bored to tears of all your existing games? Finally – a magazine that shows you how to extend their lifespan by modifying them yourself. The world’s favourite PC game, Counter-Strike, began life as a home-brewed mod for Half Life – and Gamemaker will show you how to get started on this path yourself.
In this 116-page first issue, we show you how to design your own levels, characters, vehicles and weapons for the PC’s biggest and best games. Create brand new maps for leading online shooters, such as Quake III, Unreal Tournament 2003 and Counter-Strike, or 3D model personalised characters to play as. Take to the skies in custom-built planes for Microsoft Flight Simulator, or to the roads in modified cars and cities in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Script and create your own fantasy adventures in Neverwinter Nights and Warcraft III, or design brand new furnishings and characters in The Sims.

New Weapon and Dinosaur

New update today with 2 new screenshots of new Jurassic Rage content. It shows the P90 and the Itchysaurus made by .
Click on the images to see a big screenshot of the thumbnail. Keep in touch with Jurassic Rage at the forums and at IRC. We answer any question and take comments from people in there.

NS v2.01 is now available for download! This is a server-only patch, that vastly improves balance and fixes many exploits.

Some Changes

Lowered marine damage/armor upgrade costs from 30/40/50 to 20/30/40
Increased grenade damage from 110 to 125
Fixed problem where specs can be heard talking before game start in tourny mode
Fixed problem where dead players could sometimes be heard
Voice comm can no longer be heard for anyone during countdown (to allow safe demo recording)

Download! Here
(server operators only, win32/linux included, 1.6 megs)

Natural Selection

Arbron, the newest staff member of the HalfLife-Mods.com, has just written a very interesting review of the new version 2.0 of Underworld: Bloodlines mod. Here is just a part of what you will find in the review. You can check out the full review here.

The Friends server will be down for the next day or so while we make improvements to it.
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Some people might be getting the following message when attempting to login to Steam:

"Login to steam failed. Either the specified account does not exist, or the password was wrong. Please check your email address and password and try again."

This is a bit misleading - your account exists and is fine. The authentication servers are under heavy load right now. This problem should be resolved shortly. Thanks for your patience!

www.halflife2.org, have interviewed the upcoming Half Life 2 mod Citizen-132. The interview is with the mod leader, Stephen "the_s-man" Murray

Staff : First of all, I would like to know your name and your function in the team of the Citizen 132 Mod

the_s-man : My name is Stephen "the_s-man" Murray, and I am the lead Designer, PR officer and Team Manager of the Citizen-132 Team.

Get the Rest Here

Version 2 of the Underworld: Bloodline has been released

"Underworld Bloodline" is a team-based multiplayer HL mod based on the upcoming Sony action movie "Underworld". Rival clans of Vampires and Lycans (werewolves) fight each other while trying to secure a human that hides the power to make them invincible.
The new version 2.0 includes several minor gameplay adjustments (mostly to attend players requests) and a couple new weapons, including the exclusive Black Widow Spider weapon (tm)! There are also two new official maps designed by Neil Manke.

You can get it from here
Full (34.84MB)
Update (8.06MB)