DoDNetwork has got some pics of the Forest map for DoD 1.1 from Tim "Waldo" Holt.

The pics show new textures and quite alot of grass which should provide a nice amount of cover and some interesting game play




The rest of them can be found here

Half-Life.org have interviewed Neil Manke and Einar Saukas (makers of They Hunger) from Underworld: Bloodline

Dabaz: Approximately how long did you have to keep this project under wraps?
Neil Manke/Einar Saukas: We kept this project secret for the entire development cycle (a couple months), right up until the release day.
John Callaham at HomeLan Fed kept on our toes most of the time, asking for information on our secret project, which is the reason he scored the first interview with us right after the release (the squeaky wheel gets the grease).

To read more of this interview head on over to Half-Life.org

Here's some pics:

Public Enemy have released v1.2

Changelog:

- MP5 SD Zoom should work properly
- The "setsec" and "setsyn" commands should work now, see the manual for more Information
- When using Metamod the MP5 should no longer be unavailable
- Akimbo weapons will not reload until both weapons are empty
- Dead players can no longer talk to the living ones
- If a Player uses the orbital device all the others now see a text warning message
- The red screen when taking damage is less disturbing
- On a players death the points are no longer reset to 30. See the manual for more Information
- There is now a team bonus for each player of the winning team even if the player dies
- The terminals now have names
- Added a counter to display the time remaining until a terminal is irreverably hacked
- The music volume is now turned down if a player uses the HL internal voice communication,
use the "cl_talkmusicvolume" variable to set the reduced volume value.

For the rest of the changelog check out there website.

The Files for Public Enemy can be found here

Planet Half-Life have had a chat with some of the people from Valve and its quite interesting it also strys twards the technical side of the source engine aswell

ColdW|SidewinderX: How will the weapon sysytem be set up regarding viewable models in1st and 3rd person view. Will the same mesh be used for both or will it use a system similar to HL1 with the _w _p system?
valve|gaben: Weapons have two models - the in-view model and the world model (seen in 3rd person).

You ca read the rest of this over at Planet Half-Life

This is a nice review of Natural Selection done by Europes very own boomtown.net
From Boomtown.net Article

Running down a high tech corridor with lights of strong contrast flashing by me. I can hear the sniffling sounds of the alien creatures gaining on me from behind. I take a quick left and find myself in a dead end. I turn around and brace myself for what is coming. My whole squad whipped out – ambushed by small four legged aliens sitting in the ceiling that made fast attacks, killing one of us at a time and then retreating to the shadows. Everybody is gone… but me. I check my ammo meter, making sure I’m locked and loaded. I look up and I see 1…2…3 alien creatures of varied sizes. They make a hissing sound as I squeeze the trigger to unload round after round in to the pack. They scatter; the smaller ones climb up the walls and try to get behind me while the big one goes for a frontal attack. I unload my whole mag’ into the one coming at my front but it just keeps coming. Switching to my alternative weapon, a fiercely fast Automag like pistol, I pull the trigger repeatedly. I shoot another 10 rounds in the beast before it falls down, dead.

International Online Soccer has a league starting up. The preseason friendlys will be starting on the 10th of August so I you have a clan of 5 members and are interested then you can sigh up here

Castor Troy (hey thats me) released a new video today for the upcoming mod Hostile Intent. This mod probably has the record for most time in developement without being released (hint: before TF2). Download Me. Note: Video required you to have DIVX 5.0.5 decoder. Get it here

The Trench Rats have updated with some nice renders of the .303 Vickers Machene gun.

The BattleGrounds have released a render of there weapons for 1.3 and by the looks of it there progressing realy well.

Gamestar, a magazine printed in Germany, has reported that an ATI video card, the as-yet unreleased 9900 pro, will be bundled with Half-Life 2. If this is true, then it will most likely make for a game that you have to pay $450 for. They are also reporting that the gold date for HL2 is September 13th. Assuming that is correct, Valve has about 40 days to complete the game, if they want to release it on the 30th.