As you may have known halflife2.net recently lost its host. We are trying to sort this out but in the mean time we have obtained some hosting on a new server kindly provided by Burstfire. Until the halflife2.net domain updates (which should be 24 hours) you can access the forums here. The main site will be up in a few days time.

The e-mail is now back up. For some reason we could not recieve anything but we could send. Sorry.

If you havent seen it already I have put a new feature on the site...the Picture Of The Day. You can submit your pic here or view the gallery here

Vivendi Universal Games confirmed today that Half-Life 2 will not be able to make its scheduled September 30th release date. It's been moved to be released during the holiday season. We will have more information soon. Valve might have ran into some problems or something of the sort so just be patient and they will release it when they can.

Nickster from Half-Life 2 Source has interviewed Gabe Nwell, Chris Bokitch and Dhabih Eng form Valve and he has managed to get some new info from them.

Nickster: Will HL2's multiplayer support over 32 players?
Gabe Yes.

Nickster Will we have to wait another 5 years for HL3?
Gabe I have no idea. Its a question we get to think about once we'er done with HL2.

You can read the Interview Over at Half-Life 2 Source

There is a new Steam video available from Steam or from edgefiles. This video is bigger than all the rest at a nice 185mb.
http://www.edgefiles.com/file.x?id=/hlgaming.com/www/Videos/hl2-traptown.exe

The Natural Selection 2.0 trailer has been released! Check out our official news site Ready Room for details!
High Res DivX 5.05 AVI (64Mb) - ns-hires.zip
Low Res DivX 5.05 AVI (22Mb) - ns-lores.zip
Windows Media Format (32Mb) - ns-wmv.zip
Remember, Natural Selection 2.0 releases Thursday, July 31st!!!

United Admins have released a new version on Cheating Death

In response to various problems both players and admins have been having in recent days, a new version of Cheating-Death has been released. Some multithreading issues have been fixed in in the server version, as well as segfault on malloc() and shared library problems on the linux server. Client versions hanging or even crashing under certain circumstances have been resolved, and of course there are the obligatory new detections.

As announced earlier today at the official Natural Selection newsite ( Ready Room ), the NS 2.0 trailer will be released this coming Sunday evening, July 27th!

This trailer comes in 3 sizes to satisfy everyone from detail freaks to 28.8 modem users,and is powered by both Divx 5.0.5 and Windows Media Player (WMV) format. It's almost 4 minutes long and includes TONS of fantastic ingame action showing off many terrific new features for 2.0. It is made by the great professionals at Chaos Films ( Chaos Films ) in conjunction with the NS Development Team ( Natural Selection ). We think people will really enjoy it, and we hope you do to!

Remember that all files will be uploaded to edgefiles once we get them so you can download off of fast servers.

Monkeystrike have schedualed a release party for version 1.0.

Due to the upcoming release of Monkeystrike 1.0 we are going to have a release party in our lovely irc channel #ms-mod on the even more lovely irc.gamesnet.net
The party will start at 17:00 GMT (12:00 EST) and the url will be announced during/after that party.

The server versions for Linux and Win32 will be released today, some hours earlier.

This will take place today so if you can make it pop on by