I got an e-mail from Amy at Sony pictures today stating the following:

For Screen Gems new vampire/werewolf movie "Underworld," we've teamed up with Half-Life and I'm excited to tell you about a new mod we released today. The game is a variation on capture the flag over two pretty large maps. The thing that makes this version different is that instead of flags each team is trying to capture a live character. Players choose to be vampires or Lycans (werewolves) and battle through a cityscape, subway tunnels, sewers, the vampires' mansion, over rooftops, and on trains. The goal is to capture the Hybrid, a part-vampire, part-lycan character who can help win the ancient war between the two clans.

John Callahan from Homelan Fed previewed the game and here is what he had to say, "We got a chance to play the mod for a bit yesterday and it's shaping up to be neat little mod that can be best described as "Counter-Strike with horror elements" with teams of Vampires and Lycans, each with different classes and special abilities, facing each other in two large maps that have some great and creepy looking textures."

I think your audience will enjoy this mod so feel free to post this link on your site. If you would like to host the game yourself, please email me so we discuss this.

To download the game, go to here

Here are some specs on the game:
. Half-Life 1.1.1.0 required
. 2 game maps
. New variation on "capture the flag" using a live target
. 16 players per game, teams made up of Vampires and Lycans (werewolves)
. 8 distinct character models (4 Vampire and 4 Lycan)
. Each side has superhuman powers
. 10 weapons, including throwing stars, whips, automatic guns, grenades, and knives
. 2 hidden super weapons
. 4 timed rounds per game, players switch sides each round

Also check out the video at edgefiles

Here is a list of all hosted sites

Acro Half-Life
Armada
Cash Car Star
CrackerJack Level Design
DOD Editing Center
Evolution Level Design
Friendly Garg
Gimp In The Sink
Hammy-Bob
High Octane
Jedimod
Jungle Mist
No More Room In Hell
Nuke
Polymoprh
RustBucket Level Design
Swarm
Vercon Systems

Do you want to be hosted? Then e-mail us at hosting@hlgaming.com and we will review your request ASAP

Quasar did an interview with Black Panther from The Battle Grounds you can find it on our news post here HalfLife-Mods.com or the full interview Here

Quasar: What made you want to make this MOD?
Black Panther: Well I'm not the founder of Battle Grounds. I was looking for a mod with already a released beta because all the previous mods i worked on were never released. At the time i joined the BG team Ben had just taken over leadership from Negion who was one of the founders and responsible for the early 0.5 and 0.6 builds. I did general design, art, models and PR. And after some months Ben retired as leader and encouraged me to take his job and here we are now.

Our friends at www.ausns.org have been kind enough to host a brand new short NS 2.0 movie which shows off some action on the newly revised NS_Hera level. It is a 4MB Windows Media Player file.

They would also like announce that there will be a live shoutcast broadcast from the guys at www.nsradio.net on July 30th (that's one night before release - July 31st) at 8PM CST (9EST/6PST/0200GMT) that will feature a two-hour interview with Charlie 'Flayra' Cleveland, creator of Natural Selection. More details on this at www.readyroom.org for those that wish to submit questions to this live interview!

All this week they are running a feature at showing off exclusive new shots of all NS levels. So far they have run for two days and shown off NS_Mineshaft and NS_Origin. More to come tonight. There are also plenty of links to other site's exclusives for these levels.]
The movie and screen shots will be available later today here on hlgaming.com

The Specialists have released the Linux server patch only check out there website for the mirrors

Monkey Strike will be realeased on the 25th of July which is this friday,

They have also released a trailer for Monkey Strike you can find the links on there website

Halflife.org has interviewed Christoffer Rødvik from The Little People

Snibbit:

Dabaz: Now what has the initial response been to the Little people’s new ideas on modding and how to structure a mod team, throughout the community, as you have seen them, or has the response not really been what you had thought it would be?

Christoffer Rødvik: Well basically we are pretty new, and as you said this is a new concept in the community. We have seen small map groups, model groups and so on but a huge independent mod group is something new. As of now we haven't been seen by many other teams but so far the response has been really good from the public.

You can read the rest of the interview over at halflife.org

Thats right version 2 of The Specialists is out and comes in at a heafty 120MB download and there is no patch from 1.5

2.0 Features:

-more than 30 real weapons (pistols, rifles, grenades, knives, swords..)
-possibility to use the slowmotion also in multiplayer, slowmotion can be used anywhere by everyone also at the same moment, the same for slow-pause
-a lot of movement freedom: dives, airflips, rolls, wallruns, walljumps and so on.. added bacwards flip, backwards roll, walljump & wallrun from 1.5
-New climb system, also allows to perform wallruns
-a complex kung fu system kicks, punches, air kicks, flips, and some special attacks.
-great combat freedom , just play with your style.
-possibilty to customize the weapons with silencers , scopes, lasersights and flashlights.
-some powerups to use, like the superjump (the old "low-gravity") , slowmotion , infinite ammo, powerful kung fu and so on..
-different gameplays DeathMatch, Team DeathMatch, Teamplay with objectives, Last man standing...
-more than 20 maps (25 total) , many ispired by the most famous action-movies
-bots included, to play offline (type "addbot" in the console)
-an advanced particle system that permit special effects like 3d muzzleflashes, gun smokes , explosions..

you can see a list of mirrors for it at The Specialists

A fresh mod that has recently gotten hosting here, No More Room in Hell has just made their site grand opening .

The Mod for HL2 by the way, pits humans against zombies, in a midwestern city in the US. For more information visit their site, No More Room in Hell.

I highly reccomend that you watch the progress of this mod as it seems to be going quite smoothly.

Sven Co-op interview:
HomeLanFed

Timmay: What can we expect to see with the Half-Life 2 version of this mod?

Sven Viking: A lot. I’m afraid we can’t talk about much of it just yet, but I believe that it will be much more enjoyable and satisfying to play than Sven Co-op (and I really, really like SvenCo-op). I’m exceptionally excited about getting to play it myself, once we have an alpha set up.