Avid Gamer have interviewed the Last Great War team leader Mith.

Audio Is your mod more comparable to, say, Battlefield 1942 or Day Of Defeat?

|LGW|Mith some may say we're a hybrid mix. We're going to have a bunch of our own unique elements. Hard to sum up in a few sentences, we'll be an infantry-based realism TC with vehicles as support and transportation. No player aircraft are planned, and some things we have the others dont off the top of my head is iron sites, muzzle velocity, and a new twist on stamina/health.

A full list of current changes in the upcoming Version 3.0 of SvenCo-op has been posted on http://www.svencoop.com/. The list includes only changes made since the last public release, and does not include features that are still in development, so there'll be a few more before 3.0 ships... there are currently well over 100 items, however. A large percentage of these features have not been previously disclosed.

Features
- Opposing Force Grunts added, including Torch (explodes when fuel canisters damaged), Medic (heals players and allied humans), SAW, and Normal grunt types. Friendly and Hostile versions of each type are available.
- Shock Trooper Spore Grenade added
- Added Black Ops Osprey Helicopter
- New entity: env_spritetrain
- Free Roaming option for mappers - Monsters can roam a level that has info_nodes
- Friendly monsters can follow players with the +USE key
- Blood effects are now clientside
...
AI/Monster Changes

- Monsters now target the Osprey Helicopter at either one of its engines.
- Monsters now duck and cover from Rockets.
- Human grunts can use/abandon controllable turrets (func_tanks) of their own volition, as necessary
- Monsters will now attack enemy barnacles that have prey
- Fixed issue with Sniping Male Assassins reloading if schedule failed
...

more on their website

Go to here to download the file that is available from Steam.

Bumper Cars have released another version with lots of new fixtures and additions

Changelog:

- Hud alerts (in the chat area) shows which power-up you have and how to use them.
- Bomb Power-up Added: You explode taking all those around you with you.
- New map bc_elevator
- Power-up alternation changed to 3 seconds
- Different glow color for every power-up
- Fixed minor scoring bug

You can get it here

HalfLife2.net Has interviewed Eric J of Valve

Here's a little bit:

^Tal^Vano: If we are making a mod and have a character which has a Different face from a human being, Do we have to animate our own lip synch's?
ErikJ: Yes, you would.

for the full interview head over to there forums

The first Half-Life 2 video to be released on Steam is now available.

It is part of the 22 min E3 video that has the G-man in it but it is higher quality.

So if you have Steam I recommend getting this video just to look at it in all its glory.

Water Wars have had a big update to show off some pics of a test build of a CTF level and the freeze effect.

You can find the screen shots here

STATSmeow 1.1b has been released

Heres what it is and what it does

"STATSmeow is a little program that collects your stats as you play DoD. Its almost like Statsme except that it's all stored on your computer so you don't have to go onto a server/website to view your stats. It works on all servers and doesn't effect your ping/fps at all.

You can have multiple player profiles, and can view your overall stats without connecting to the internet. STATSmeow is very accurate and can display the stats from all your games combined and also from separate games you recently played. STATSmeow uses legal commands that are approved by all gaming leagues. It is NOT detected by VAC, Cheating Death, WWCL, or any other client/server side plug ins. "

Changelog:

- Added FG42 (scoped and bipod) Stats
- Added 'Lines Chatted' Stats
- New Launcher program automatically saves stats for you -(No more pushing F12 !!!!)
- The symbols < > " ? | : / \\ * are now accepted in names
- Made GUI more convenient
- Fixed the .30 Cal & Bren bug

and you can grab it from here

United Admins have released v3.3.1 of Cheating Death

Changelog:

- Added new injection method for Day of Defeat retail.
- Fixed engine detection.
- Fixed problems with CS/DoD for some users.
- Fixed false [15] codes.
- Fixed false code[46] with DoD mod version.
- Fixed low FPS for some ATI Radeon users.
- Improved FPS.
- Fixed C-D icon showing in taskbar even when minimized.
- Fixed C-D window not minimizing on Windows XP.
- Changed the challenge

You can get it here

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