The physics in the single player part (judging from the movies from E3) look absolutely fantastic, but how will physics work in multiplayer? Won't there be a problem with sending all the physics information packets to all the players? Are you perhaps scaling the physics engine down for multiplayer?
Gabe Newell: Well, the simple answer is that there are client-side and server-side physics behaviors. You use client-side when maintaining cross-client coherence isn't important. This cuts down network traffice while maintaining the appearance of physical simulation throughout the world... it's definable per-object, so exactly what's client vs. server simulated is tunable."

United Admins have released a new version of Cheating Death. A handful of bugs have been fixed in this version and several new cheats are now detected but more importantly it will now check to see if the server is running VAC and if it is it will not let you connect unlike the old way of just kicking you out of Half-Life.


Heres the change log

» [CHANGED] automatic autoupdate to start five seconds after starting to fix server browser launcher problems. (If game is running autoupdate doesn't start.)
» [CHANGED] Improved some detections.
» [FIXED] false Code[46] for some Natural-Selection players.
» [FIXED] bug that caused Cheating-Death to skip important checks on Windows 95/98/ME.
» [FIXED] bug causing crashing for some users.
» [ADDED] new detections.
» [ADDED] code to check if server is running in VAC secure mode before connecting.

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As summer is near, we are starting to gear up for the new times. Some if not all of the posters on this site are reviewing for their final exams and are very busy at the moment. This will all change in the middle of June.

We have uploaded some new movies on Half-Life 2. You can download them by going Here. For some of them you will need a quick-time (apple/qt) player. If you have any news on H-L/H-L 2 please e-mail us at news@hlgaming.com, you will be credited.
On another note...we will be adding a large Half-Life 2 section with video links and more images than found anywhere else on the net. Stay tuned for more details.

I was over at The SnarkPit earlyer today and I saw a post saying about a Half-Life 2 and I beleve its the one that has been shown at E3.

The video is totaly amasing and you have to watch it.

anyway here's the link

Sturmbot v1.6 has been released which supports Day of Defeat V1.0 Retail and Download.

Alot has been changed in this version heres some of it

Added:- Dod 1.0 support
Added:- Bots now use bazookas.
Added:- Bots will now find it harder to detect enemies in dark areas.
Added:- "botteambalance" command - bots will switch teams to ensure equal teams
Fixed:- Bots will reload their weapon if the clip is half empty
Fixed:- Bug that made Sturmbot crash if a player said a very long message.
Fixed:- Bug that could cause Sturmbot to crash after switching maps.
Fixed:- Bug that made bots sometimes stand still after teamkilling someone.

for the rest head over to there website

during some play testing for The BattleGrounds mod they have been playing on a map made by Predator called bg_forestroad and they have posted some screenshots of it and here are a coupple of them

[url=http://www.bgmod.com/images/news/forestroad01.jpg][/url] [url=http://www.bgmod.com/images/news/forestroad02.jpg][/url]


They are also looking for some skinners (both player and weapons), meshers and player animators. If you are interested head on over to there forums with your details and some samples of your work

Planetsidegaming.com, The newest of the edgenetwork sites has just been launched so please go check it out here. It Covers everything you need to know about PlanetSide!

Well now that the press embargo is now over there has been a mass of websites giving out information

Here are the ones that I have found

Gamespy they also have a nice pic of the new G-Man

[url=http://www.gamespy.com/asp/image.asp?platform=PC&image=/previews/may03/halflife2pc/05.jpg][/url]

IGN preview these have the same pics as most other places

GameMarshal these have some new screenshots that I have never seen before plus some shots of the new version on Valve Hammer Editor

Activision has released this press release to let everyone know that Day of Defeat can now be found in stores for $29.99