As stated in the previous post, I have been neglecting this site...I hope to change this and many other things. First off I apologize for not posting on a regular basis but do to time constraints I was unable to. I have been going to school each week a total of eighteen hours and have been working at my day job anywhere from twenty to thirty hours per week. Not including time for studying and homework that is thirty-eight to forty-eight hours per week.

Even with this grueling schedule, Half-Life Gaming.com is constantly on my mind. I joined Half-Life Gaming.com back in December of 2002 as a news poster (No I was not the webmaster then). Then in early 2003, not to long after joining, the site administrator left due to personal reasons and I took the reigns. For a time, I received help posting news from various people and I thank them greatly but just as the previous admin, life caught up to them.

From then on until present day I have been posting news alone with the exception of some great and not so great help along the way, and have kept Half-Life Gaming.com alive ever since. I enjoy posting news for this community that I have been apart of since I purchased the game back in 1998 and I have never once been paid to do this service. I have over the years dedicated countless hours in posting news, updating this site, and helping out all of the hosted sites here on Half-Life Gaming. Now over three years and almost four thousand posts later (with over seventy-five percent of those being mine) I am once again asking for your help.

I have been wanting for sometime now to expand Half-Life Gaming.com from just a great site to get news and hosting site for our beloved Half-Life and related mods, and start to have at least monthly reviews, articles, an active forum, and so much more. On that note I am asking for your help in the following areas:

News Posting

• Probably why most of you enjoy coming to this site is/was the constant update of news. Now you can post the news like I enjoy doing (just sighting the source from where I got it from and copy-and-pasting, adding proper formatting, and then uploading photos if need be) or summarize the news post and also quote a bit from the mod. Keen writing and communication skills are a must in this position as well as a broadband internet connection.

File Uploads

• Something that HLG has been lacking for some time is a nice selection of downloads. You would be responsible of obtaining, uploading and cataloging files pertaining to Half-Life and related subject matter. A broadband connection is required for this position like all of the others.

Content Reviews

• You can be a news poster, file uploader and do content review or just do content reviews; it does not matter. What does matter is knowledge of the community, what is going on, excellent communication skills and most importantly, great writing skills. With this position you would also be working with me to keep all of the other non-news pages up-to-date.

Some other things to consider before e-mailing me

• Are you able to dedicate a few hours every week to doing your job?


• Are you mature and professional enough to be working here? (You must be 16 or older)


• Do you think you will have fun/ejoy this type of work?

If so, please e-mail me at mjcs [ a t ] hlgaming [ d o t ] c o m and please include all information that is needed for the task you would like to help out in. (For the file upload position please provide a sample summary of a file and for all other positions a sample news post or review of a mod (one paragraph is fine) will do.)

Thank you all and I hope to be hearing from you soon.

~ MJCS