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 APRIL 1998
InterviewThere's an interview over at VoodooExtreme with Harry Teasley, an artist for Valve. It's a pretty good read.
More Sleepy PollsSleepnever central is having a new poll dealing with one of the more serious problems cursing our generation: What to call Half-life 'clans'. Some of the choices are clans, teams, divisions, squads, groups, lab groups, classes, scientists, freaks, dorks(that's my suggestion), wimps, fools, and the infamous other
Atomic Fast WalkersSven took hours trying to read all that small writing on the concept art of the Fast Walker pic. I dunno how he did it, but he's got a lot of info on it on Atomic Half-life. I have the pic up on the monsters page, but his is better.
Preview trés coolThis one's awesome preview over at Gamers Extreme telling some new weapns and even a new monster and a new mesh for an old favorite. Well, worth your time. Found on Jaspur's who found it on Voodoo Extreme.
Half-kuOkay that title didn't turn out as I planned but anyway, sleepnever has started a FPS haiku page for all 3-D games.
New ScreensThere was a brief article on Gamespot talking about Half-life's main jist of things. There was also a new screen.Found on eXponential who found it on sCary's. 
Breeding Grounds BreedsThe Breeding Grounds has gotten a nice ORG-like redesign. So go check it out.
EDfanatic part 2Ok, here's the real EDfanatics site.
EDfanaticThere's a new Half-life page up called EDfanatic's Domain. Check it out
Atomic Half-life part 2Atomic Half-life has created a really cool animated Gif of the Gordon Freeman 360 AVI.
Article that contain the word "Half-life"There's an article over on Gameslice talking briefly about a few games including Half-life, and to save you a trip here's the clip:Found on sCary's Last Thursday, I had a chance to see Half-Life in
action, and I must hand it to Valve’s development
team, which keeps adding incredible effects to the
environment, including a killer flashlight effect (the
best I’ve seen yet in a 3D game), flying helicopters,
and a working subway system. Users with 3D
accelerator cards will be amazed by some of the
visual effects , many of which I don’t want to
disclose just yet. Sierra promises that Half Life will
be "feature complete" within a month, and then be
released shortly after that. Summer 1998 is still the
target for the game to be in stores, although I’d bet
its going to be late Summer before Half Life ships.
At this point, the promised story elements that link
all the levels together seem to be missing.
Nevertheless, the game looks incredible, with
strong puzzle elements that are sure to delight
players looking for a fully interactive environment
and more than just a shoot-whatever-moves action
game.
Atomic Half-lifeThere's a sweet new site over at llamanet(gotta love it) run by Sven Viking and Dethrone. Take a look and remember to bookmark.
Been busy with tests as the school year is almost done, so here's the stuff I missed.
+useYes! There will be a +use key in half-life which will make a lot of the stuff you do in Half-life easier. Found on The Breeding Grounds.
HavenThe Half-life Haven has returned and is still building itself back up.
Matthias WorchI was messing around with QBS 'cause I just got it and I read this .plan, and didn't give it much thought, but it seems people are posting it so...
WallpaperThis one's cool. A Gordon Freeman Wallpaper:
DumbheadWhat a pooper, read this article bashing Half-life.
Gabe on IRCGabe was on IRC and spoke some words of wisdom.
Press ReleaseFound this press release from Sierra on sCary's
Sleepy PollSleepnever over at Sleepnever central has started a poll, the first question being "When will the Half-Life demo be released?"
Yo GordonBlue got some stuff, on the main character, Gordon Freeman. He's got a shot, a bio, and an AVI. Found on Jaspur's.
AfterlifeI just got an e-mail from Caelur, who runs a Half-life total conversion page over at Converted2. He's having a logo contest for the site, and wanted me to mention this and the winner when that time comes. The page is located here.
StrangeStrange I forgot to mention this. Guess it wasn't really worth it but, the official Half-life page has a slight site redesign, and one new shot, wheee.
Be QuickQuicksilver (the former webmaster of The Nuklear Decay) is having a logo contest. It is for an upcoming site for a game called Seed. The
logo must say Light Source. The prize is a Half-Life t-shirt, the preliminary findings cd, and a Media CD. Be creative and when you're
ready, send it to Quickslvr@hotmail.com or ICQ it #6809010.
WallpaperThere's another wallpaper made by Necro over at Half-Life Haven.
MoviesAn AVI version of the VX movie came out. It's 46 Meg. Go get it.
PainGood thing I forgot about the Sierra update because this morning I went to it and it WASN'T updated. Maybe today.
Rumors, rumorsFinalthrill was chatting with Psifire, who had chatted with Adam Bormann from Sierra, and he said that the official Half-life Web page should be up with news and 10 new screens around 6 PST (9EST). Found on the breeding grounds.
Preview/InterviewThere's a preview and an interview over at Gamers Zone. Nothing new.Found on Jaspur's.
VX moviesVX half-life came out with a 4.6 Meg real video. Can't get it to work though.
Beta infoThere's some info on Valve's plans for beta testing over at the Haven: There will be a public beta-test for Half-Life
-- it has not been determined how wide a test and how we
will get participants. Date is also TBD although
probably May sometime. Vague enough for you? : ) Touch
base in mid-May -- we'll see where we stand.
All the best, Eric Twelker
New shotsTwo new awesome, totally cool, sweet, skweegy coo, trés bien, skwoosh, er... just go see them at The all new Haven.
HL HQThe Half-life Headquarters is up now over at Tierranet. Go check it.
VX movesThe homies over at VX have moved to Gamestats. Go pay you dues.
Why HL is delayedGive the people a break and read this: There's still a lot of work to be done - play balancing weapons, getting
all of the level specific code finalized, tweaking monsters, and so on.
It takes a long time, because we want Half-Life to be as good as people
are expecting.
It's very frustrating to us, as well to the fans, not the least because
we don't get paid until people buy the product. Most of the money to pay
for development has come out of my pocket, and it's pretty tempting to
hurry Half-Life out the door just so I can recoup some of that. However,
I think that there are a bunch of games that have come out where the
developer or the publisher decided to shove it out the door and hope
nobody noticed all the flaws, and we are committed to not doing that.
We are working with our marketing partners on a demo date, and will let
people know the date as soon as we know the date.
Lastly, I don't want to lie to you and say we won't slip again. The one
thing I'll guarantee is that the game will be as good as we can make it
when it ships. I can guarantee one or the other, but not both. Hopefully
that's the right decision for the product, for us as a company and for
you as a paying customer.
Found on the Breeding Grounds.
More WallpapersThere's another wallpaper made by Radur. Get it here.
Happy EasterHave a Happy Easter and remember the true meaning behind it.
HL indexThere's a new site that provides linx to all Half-life sites called The Half-Life Site Index.Found on the Breeding Grounds.
ZombiesThere's two new screenshots of the scientists being zombified.
WallpaperThere's also a new wallpaper by Dave of VX Half-life.
InterviewsThere's also two new interviews by Dave of VX Half-life. One with Steve Theodore, a modeller and animator, and one with Brett Johnson, a level designer.
First VX picVX Half-life has posted their first picture of their HL preview. It's not of gameplay but just go check it out anyway.
Half-adValve released a new ad for the MACH V using the human grunt and alein grunt to the Breeding Grounds.
More HL datesJust got an e-mail from Sierra:Greetings, Sierra has received numerous inquiries in the past day regarding the official Half-Life Web site's http://www.sierra.com/titles/halflife/) listing of an early June ship date. This listing is inaccurate and, since no specific release date has been announced, the site has been updated to 'Summer 1998.' Half-Life is still on target for a late Spring - early Summer release and the Valve team is working towards hitting in the E3 timeframe. Half-Life is coming along nicely; it's looking great and we're all very excited about it. Thanks for your patience and continued support! All the best, Eric Twelker P.R. Supervisor, Sierra
More HL sitesThere is, or will be soon, a new page over at wasteland started up by Rage.
Dario CasaliThere's an interview on Electronic Telegraph: Connected with Dario Casali talking about level designing.Found on Jaspur's.
Crafty SierrasNeAk from exponential has pointed out that sierra has delayed Half-life until early June. Well, it'll be worth it.
Not HLDon't usually do this but I met the lead programmer of Xevos, and I got a screen shot. So here it is:
Maps and stuffDravisty has started a maps page at halflife.net which can be found here. Also while your there, he wants you to flame his parents.
New SiteMore sites, this one called Half-Life command Central.Found on Half-life Haven.
Pain dayWell, eXponential got 17 more votes Haven got 2 and I got none on the top ten. Fishy
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