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 AUGUST 1998
SitesThere's a new Half-life site called TTLB Half-Life.A new Team Fortress2 page called The TeamFortress 2 Gateway. And a new maps site called USHMD.
-Dann - 3:26 P.M. EST Got news? E-mail us
Help WantedDerailed at Twisted Half-life is looking for a person to help him with news on his page, now that he has an auto-update program written.Found on Contaminated.net -Dann - 10:23 A.M. EST Got news? E-mail us
3D PaletteThe 3D Palette has set up a page where you can vote on the entries to the contest they held. Winner gets a copy of Half-life.-Dann - 8:35 A.M. EST Got news? E-mail us
WaveLength's VisitSpider from WaveLength has posted his visit to Valve here.-Dann - 1:11 P.M. EST Got news? E-mail us
No Half-life in AugustLisa posted something in the Contaminated forums that we don't want to see right now:
Guys: I want to give you an update before people get too anxious over the course of the week, waiting for an announcement from Sierra/Valve. It looks like the announcement
Sierra was alluding to at their party last week is actually going to happen at ECTS, which is in London over Labor Day weekend. We're going to be talking about our developer
support plans and give a status report on Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. (Half-Life won't be shipping in August.)
We know how impatient you all are to play Half-Life and we want to repay your enthusiasm with a fantastic game. We're all in extreme crunch mode and will be until
ship....we're as anxious to play the final version as you are. Thanks for continuing to support us through the tough final push toward gold.
Best, Lisa -Dann - 4:58 P.M. EST Got news? E-mail us
Kingpin RevealedFinally the Kinpin that was mentioned in our interview with Ted Backman, has been revealed as a concept art at WON.net. Here' what I can make out fromt he text:
Top-Left:
Has disabling psionic attack
Top-Right:
Massive Brain files entire body
Center-Right:
4 eyeballs give 360
Lower-Left:
Clinking Sound as it walks on -Dann - 9:19 A.M. EST Got news? E-mail us
Atomic's InDeepAtomic Half-life has posted another movie from the preliminary finding's CD in RAR format. The movie is ~22Meg.-Dann - 8:46 A.M. EST Got news? E-mail us
New ScreensTwisted Half-life has posted 10 new scans from September's Gamer's Republic magazine. They show some new monsters and effects.
SitesA new Half-life site has popped up, called HL BattleGrounds. He needs a host so he can post all that good stuff that hosted sites can ..er.. post.-Dann - 8:42 A.M. EST Got news? E-mail us
New MPGSleepnever Central just released a new MPG from PC Accelerator magazine's CD. The new movie shows the tentacle smooth movements and how it kills a scientist and you!!! Get it here(14 meg) while its hot!!! =)Hey Sleepnever Central awakens from its sleepy slumber, welcome back! =) Half-life goes JonesySaw this on Contaminated who've seen this from Twisted Half-life that Indiana Jones teleported along with the aliens. =)
 -Runabout - 10:50 A.M. EST Got news? E-mail us
Site WatchingA new spiffy Half-life site opened named: Level Alpha by Chris Wyatt. A branding a cool design and layout, check it out!Bootcamp a TF2 site hosted by Atomic Half-life. TF2 Embassy has moved to Half-life Haven. Up LateUpdating in 4:30 A.M.!!!!! Shizz!! whats happening to me?!?!? Just read the preview on Voodoo Unlimited Power and RTGN's, read it when ur bummed out for waiting for the game to ship.
-Runabout - 4:49 A.M. EST Got news? E-mail us
Half-life PreviewTheres a new preview of Half-life on VUP3D which is perty good, read it here.sCary also has his preview done from his visit in Seattle and its only waiting verification from Valve, stay posted. 3D Palette Contest Extended3D Palette's Half-life contest been extended till midnight of the 25th, heres the blurb:The 3d Palette Half-Life Artwork Contest deadline has been extended until Aug-25 at midnight.
The reason for this is to let a few people enter who just realized we had the contest and wanted
to enter. This will also give the other people time to tweak their artworks for a couple more days.
-Runabout - 8:49 A.M. EST
Ward-robe movesThe Half-Life Wardrobe has moved to it's permanent host over at Atomic Half-life. And just to clear things up, our hosted skins and models site, The Twisted Zoo was started in early April, and 3D: The Bodyshop also started planning to support Half-life and other game's skins and models, back in late May. So calling themselves the first (and only for that matter) is a little misleading.-Dann - 10:00 A.M. EST
New Movie!Valveworld scored a new Half-life movie from Valve, called "Train", get it here.I haven't d/l'ed it, so its must be new =).
New Skin & Map SitesHalflife.net has two new hosted sites: (both are done by DPG)The Bad Lands a map resource site. WARdrobe a Half-life skins site. -Runabout - 12:01 P.M. EST
PreviewsJust got an e-mail from Cold Fusion:
-Dann - 8:40 A.M. EST
VotingThe Half-life Haven has ended their submissions for the wallpaper contest and are letting you vote on them.
ArticleThere's a new article about moster creativity entitled the Recycling Bin. A good read.
SitesA new art site called, half-art has opened on Contaminated.net.There is free webspace for clans/squads/armies/homies/and whatnot. Here's the letter I ripped of Contaminated.net:
Big Half-life ThingyTwisted half-life has put up the Big Half-life Thingy, Warning: Spoilers, but a great read though.Found on The Half-life Times -Dann - 8:42 A.M. EST
PollThere's a new poll at The Black Mesa Half-Life Center which asks "When do you think Half-Life will be released?".-Dann - 12:24 P.M. EST
More PreviewsJust got an e-mail from Big Al over at 3d Unlimited:
-Dann - 9:26 P.M. EST
-Dann - 3:25 P.M. EST
Decal X-tremeThat VoodooExtreme place, that I keep hearing about, has released a screenshot of their decal. It's a pretty nice one. Check it here-Dann - 10:43 P.M. EST
Cendant saleWith Cendant shedding off some of the software companies. (including Sierra and Blizzard) A lot of fans needed an answer on how it will affect Half-life, here's an e-mail blurb:
OK. Maybe it will affect Fisher-Price Little People Discovery Farm because the Little People
decide to pull the trigger on their Golden Parachutes when whatever IPO/sale occurs, but
everything else is business as normal. So please stop sending me email about this and go back
to sending me mail asking me when exactly this summer the game will ship. Seen that on Blue's
Q&ALineDetail sent Halflife.net some Q's on the game which Valve answered:
Gabe says: We support everything on all of the cards, as well as software (except the water warping
effect). and about your card: it should run pretty well. :) Question #2: I noticed some good players in 1st person shooters use joysticks, should I spend the money
and get one for Half-Life or would you suggest something else? Gabe Says: We all use mouse+keyboard, especially the super hardcore guys. The mouse has a much
higher resolution input than a joystick. -Runabout - 8:08 A.M. EST
SitesZhyla of Half-life Haven has started a page entitled Zhyla's Half-Life Kitchen.Another totally new Half-life site called The Half-Life Depot has opened. Go check both out. Found on Atomic half-life
Contests3dpallette is having an art contest, which the details can be found here.Found on Atomic half-life -Dann - 7:28 P.M. EST
Atomic MovesGood ol' Atomic Half-life has moved to Gameplex. They have a new design and menu done my your truely. And the logo kicks some serious butt.-Dann - 6:12 P.M. EST
sCaryLooks like sCary is heading over to Seattle to play some Half-life. Hopefully he'll have somethin soon.-Dann - 2:41 P.M. EST
TeamFortress2 InfoVoodooExtreme has a little info on the release of TF2 as opposed to the Half-life release:
-Dann - 7:23 A.M. EST
Langsuyar's .planRitual's Matthias Worch updated his .plan on the debate on SiN vs Half-life:
Halflife.Org ContestThere is a new contest up on Halflife.org and Valve which you can win these prizes:Grand Prize: An autographed copy of Half-Life First Prize: A Half-Life T-Shirt. Second Prize: A Half-Life baseball cap. Don't miss out on a FREE Half-life goodies and the GAME, THE GAME!!! SiN vs Half-lifeOn 3D Gaming is a debate going on the subject of "SiN vs Half-life".There are a lot of these kind of debates going on at Contaminated's forums, but for me it aint rational in making the two games clash. *Sheesh* SiN and Half-life are really different games!! Right down to the gameplay, graphics, environment and more. Its the best that we wait for the full release of these games and then take a poke with it. I'm sure that both SiN and Half-life will rule.(Just my .02 on it =) ) -Runabout - 8:08 A.M. EST
DerailedDerailed of Twisted Half-life has gone to Seattle and is visiting Valve right now. Meanwhile his temporary page is back at http://planet.ten.net/~depot/twisted/ for today only.-Dann - 7:06 P.M. EST
Gamer's PortalI'd like to thank Gamer's Portal for listing our site. Their site has a great listing of all sorts of other gaming sites.-Dann - 2:45 P.M. EST
Atomic PollsJust got an e-mail from Dethrone of Atomic Half-Life:
-Dann - 7:16 A.M. EST
BlackmesaJust got two e-mails from Grunt of The Black Mesa Half-Life Center. Here's one:
And the other:
-Dann - 7:28 A.M. EST
SitesThere is a new TeamFortress page up, called TF Academy, which will deal with strategies for TeamFortress including individual characters.Found on Contaminated.net. New site up at warzone, called The Bunker, mainly a Teamfortress2 page.
RevampsAlien HQ has a new look, so go check it out.Found on Halflife.net.
ContestsTwo contests for you to try for. One is at Half-life Haven. For this, you must create a win95 wallpaper, size 800X600.The other is from Contaminated.net. You must be the 100,000 visitor. Go to each site to find out the prizes. -Dann - 2:52 P.M. EST
EditorialsCouple of editorials popped up recently. One entitled: Feeling Left Out? about why Valve is keeping things under wraps. And another entitled: The Spice of Half-Life, talking about the numebr of HL site out there.
Did I post this yetI'm kinda slow sometimes. Here's a new MPEG from Contaminated, because there at PQ and they get all that stuff. There's also some RealVideo versions and Vivo stuff. The video is of player/character interaction.And in other news, they got a trip to Valve and exclusive info on decals so they were first at it and posted a few shots of the decals in action (1 | 2 | 3) , as well as a tutorial to make them. -Dann - 6:59 P.M. EST
WeaponsA new weapons site open at halflife.org. Here' the e-mail i received:
Visit them here. -Dann - 7:12 A.M. EST
Ryan in your FilthOur hosted clan, Roll in your Filth, has officially merged with the really cool DM mod, Operation Overlord (formerly Saving Private Ryan).
Open ReplyAn open relpy to ZaMoose's open letter. It is a very good read. And I have to admit I agree with what both say to an extent. Go read the original letter and the reply.-Dann - 7:42 P.M. EST
Nova Marines moveTintivilo of the Nova Marine's sent me an e-mail about the marines moving:
Tintivilo[NOVA] -Dann - 4:01 P.M. EST
SiN and Half-lifeThere is a mention of Half-life at GamePen's Insider Column: "What's Happening in Gaming!", actually its an editorial for Ritual's SiN Demo and the current state of FPS, which is juxtaposed with Valve's Half-life. Heres the stuff:
-Runabout - 2:18 P.M. EST
VE's Half-life PreviewVoodoo Extreme has its Half-life preview up. Cool who visited Valve's offices a couple of weeks ago has seen the latest build of the game, here's a sampling:
-Runabout - 10:47 P.M. EST
Correspondence Section Opens at ContaminatedContaminated's Correspondence Section is up! Giving the Half-life community the link to the developers themselves. This gives the community (we) the chance to ask Valve some questions and answer some from them.
Submit your Q's at: correspondence@contaminated.net -Runabout - 12:54 P.M. EST
StoryMe and PDC_Blitzkreig (er Blitzkreig and I) have spent a while writing up a nice large story to fill up your time. It's from the views of both the Fastwalker and Panthereye. Go to Twisted to read it.
LinksI went through and redid all the fan links adding new ones and killing old ones and then organizing them by date. And I didn't rate them cause that's not cool. If your site is not on it and it should be, e-mail me.-Dann - 9:28 P.M. EST
EditorialsPlanetquake has an editorial up on how developers/games in the pipeline are having a hardtime pushing it to the release date. Titled: "When it's done", it's a good read check it out.GameSlice has one up too, tentatively titled: "How Soon Is Too Soon?" -Runabout - 5:50 P.M. EST
dx6 released!This is not Half-life related: Direct X 6 is out! (not from the warez thingy!) Download it here. -Runabout - 5:39 P.M. EST
StoriesTwisted has two new stories, one titled Death of a scientist, and Paranoia Begs Me Not To Round That Corner.
Help wantedAtomic Half-life is looking for a new logo. Here' what they have to say:Ok, I didn't think I had to go through the trouble to say this, but Sven and I are in bad need of a GOOD logo for Atomic Half-Life (Here of course :) ). We need a logo that will fit into
something we are working on (secret), and has to be around the size of our current logo (see top). The size is about 375x275 pixels, width being 375, and length 275 pixels. We are
looking for something creative (Please nothing like the logo we have) and we need to have a good pic of a headcrab flying forward in there or something similiar like that. I've *tried* to do
it but hated my creations and got really annoyed/frustrated. If you have some time on your hands and are interested in helping, we'd gladly appreciate it, and if we get enough
submissions, we will keep you posted on which one we think will be good for our little project.
-Dann - 2:56 P.M. EST
Japanese AdsI saw this on Contaminated, which got it from Halflife.net (heh),that Midori was passing around a Japanese ad version of Half-life. (Updated by Dann) The translation to the ad has been given to Halflife.net: Big text top left:
PollsThere are new polls up, go vote some:On Contaminated: "What type of weapon do you prefer in a game: Projectile (bullets, nails, lasers) or Explosives (rockets, grenades, mines)?" And Black Mesa Half-life Center's: "How will you listen to the music in Half-Life?" -Runabout - 11:16 A.M. EST
Planet Half-lifeA new site/planet opened entitled PlanetHalflife, and it's not run/owned by PlanetQuake, so it's sure to be a really cool place. Found on Half-life times/-Dann - 9:56 P.M. EST
Half-life MPG's from E3 are released!Valve has released the movie from E3 presenting Half-life's gameplay, combat, and the use of proximity mines. Download it here (13.4 meg).
"Behind Valve's Closed Doors"Half-life.org's "Behind Valve's Closed Doors" article was updated and a good read as well, added to the list is Brett Johnson.Seen from Blue's -Runabout - 5:58 A.M. EST
HalfAmp fixedHere's a small 12K fix for the HalfAmp skin. I forgot play buttons in Window shade mode. Stupid me. The full download also has the new fix. Full | Patch-Dann - 9:31 A.M. EST
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