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Half-Life 1 / CS Patch Released

by Maarten Goldstein Mar 06, 2007 9:20am CST tags: Steam, Half-Life
According to the Steam website, a new update is now available for players of Half-Life 1 and the original Counter-Strike. The engine now allows you to set 2560x1600 as your screen resolution.
"I wonder if valve imagined they would release a patch allowing 2560x1600 when they were coding Ha..."15 Comments

Steam Updates

by Maarten Goldstein Jan 18, 2007 9:10am CST tags: Steam, Half-Life
According to the Steam website, a Steam client update is now available. It fixes an occasional hang on startup, IP sorting, responsiveness of the favorites list and a few other items. Updates are also available for Half-Life 1 and Source engines.
"finally the favorites and history fixed! I sent a few bug reports over the months of that prob..."3 Comments

Marc Laidlaw Q&A

by Maarten Goldstein Dec 24, 2006 4:15pm CST tags: Valve, Half-Life
Over at Computer & Video Games you can find a Q&A with Valve's Marc Laidlaw. Questions focus on the Gordon Freeman and G-Man characters, and characters cut from the first Half-Life.
"When you go out on a date with Mark, you get laid, and thats... the law"4 Comments

Valve Software Interview

by Maarten Goldstein Sep 02, 2005 6:59am CST tags: Valve, Half-Life, Interview
1UP's Valve coverage concludes today with a two part (one, two) Gabe Newell interview in which he talks about his company, the industry and the next generation of systems. Yesterday they had a story about the history of Valve.
"Wow, it's amazing what developers actually say when they don't have to worry about biting the han..."4 Comments

Half-Life: Blue Shift Now On Steam

by Maarten Goldstein Aug 24, 2005 5:40pm CST tags: Steam, Half-Life
As expected, Half-Life Blue Shift is now available on Steam. It is available for people who own Half-Life 1, the Half-Life 2 Silver package, or the Half-Life 2 Gold package.
"but yea on a side note, before i bought hl2:silver, i put in my hl1:bs cd key, and it unlocked al..."60 Comments

Half-Life, Counter-Strike Updates

by Maarten Goldstein Aug 09, 2005 8:15am CST tags: Valve, Steam, Half-Life, Counter-Strike
Valve has released updates for the original Half-Life and Counter-Strike, offering some game changes and exploit fixes as outlined on the Steam news page.
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Half-Life 1 Engine Update

by Maarten Goldstein Jun 07, 2005 7:28pm CST tags: Steam, Half-Life
The Steam website notes an engine update is now available for Half-Life 1. It fixes several exploits, and also changes the master server query protocol.
"It has been rumored (and somewhat confirmed) for a few months vac2 was for both source and hl1 an..."18 Comments

Natural Selection 3.0 Released

by Maarten Goldstein Mar 06, 2005 8:07am CST tags: Half-Life
The final release of Natural Selection 3.0 is now available, offering a ton of changes over beta 5 (full changelog is here). You can find a mirror on FileShack.
"Alright, I've been out of NS for quite a while now, but now that this is final I think I'll get i..."15 Comments

Natural Selection 3.0 Q&A

by Maarten Goldstein Feb 25, 2005 7:14am CST tags: Half-Life
Also on Computer Games Magazine's website today is a Q&A with Charlie Cleveland of Unknown Worlds. Version 3.0 of the company's Natural Selection mod for Half-Life is coming soon, and Ward also talks about NS: Source and the difficulties of running Unknown Worlds.
"Cheaters = people who play better than me! J/K, actually, there is a bit of an issue with scri..."9 Comments

Steam Update

by Maarten Goldstein Jan 07, 2005 6:26am CST tags: Steam, Half-Life
A new update for Steam has been released, updating both the application itself, the Source engine in general and the Half-Life 1 Dedicated Server. As always you have to restart Steam to get the update.
"is it just me that feels that steam should be able to look for updates say once a day at random t..."15 Comments

Natural Selection 3.0 Beta 5 Released

by Maarten Goldstein Sep 04, 2004 10:35am CST tags: Half-Life, Beta
The guys at Unknown Worlds Entertainment have released the latest Natural Selection 3.0 beta, whicn you can grab from FileShack. The new release offers a ton of gameplay, cosmetic and other changes, adds two maps, and updates several older ones.
"I heard there was some thing that the NS team had against valve that meant they wouldn't do a sou..."26 Comments

Half-Life: Source Screenshot

by Maarten Goldstein Aug 27, 2004 2:42pm CST tags: Half-Life
Over at Halflife2.net you can find two screenshots which show you what the Source engine port of Half-Life 1 will look like. The game hasn't been totally overhauled like Counter-Strike: Source, but HL1 on the Source Engine will still benefit from shader graphics, the physics and other new engine features.
"Looks okay. Should be a great start for the inevitable mod teams that would have been looking to ..."47 Comments

WON Shutdown Soon

by Maarten Goldstein Jul 15, 2004 6:20pm CST tags: Valve, Steam, Half-Life
We received an email from Valve, announcing that WON authentication servers will be shut down soon. After this operation is done (should be by July 31), you can no longer use of the online features of non-Steam Valve products, such as Counter-Strike 1.5. People who haven't already done so are encouraged to download Steam so they can continue to play.
"Couldn't this be circumvented with some clever third party tool? Like a WON-emulator or something..."67 Comments

New Firearms Release

by Maarten Goldstein May 24, 2004 9:57am CST tags: Half-Life
Version 2.9 of the Firearms mod for Half-Life has been released, adding three new maps and two new weapons among other things. We have the Windows client and Linux server files mirrored on FileShack.
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Codename Gordon Released

by Maarten Goldstein May 18, 2004 10:39am CST tags: Valve, Steam, Half-Life
Valve sent along a note announcing that Codename Gordon is now available on Steam. Codename Gordon is a side scrolling game featuring levels inspired by Half-Life and Half-Life 2. You can find out more about the project at http://www.halflife2d.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="external.
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New Natural Selection

by Maarten Goldstein May 02, 2004 10:54am CST tags: Half-Life
A new Natural Selection patch has been released, updating Beta 4 of the Half-Life action strategy mod to Beta 4a. The new release comes with several combat changes and bug fixes.
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Natural Selection 3.0 Beta 3

by Maarten Goldstein Feb 10, 2004 8:13pm CST tags: Half-Life, Beta
A new Natural Selection 3.0 upgrade has been released, updating the Half-Life mod to Beta 3. The new release has bug fixes, balance changes and map updates (changelog here). There's a dedicated server patch as well.
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Natural Selection 3.0 Beta 2

by Maarten Goldstein Jan 30, 2004 8:23pm CST tags: Half-Life, Beta
As noted on the official website, Beta 2 of the Natural Selection v3.0 release is now available. On FileShack we have a client patch as well as a dedicated server patch.
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Natural Selection 3.0 Released

by Maarten Goldstein Jan 25, 2004 11:38am CST tags: Half-Life
The long awaited version 3.0 release of the Natural Selection mod for Half-Life is out, offering new maps, new upgrades, an improved look and many other new features. We have the 155mb client file mirrored on FileShack.
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Sven Co-op v3.0 Available

by Steve Gibson Dec 24, 2003 3:20pm CST tags: Steam, Half-Life
Sven Co-op for Half-Life has just hit the big v3.0 release and is available via Steam if you're into that or you can just grab the full install from FileShack. There is also a v2.1 to v3.0 update available.
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