The official Natural Selection website now has a new server patch for this popular Half-Life mod, updating it to 1.04. They promise the next update, 1.1, will feature new content and such.

The Natural Selection website now has word of a 1.03 server patch, once again fixing many server issues found in this Half-Life mod.

A new server patch for the Half-Life mod Natural Selection has been released, fixing more bugs. The patch is mirrored on FileShack.

HomeLAN Fed's Saturday morning mod interview is with Charlie Cleveland, team leader on the Natural Selection mod for Half-Life. JCal asks Charlie what surprised him during development of the mod, any features that didn't make it, reaction to the mod, patch plans and more.

B-F Total Gaming Network has a Q&A with Valve's Erik Johnson, asking him about the Beta 2 of Steam, and the upcoming updates to Team Fortress Classic and Counter-Strike among other things.

The VERC Collective website has been updated with six new articles about game and website code (controlling turrets through cameras, basing one monster class off another, etc). The site now also offers a way of submitting your own content and having a blog area.

Natural Selection for Half-Life was released just a few days ago and got some really rave reviews, make sure and check it out. For those of you running servers, there is a new v1.01 patch available.

A new Half-Life mod release today, The Battle Grounds is now out. The Battle Grounds is a class-based multiplayer mod set during the Revolutionary War. FileShack has a mirror.

A new Half-Life mod has been released, called Natural Selection. This mod mixes action and strategy, and you play as either marines or aliens. Lots of people have been looking forward to this it seems. Click here for the FileShack mirror.

Some Half-Life mod news this morning. A map development kit for the Gladiator mod is now available, and the first release of The Specialists is out.

Valve sent along word that they are looking for a senior engineer. Here's what they need: "We're looking for a senior software engineer with a background in e-commerce and database engineering. In general we're always interested in talking with lead engineers who've actually shipped a good product, but in this particular case we're especially interested in talking to people with experience in the large scale deployment of commerce and database systems. If you're interested, contact me at gaben@valvesoftware.com."

The Natural Selection website, has been updated with word that the Half-Life mod is slated for release at the end of this month. They have also posted a trailer which you can grab from Fileshack.

The guys at CS Nation let us know they have an updated Counter-Strike 1.6 information page, listing all the additions and changes in the latest version of the popular Half-Life mod.

Valve Software has just sent out word of a major upgrade to their Steam service is on the way. Generally when this stuff comes out from them you can expect a release within the next few weeks. Here's the stuff:

Steam Beta 2.0 Coming Soon
 
Updates for Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, as well as new casual games and performance optimizations will be introduced in Steam beta 2.0, which is expected to go live early next month. Steam, Valve's broadband business platform for content delivery and management, was announced at the 2002 Game Developer's Conference in San Jose, CA. Since the launch of beta 1, over 125,000 gamers have tried Steam. Many of the game-specific features released in Steam beta 2.0 will be made available to the non-Steam community at the conclusion of this beta.
 
Key Features:
 -- V-GUI 2 plus an integrated set of communications tools that provide built-in support for a variety of services, such as instant messaging, configuration, and server browsing. 
-- Counter-Strike: Introduction of Riot Shield, FAMAS, and Galil.  
-- Team Fortress Classic: Introduction of the engineer's teleportation pad, new map from Valve (Ravelin), plus various fixes and tweaks.
 -- Casual Steam games: Chess, Checkers, and Go.
 -- Anti-cheat support for all Valve multiplayer games.
 -- Improved Steam performance.

A new version of the Half-Life mod FireArms has been released, sporting a boatload of changes. You can grab the full version or the 2.6 to 2.65 upgrade from FileShack.

The final version of Sven Co-Op 2.0 has been released, which has all kinds of new maps and features as listed here. Sven's Co-op mod allows you to play through Half-Life in co-op mode.

Version 1.7 of the Front Line Force mod for Half-Life has been released. It has two new maps, better weapon balancing and more. There's a 9.4 upgrade from the previous version of a 113mb full download.

Just got an email announcing that Day of Defeat 3.0 will actually be released today. The client release should be at 5PM Central.

There's a Day of Defeat 3.0 Q&A on HomeLAN Fed, John Morello of the Day of Defeat team about the new version of this popular WW2 mod for Half-Life. JCal asks about the official partnership with Valve, goals for version 3.0, the new game type, new weapons and of course more.

Just got the PR from the folks at Valve Software on this one. It looks like the Day of Defeat mod team has decided to get a bit more buddy buddy with Valve.

DoD 3.0 Coming Next Week

Valve and the Day of Defeat team today announced an official partnership for continued development of the World War II-based Half-Life MOD. In addition, Day of Defeat 3.0 is due to launch next week, and will mark the introduction of new missions and gameplay types, a new player class, and more. First shown at the Third Annual Half-Life MOD Expo in San Francisco late last year, Day of Defeat is a team-based action game based upon the great battles, equipment, and scenarios of WWII. For more information, visit www.dayofdefeatmod.com.