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Valve Job Openings

by Maarten Goldstein Jan 28, 2002 7:58am CST tags: Valve, Half-Life
Want to work at Valve? There are four job openings. Thanks The Warthog.
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Half-Life Cheating Q&A

 by Maarten Goldstein Jan 24, 2002 4:48pm CST tags: Valve, Steam, Half-Life
As you might know, Valve has recently started testing new builds of Half-Life and Counter-Strike. Besides testing their Steam system, they are also implementing some new anti-cheat measures. Erik Johnson was kind enough to answer a few questions about Valve's effort to stop cheating. You can check out the Q&A right here.

- First of all, why did it take Valve so long to counter rampant cheating in its games?

[Erik Johnson] Valve has actually been working on cheating for some time, like keeping our network protocol secure and issuing unique WonIDs to every person playing online. We've only recently begun to talk about it in a public forum. ...

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Natural Selection Interview

by Maarten Goldstein Jan 19, 2002 10:07am CST tags: Half-Life, Interview
HomeLAN's Saturday morning interview is with Charles Cleveland of the Natural Selection mod for Half-Life. Natural Selection is a mix between an FPS and a RTS, and features a sci-fi setting. JCal asks about the idea behind the mod, the weapons for both sides, levels and settings, what are the important gameplay elements, what it was like to go to the Half-Life mod expo, the current status of the mod and a few other things.
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Opera Update

by Maarten Goldstein Jan 17, 2002 3:00pm CST tags: Half-Life
It's been quiet around the Opera mod for Half-Life for a while but there's a lenghty update on the official site. Basically they are working on all kinds new things and the project isn't dead. A few new screenshots are included as well.
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DoD 2 Previews

by Maarten Goldstein Jan 15, 2002 7:56am CST tags: Half-Life
HomeLAN Fed and Gaming Groove have both posted their own previews of the upcoming Day of Defeat 2.0 mod for Half-Life. Both come with a bunch of new screenshots and the list of changes. If you missed our preview it can be found here.
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Day of Defeat 2 Preview

 by Maarten Goldstein Jan 10, 2002 6:12am CST tags: Half-Life
If you're a regular Half-Life player you might just be aware of the Day of Defeat mod. With its World War 2 setting it was popular long before the likes of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. For the past few months the team has been slaving away at version 2.0 of their team mod. I recently got the opportunity to play the new version and have written up a preview which will tell you about the new features that you can expect. Screenshots and movies of the new levels are included, as well as a brief Q&A with one of the programmers.

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Day of Defeat & Valve

by Maarten Goldstein Jan 05, 2002 10:21am CST tags: Valve, Half-Life
The Day of Defeat site has been updated with the news that the next version of this popular Half-Life WW2 mod will include a map by Valve level designer Iikka Keränen. Several screenshots of the map are up at the site.
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HL Red Justice Maps

by Maarten Goldstein Jan 03, 2002 8:07am CST tags: Half-Life
Over at Games-Fusion are four screenshots from maps that are going to be included with the Beta 2.5 release of the Half-Life Red Justice mod.
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HL PolyFighter Q&A

by Maarten Goldstein Jan 02, 2002 8:02am CST tags: Half-Life
There's a Polyfighter Q&A on GameHelper, where the team behind this Half-Life mod answer some questions about it. Though based on the Half-Life engine this is actually an aerial combat game like Terminal Velocity.
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New HL Weapons Factory

by Maarten Goldstein Dec 24, 2001 8:44am CST tags: Half-Life
Saw on Blues that a new version of the Half-Life version of the Weapons Factory mod has been released. They call it the "most advanced version of HLWF yet", with support for fog rendering, trains, tanks and monsters, as well as a menu system for team and class selection and you can play single- as well as multiplayer modes.
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Mapping for DoD

by Maarten Goldstein Dec 16, 2001 12:02pm CST tags: Half-Life
The official Day of Defeat site has posted a FGD file, for those interested in creating a map for the upcoming version 2.0 of this Half-Life WW2 mod. This new version should be out in a few weeks so you have a while to submit a map.
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Punkbuster Interview

by Steve Gibson Dec 10, 2001 12:33pm CST tags: Valve, Half-Life, Interview
Newsgeek has an interview with the developer of Punkbuster (Little old, but we missed it) talking about things you would expect. Havent heard much about PB since the little flame-out they had with Valve. Most things point to PB having incorporated and deciding to try and charge developers for their service.
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Day of Defeat 2 Soon

by Maarten Goldstein Dec 09, 2001 8:39am CST tags: Half-Life
Version 2.0 of the Half-Life teamplay mod Day of Defeat is out soon, and to celebrate the team has released a lot of new screenshots. Version 2 will come with all kinds of new models, skins and maps. Check the website for more information, here are the shots


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HL Mod Expo Report

by Maarten Goldstein Dec 06, 2001 7:29am CST tags: Valve, Half-Life
Gamehelper has put together a nice little feature about the recent Half-Life mod expo, which showcased several promising mods for Valve's blockbuster FPS. There's a photo gallery, fact sheets on the mods on display there and a writeup about the event.
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HL TV Network

by Maarten Goldstein Dec 06, 2001 5:58am CST tags: CPL, Valve, Half-Life
The CPL site has an announcement from Speakeasy and Valve announcing that they have a PC Game Broadcast Network up and running to support 80,000 simultaneous viewers of a Half-Life game. Using the Half-Life TV server software, and Speakeasy's bandwidth everyone should be able to spectate during the games at the CPL World Championship event.
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Doug Lombardi Interview

by Maarten Goldstein Dec 05, 2001 8:43am CST tags: CPL, Valve, Gearbox, Half-Life, Doug Lombardi, Interview
CPL's World Championship tournament is kicking off real soon, and AVault has done a pre-event inteview with Valve's Doug Lombardi, about Valve's involvement with competitive gaming, if Valve or partners like Gearbox will be showing off anything at the event, mod support, and a few other related things.
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Firearms Interview

by Maarten Goldstein Nov 17, 2001 9:33am CST tags: Half-Life, Interview
HomeLAN Fed has an interview up with Ben Irwin of the Firearms mod. Firearms is a Half-Life multiplayer mod, and JCal asks about the history of the mod, when the next version will be out, plans for porting Firearms to other games and more.
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HL Mod Expo Announced (Again)

by Maarten Goldstein Nov 14, 2001 7:43pm CST tags: Half-Life, Sony
Sierra sent along a press release announcing the new date for the Half-Life Mod Expo. The third Mod Expo will be held Thursday, November 29th, from 7PM till 8:30PM PST. You must be 17 or older, or have a parent / guardian with you. The address for the event is

METREON-A Sony Entertainment Center
Second Level, SoMa Room
101 4th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

The mods displayed will be Existence, Day of Defeat, Spirit of Half-Life, PolyFighter and Natural Selection.
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Half-Life SDK v2.2

by Steve Gibson Nov 08, 2001 7:08pm CST tags: Valve, Half-Life
Valve Software has released the v2.2 SDK for Half-Life that includes voice comm, spectator code, and deathmatch classic code. You can download it here.
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Day of Defeat Movie

by Maarten Goldstein Nov 05, 2001 8:32am CST tags: Half-Life
Missed this over the weekend, but a preview movie from the upcoming Beta 2 of the Day of Defeat mod for Half-Life has been released. There's a high and a low res version of the trailer, both run for about 2 minutes.
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