http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOrH5tfWorg

• Independent short film – 2 years in the making – Endless hours of post
• 1 Canon HV20
• 7 Friends
• $1,200 budget for the full short film.

This film is not HL,HL2 or Opposing Forces. It’s a short fan film that takes place in the Half-Life world. Also, as a completely independent film, we wanted to have a creative voice in the movie and make it a movie that we would enjoy shooting. We took artistic freedoms and liberties, unfortunately most of those decisions were determined by our limited resources.

Check out:  BeyondBlackMesa.com

AG2 v1.0 Released

Today is a great day as AG2 is officially available. You can download the full installer and/or zip file in the download.
AG2 includes some very advanced features. It matches not only the players who wish to play a fast paced game but also all the players who do enjoy the Regular version from VALVe.

This mod does include both regular and a fast paced mode for the sake of everyone’s pleasure.  AG2 is bug free which also means that the bugs that are in the original regular HL2DM from VALVe have all been fixed.  As you all know, AG2 also brings a lot of advanced features for managing matches as well as servers and also includes many game mods.
Well, we count on you

Hello Black Mesa fans!

We come to you once again with an update. It’s now the end of 2009, and we know many of you have literally counted the days down until this fateful month. We are floored by the level of support you have given us and are very excited we’re so close to reaching our goal.

Unfortunately, to our great disappointment, Black Mesa will not make a 2009 release.

Cynics may now rejoice, bets may be collected, and I think a mod team member has to eat his shoe, but we hope our loyal fans will forgive us and realize that the delay will translate into a better final product that’s (hopefully) more easily available to everyone.

Once again we apologize for what has to be very disappointing news. We placed a 2009 deadline on ourselves to motivate us and bring this 6 year project to a close. And while we didn’t quite make it, we have come very close, and you can expect a complete, polished game to hit your hard drives in the near future. We’ll be sure and update if anything changes. Until then, hang tight, it’s coming!

We will be going old school with the Deathmatch in Orion. There will be no player classes and everyone starts with a default weapon (can be modified by server hosts, however its the pistol). Everyone has a jetpack by default and weapons are scattered around the map in a retro-deathmatch style.

The Closed Beta starts Friday, December 4th, 2009 and is available to all Fileplanet members.

Videos & Audio – Orion Mod for Half-Life 2 – Mod DB

Features

Dynamic Combat:

Iron sights, reflex scopes, bullet penetration, bullet ricochet, melee attacks, weapon firemodes and more!

Aerial Combat:

Take the combat to the skies with the Assault player class. Equipped with Jetpacks, traverse the levels from a new perspective and rein fire from above.

Class-based Gameplay:

Featuring 3 classes per team on its first public release;

• Assault
• Support
• Sniper

Each class features a different weapon load out and different areas of performance. Find the one that fits you best and unload on your enemies!

Weapon and Medical Supply caches

Located all over the battlefield, re-arm and resupply your health with these caches.

Interactive HUD (Heads-Up-Display)

Teammate awareness, Objective markers, audio-based information, and weapon diagnostics all located on the screen at the right time!

Breathtaking environments.

Duke it out on some of Source’s most elaborate and detailed environments. Ranging from grass covered valleys or underground in a complex cave system. All using custom created content and models! 7 maps will be featured in the first public release.

• Quagmire
• Catchment
• Geode
• Bare
• Shadow
• Depth
• Highrise

New Weaponry

Featuring 17 brand new weapons on its first release, with around double the amount to come through future Content Updates!

Interactive Game-Modes

The first to be featured in ORION will be a version of Capture The Flag. There are 6 planned game modes already, including one completely original. Others to be released via Content Updates (shortly after the first public release) include: deathmatch, team deathmatch, search and destroy, cooperative, and our unique game mode, Vital.

Gabe spoke the value of a community before introducing Joe. Said Gabe, of Joe: “Joe understands more about the dynamic of the internet than 95% of the vice presidents.”

Joe then bravely spoke a bit about how it all came about and fielded a few questions. We are thrilled to report that Joe’s a top bloke. He launched this campaign not to draw attention to himself but to simply get Gabe in front of his mod. That’s all. The explosion of interest in his story has him overwhelmed, but not to the point where he lost focus of his mission.

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Steam Client

• Added contact email account verification by request and on new account creation
• Improved account security with verified contact email to prevent phishing
• Added mod support for Killing Floor
• Fixed memory leak
• Added ‘officers-only chat’ mode to group chats

Beginning at 6:00 pm Pacific time Thursday August 6th, we will be performing software maintenance on some Steam servers. We expect the resulting downtime to last three hours at most, putting the end of the window at 9:00 pm Pacific time.

Some Steam services will be offline during this time. Affected services will include the Steam Community, in-game matchmaking or lobbies, downloading games from Steam content servers, and making purchases from the Steam store. Games that do not rely on Steam matchmaking services should remain playable.

News updates and any further information will be posted in this space.

The anticipated NEOTOKYO mod has been released today and the website has been getting a decent hammering!  NEOTOKYO° is a first person shooter that aims to provide a visceral & realistic combat experience in a rich futuristic setting.

Background Story and World:

NEOTOKYO° takes place in and around a fictionalized Tokyo approximately 30 years in the future. Mankind has begun to fuse with technology. Government and corporate corruption have transformed Tokyo into a deadly dystopian nightmare. After a near-successful military coup by ranking members of Jinrai, the National Security Force (NSF) is formed – answering directly to the Prime Minister, it’s mission is to investigate and eliminate all threats to Japan, both abroad and at home. The initial core of the NSF is made from an exodus from within the intelligence branch of the military. With this betrayal begins the war in the shadows between the NSF and Jinrai.

Welcome to NEOTOKYO

!!!! TORRENT IS UP…GO GO GO!!!! ——> TORRENT LIIIIIIIINK HERE
CLIENT LINKS coming soon.

Welcome to NEOTOKYO’s release.. the website is getting hammered hehe… so we’re just putting up this page for now. I guess you guys took us literally when we said spam the refresh button on July 3rd.
In the meantime you can hammer ModDB instead if you want to see some NT stuffz

Changes/Fixes

• Fixed Delayed Gravity Gun fire
• Fixed Crossbow first person effects
• Fixed Issue with Impulse 101 not giving crossbow Ammo
• Changed Combine movement sounds to rebel movement sounds,cause In competitions the loud noises would give away your position and cause a huge disadvantage
• Improved Movement to act more like regular hl2dm
• Windows dedicated server files Available for download,Also thanks to [KBH]Keeper for the Linux version

Visit the web site to download

This one is probably my favourite half Life map:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-kyqwyzLms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoFSLfWafH0