Archives for January 2006

• Please note that these are publication date on this site, NOT the actual release date of the maps and mods

About I don’t know anything about this mod at the moment. As soon as I play it I will post some information and screenshots. Enjoy From the ReadMe This mod requires Half-Life 1.1.1.0. It is not compatible with Steam! It contains 7 playable maps and 3 cutscene-only maps. There is no actual story. The first [...]

Imagine you woke up one morning with an itch in your lower back. This itch just got worse no matter how much you scratched it. Then over the coming weeks you noticed a protrusion where your coccyx is. This protrusion got longer and longer.

A change is as good as a rest We have a saying in English: “A change is as good as a rest”. If the meaning isn’t clear to you let me explain. If you change something about your life it will have the same benefit as taking a rest. So instead of going on holiday [...]

I learnt today that a person I occasionally work with is colour blind. As strange as it may seem I have never met or known anyone colour blind before. He has trouble distinguishing between greens and yellows. Not bright yellow or dark green but the lighter shades.

About Kyle recently sent me this file and I had never heard of it. Eager to play I fired up Half-Life and was pleseantly suprised. This map has lots of bad points but the good points easily outweigh the bad. There’s no story but the cut scenes are quite funny. The map was previously mentioned [...]

Introduction I’m a little older than the average gamer, not the oldest I know but still at an age where my contemporaries consider my hobby as childish. A typical Monday morning conversation could be:

About Poseidon is a submerged deep sea laboratory sponsored by CryoTech Incorporated, a large firm dealing mainly with cryotechnology (would you believe that they started out by selling refrigerators?). It’s located just east of Denmark, about 110 km of the coast of Aalborg, a major Danish city. The rig is a cooperation between the Danish [...]

Author’s Note “The Bad Guys have taken over a building in a Generic American City, and they’ve kidnapped some Innocent Scientists and forced them to genetically engineer Evil Mutated Monsters as part of a fiendish plan for World Domination. But the creations have turned on their creators and escaped, and are running amok inside the [...]

About This mappack consists of three small maps: Lambda Bowling, Puchi Puchi and Bomber Free Man. Clearly there is no story involved and I don’t think the maps link to each other. Just a bit of fun with the editor, it seems! Enjoy. Images courtesy of City17.ru Basic Details Title: Japanese Episodes File Name: hl1-sp-japanese-episodes.7z [...]

About X.E.T. Xen Exploration Team The mod XET is singleplayer and takes you on the roll of XET member Bill Freeman. XET is supposed to be the survey team mentioned late in the game and in parts of Blue-Shift. You will visit new parts of Black Mesa and old parts of it; you will, of [...]

About Author’s Note: “This is my 1st “real” map and i have spent much time trying new things on it. Hope you like it It ends when you get the message “you have found a way out”” Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

About You start in a lab with a few scientists milling around talking. A barney waits for you by a lift shaft with no lift. Your mission: To get to the end of the corridors. Along the way you will encounter a few nasties. The would have been OK if it was part of someting [...]

About This mod has ten levels and includes the following weapons: A combat knife Desert Eagle Franzi Shotgun Short 9mm Mp5 Grenades There are new sounds, music and textures.. One claimed special effect is, that you can see the snow falling in some levels. There are also tanks and other effects. Basic Details Title: Soldier [...]

About Author’s Note: “The map is a fictional scene where Gordon Freemen is thrust into a town where about half of the Combine soldiers are rebelling. To tell the truth the story isnt very important i just like showing off the AI since I don’t think valve did it enough. Both sides are hostile to [...]