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We’ve put together a gigantic free download of maps for the popular HL2 Counterstrike Source mod Gun Game that we’re sure you’ll enjoy. At 194MB of raw maps, 676 killer files, get your mod game on! A tag in the .rar file identifies this as “SICFORUM CSS GunGame MapPack.”

Download now: CSS Gun Game GG Maps.rar!

Here is a listing of the files in this download; warning, it’s long, so I’m hiding it behind a cut. You’ll have to view the full post to see: (more…)

Joining previous bans of pc games Carmagedon, Grand Theft Auto and Postal which all garnered 18+ “adults only” ratings in Brazil, now first-person shooter Counterstrike and MMORPG Everquest join the ban list. Since 01/17/2008 a federal judge in Goiás has begun confiscating copies of the games, enforcing a ban that was legislated last fall. Other provinces are not seizing the games.

Kotaku also reports that Counterstrike “in the vision of specialists, teaches war techniques” and that Everquest “takes the player to total nonsense and heavy psychological conflicts, because the quests he receives may be good or bad.”

More amusingly, Everquest is not even officially sold in Brazil, and the offensive Counterstrike content where “Rio de Janeiro drug dealers kidnap and take to a slum three UN representative s” and “the police invade the place and are welcomed with bullets” refers to a user created map, CS_rio. Lol, it’s ok Brazil, we have politicians like that too in America; they’re called Hillary Clinton.

Phosphor, a beautifully rendered, 3d multi-player browser-based first-person shooter, is not only an impressive game, but it’s also 100% free. The game, developed by Rasterwerks, is in beta so it’s not without its problems. Apparently the mouse locks up in Firefox when playing, but despite the minor issues, the game is a stunning feat. It’s well worth your time, so check it out!

Note: this bad-boy takes plenty of load-time AND you’ll need to have Shockwave 10.1 to run it (which should auto-prompt if you don’t have it).

Fake Factory has released a high-res texture pack and music for half life 2 to spruce up the look and feel of the game. Now isn’t this an AWESOME screenshot?

They have a changelist:

- The Cinematic Modification adds Hires-Textures to all human characters, some non-human characters, nearly all items, walls and vehicles (and the vending mashine of course).

- It replaces the original HL2 music with a more classic score in the style of large Hollywood productions, that fits to the specific game-situations. Moreorchestral, more ambient, with unique themes for combines and Alyx.

-The additional Insane Hires Props are previous unreleased Hirestextures for nearly all props in the game, even little items like binders, computerparts, doorlocks and so on. The huge amount of details will give your HL2 virtually the look of a render-intro, but be warned: The amount of new textures will tax your hardware to the limit. Better don’t use this pack withoutdated DirectX8 cards. Don’t even think about it, unless you are using a 256+ MB card.

You can get it from halflife2.filefront.com/file/HalfLife_2_Fakefactory_Cinematic_Insane_Hires;54352 .

Atari and Saber Interactive are offering PC gamers a chance to beta test the multiplayer component of the time-bending FPS, TimeShift. Minimum system requirements include:

CPU: 2 GHz or equivalent
RAM: 512 MB
HDD free space: 6 GB
Video Card: 128 MB VRAM, pixel shader 1.1 support
Network: ADSL or better