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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

Ben Joffe has developed the Canvascape “3D Walker”, which is the most simple FPS Engine in existence to date. 3D Walker utilizes the Canvas tag found in many internet browsers (ie: Firefox 1.5, Safari and Opera). Although the graphics are rather undeveloped, there’s no deption about the Canvascape “3D Walker”; all there is to do is walk around until you’ve become so bored that your over-a-decade-old GameBoy looks appealing.

I bought Half Life 2 the other day, and looked forward to blasting through the Lost Coast HDR demo, but I enountered some problems. See, there’s a known issue with certain video cards, namely the NVIDIA Geforce GO series (6200go, 6400go, and 6800go) where the game bluescreens when you try to load it. I tried all the solutions above and was able to run it with the -window flag, but to me that’s not good enough. You shouldn’t have to choose between inferior gameplay and the blue screen of death. So, to anyone with a new Sony Vaio, Half Life 2 or any other Steam/Source Engine game might not be for you.

That’s right, Alien Arena is this sites pick for the Free Game of the Week. Why, you ask? Because it’s a 100% free, Multiplayer First-Person-Shooter for the PC that has beautiful graphics powered by the open-source Quake 3 engine. This game has been around for a while, but it has finally gotten a well-needed refurb. The new version, featuring 25 levels, 5 mutators, 9 playable characters, 8 weapons, 3 alternate fire modes, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Assault, and Death Ball, is well worth the 151 MB download.

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