UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Just a small collection of brief news pieces that have appeared over the past few days.

Gamer and writer Donna Antonijevic is writing a 2-piece article on female gaming. The first part has been posted on GotFrag and can be found here. The concluding part should be completed within the next week or 2, and if it equals this then it should prove a good read.

American news giant CNN is reporting that Half-Life 2 is now officially set for a release in the coming months, with VALVe employee Doug Lombardi claiming that they are "targeting this summer for the completion of Half-Life 2". With their track record, especially regarding HL and CS, you can safely predict what major game you'll be spending your cash on this summer, right? Read more here.

The "Federal Mercenary Clan" (US) has made a "Half-Life Tool Pack". The pack is some 39mb big and contains many HL and CS programs, tweakers, and launchers - especially in regards to graphics it seems. Their description?

"Half-Life Tool Pack contains over 50 of some of the best and most useful applications available for Half-Life (and its MODs). It includes everything from mapping/modeling tools to launchers - all in one convenient, easy to manage package."

For the full list of programs included, and for a download mirror, look no further.

The American based GamesNet IRC network is being discontinued. Instead, the network is merging with Pro Game Players Network to form a new network: GameSurge.

Over at the European Nations Championships website a few more teams have announced their squad lineups for the upcoming games, including France who are situated in group A with TeamUK and Germany who are in group B. Still no official announcement from Sweden as to who their lineup will consist of.

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We bring you more coverage of one of the UKs most popular leagues, the CSGN. Tonight it's division 2's turn and week 4's map is de_nuke.

VitaminX currently securing the top spot with 3 wins and no losses, with [void] a close second. Why not tune in on HLTV to see if VitaminX can hangon to their unrivaled winning streak, as always matches kickoff at 8pm.

Time: 20:00GMT 21:00CET Hertz Disposable Hereos HLTV: 217.64.127.130:27020 Scorebot: #csgn.server1 Hertz 22 DH 2	Time: 20:00GMT 21:00CET meatyballs VitaminX HLTV: 217.64.127.130:27021 Scorebot: #csgn.server2 meatyballs ?? VitaminX ??
Time: 20:00GMT 21:00CET remOte [void] HLTV: 217.64.127.5:27020 Scorebot: #csgn.server3 remOte 12 [void] 12	Time: Postponed [w]anted Sector7G HLTV: 217.64.127.5:27021 Scorebot: #csgn.server4 [w]anted P Sector7G P
Time: 21:00GMT 22:00CET proLific [f]orgotten HLTV: 217.64.127.130:27020 Scorebot: #csgn.server1 proLific 15 [f]orgotten 9

CSGN Division 1 catchup match between lastchance and Choke on de_nuke resceduled from Monday.

Time: 20:45GMT 21:45CET Lastchance Choke HLTV: 217.64.127.130:27020 Scorebot: #csgn lastchance 13 Choke 4

After having some time to enjoy their official pre-release (almost final) build of Counter Strike: Condition Zero, Planet Half-Life have, in the early hours of this morning (UK time), written a "Hands On" evaluation of the game. The article covers the history, hype, and build-up of the game before going into it's features and their opinions on it, making overall quite a solid read. The arguably most important aspect of the game, however, and the part that possible applies most all us CS fans out there, is covered in good detail, as the extract below demonstrates:



In this respect, CZ does look quite useful - check the article out here for more.