BoomTown has spit out an interview about the CS Source Engine port with Doug Lombardi, the interview vitally notes that some older CS maps will be redone for the CS source engine version along with all the weapons and characters, of course. Here's a slice of the preview:

“Actually we haven’t taken Half-Life as far as Counter-Strike. We’ve only converted the basic stuff and the majority of material from Half-Life 2 ending up in Half-Life will mostly be invisible. But from then on it’s actually up to players themselves if they want to alter the content of the game once it’s running on the new engine. If anybody feels like ‘upgrading’ Half-Life with Half-Life 2 content it’s cool with us.”

For the full interview, click here. As always, please, enjoy!

Over at GameSpy, they've got an article on about the details Valve Software decided to unveil reffering to the original Half-Life redone with the Source Engine. Here's a small sneak peek portion of the article:

"During an interview on the GameSpy LiveWire radio show this afternoon, Valve's Doug Lombardi elaborated on that process, mentioning that the original Half-Life had been ported to the new engine as part of its testing. As a result, a new version of the 1998 game, running in the Source engine, will be released around the same time as Half-Life 2."

This article also includes some info about other Half-Life game series aspects,(such as CS redone with the Source Engine), but mainly focuses on the original Half-Life redone with the source engine. It's a little short, but you can find the full article for viewing here. Enjoy! You're welcome!

After setting up databases and configurations locally, we've finally got a poll up titled: "How do you like the Half-Life 2 Portal?" Enjoy!

Over at HALF LIFE 2 DOT NET, a member named the_culture had confirmed the administrator, Munro, of a conversation he'd had with Erik Johnson reffering to the Half-Life 2 SDK, and that with E3 out of the way and other stuff, that Valve Software is preparing to release the SDK within a month! This is BIG use for all those mod and modders out there anticipating this release, of course! Just thought I'd let you all know(who's reading this), just a nice update! Sounds good!

Great news people, we've finally got our site's domain name registered! Please update any previous bookmarks, links, etc prior to this event! www.halflifeportal.com is ready to kick some Half-Life! w00t!

You can find it at fileplanet by clicking here. Man, these new Half-Life 2 E3 videos are really coming along all over the place! So anyways, this one is a specific E3 2004 IGN/GameSpy captured ATi and Vivendi Universal Games booth Half-Life 2 footage...in high-res video quicktime format, it's pretty big but it's worth the download I suppose. As always, you can also find this video link in our videos section of our site.

First of all the OFFICIAL Half-Life 2 website has launched; www.half-life2.com. Second, over at EuroGamer, they have an article on how Half-Life, Opposing Force, Blue-Shift, Team Fortress, and Counter-Strike is planned to be redone with the Source Engine, as many Half-Life fans were expecting, w00t! And the E3 2004 Half-Life 2 Teaser Trailer has been released, it's approximately 1 minute and 19 seconds, and includes some *new* and interesting footage of Half-Life 2, you can find it @ IGN's E3 2004 Half-Life 2 Teaser Video Section. I also added it to the video section of this site., and there's also a unique Half-Life 2 Source Engine / original Half-Life / Opposing Force / Blue-Shift / Team Fortress Source Engine remake / Counter-Strike Half-Life 2 Multiplayer component Source Engine Video found for download here. NOTE: requires BitTorrent to download, you can also find that link in our videos section of our site. And that's it for the bunch of updates, enjoy!

You can find it here. It's pretty good stuff...a bit big though, I added it to the videos section. And Half-Life 2 is nearing it's beta developement stage, Doug stated himself in confirmation that Half-Life 2 should be finished and ship by this summer, and theres definitely gonna be new footage @ E3 this year, w00t! Oh, and to top this all off there is a new Half-Life 2 preview that does expose a lot here by GameSpy. And I added a link to that preview in the previews section of this site, of course! Enjoy!

First, over at Half-Life's homepage, at the News archive section, Sierra confirms that not one but TWOos with all new brand new content footage of Half-Life 2 will be displayed at this year's E3 presentation. Last, for the WinHEC 2004 footage of Half-Life 2, presented by Gabe Newell talking about what the Radeon X800(the next-generation ATI graphics card, www.ati.com) is capable of for Half-Life 2...he also mentioned that the Radeon X800 performs up to 40% faster then the nVidia GeForce 6800(nVidia's next generation graphics card, www.nvidia.com)in Half-Life 2...sounds good! You can find the WinHEC 2004 Half-Life 2 video for download and viewing here. Enjoy! You're welcome...

I, as well was just browsing the E3 website, and have discovered that Gabe Newell, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Valve Software will be the speaker for this year's E3 Half-Life 2 presentation...oh and I found this information at E3's list of speakers webpage. You're welcome.