The Sven Co-op Contest Map Pack is finally here! It contains 10 unique and high-quality maps for SC4.07 -- all but one of those entered into the contest.


See the Sven Co-op site for full details and download links.

On March 11th, Gabe Newell took the stage at The Game Developers Choice Awards to accept his Pioneer Award which "celebrates those individuals who developed a breakthrough technology, game concept or gameplay design at a crucial juncture in video game history." In the final part of his speech, Gabe Newell begins to talking about the latest ARG with Portal and the faithful legion of fans...


What cannot be seen though is the error given by the BSOD, courtesy of the always friendly GLaDOS. The error code given by GLaDOS was a code that has now been deciphered. It looks like fans anxiously awaiting Portal 2 may have to wait until E3. If you want to see what the BSOD said, head on over to Kotaku to see the message.

According to Gamespy.com Valve and Epic have done up a Steamworks deal!



So click here for the full scoop. Special thanks to HLFallout member neva- for the heads up!

HLFallout.net has had the honor of interviewing the voice actor of Dr. Kleiner; Hal Robins.

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You can view the full interview here:

In parallel with the wonderful interview of the wonderful Hal Robins, HLFallout is holding a (wonderful) contest! Isn't it wonderful?

The picture Hal kindly sent us to use for this interview is truly majestic!



And since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we ask you to use whatever means at your disposal, be it fingerpainting, Photoshop, MSpaint, Garry's mod, etc. or a combination thereof to make a copy of that picture.


Only few rules apply:

• The contest is open to all members (excluding us staffies of course), if you're not a member yet, feel free to register and introduce yourself here.
• Thou shalt post your submission in this very thread before Tuesday, March 16th at 24:00 o'clock UTC/GMT.
• Thou shalt not use the original image or even parts of it.
• Thou doth not need make a carbon copy of the original picture, creativity is allowed and well regarded, as long as thou stayeth on topic.

Now, here are a few examples on what to do, and what not to do:

You're doing it wrong!


Acceptable, at least you tried.


Now here's something we wouldn't ashamed of showing Hal himself!

The happy winner, chosen by Staff behind closed doors, in a seemingly democratic but ultimately totalitarian way, will receive any game(s) of his choosing available on Steam up to a total value of 50 US Dollars.

All other entrants will be awarded a medal, made out of pixels, that they can print out and wear proudly on their chest.(paper, printer, ink and cutting device not included)