Welcome to the second of Games Modding’s News Roundups. It was suggested in the previous roundup that these posts would be bi-weekly but the flow of material is such that a shorter period of time was allowed to pass before this update. There’s a lot of great modding happening out there and hopefully this post will be able to direct you to something you like.
- Darren

Crysis

• Codename: Dead Bird Community Update #4
  After a two month period of running quiet the team have posted Community Update #4 showing off some nice character, weapon and environment media including an ingame video.

Half-Life 2

• Podcast 17 Transmission C:17183
  In the 12th October episode of Podcast 17 there’s the usual discussion features along with a (partly later retracted) seventeen minute rant about Randy Pitchford’s distrust of Steam and more importantly an interview with David and Michael of the Half-Life 2 mod Orion.
• Zombie Panic: Source v2.0 Information
  Zombie Panic: Source have posted a news update with screenshots of a new map, a new character, three new melee weapon models, a sneak-peak at an objective mode map, some music and a changelist for v2.0.

Red Alert 3

• Condition Red media updates
  The RA2 into 3D total conversion Condition Red has been releasing a steady stream of media for a while now, including a rather nice Soviet Battle Lab model, a few ingame screenshots showing buildings and terrain and the textured Grizzly Tank unit.

Star Wars: Jedi Academy

• Moviebattles II RC3 Patch 4 Release
  The Moviebattles II mod team have released a new update with a number of balancing tweaks and bug fixes along with some more significent changes.

Unreal Tournament 3

• Renegade-X 0.36 Patch
  The Renegade-X team have released a 0.35 > 0.36 incremental patch. Annoyingly you have to go to their ModDB news post to find out that the update includes two new maps (a straight remake of Hourglass and a modified version by the name of Horologe) as well as fifty-seven fixes, tweaks and changes.
• HyperBlast Weapon Pack Preview
  DrakeBD of the Hypergames2K8 team is showing off two of the weapon models from the HyperBlast weapons pack and has also named another five of the twenty weapons it will include. The District 9 Arc Rifle is particularly nice.
• Mapping tutorial released by HappyConscript
  HappyConscript has posted a tutorial on basic mapping for Unreal Tournament 3, aimed squarely at beginners.

Feedback on GM’s series of news roundups would be greatly appreciated.
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