http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires/news Subscribe to the Mod DB Empires Mod for Half-Life 2 news feed, and get the latest updates as they are posted. en-us Thu, 15 May 2008 22:01:06 -0500 Copyright 2008, DesuraNET Pty Ltd Articles 180 http://static.moddb.com/cutoff/images/logos/rss.png http://www.moddb.com/ 120 90 http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires/news/25409/empires-21-released Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:30:30 -0600 Empires 2.1 has been released and contains bug fixes and several new features. articles25409 http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/articles/1/26/25409/crop_120x90/emp_canyon0033.jpg http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires/news/25176/empires-21-update Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:45:24 -0600 Empires 2.1 is starting to come together and should be available shortly. The main focus of this patch is to fix crash issues that have been reported along with some other minor bugs. In addition to fixes, we're adding several new features. One of them is collapsible walls. When walls are destroyed or recycled, they will break into pieces and either crumble when destroyed by an engineer tool or explode with force when destroyed by an explosive projectile. articles25176 http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/articles/1/26/25176/crop_120x90/be_walls_01.jpg http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires/news/24648/empires-20-client-released Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:21:06 -0600 The Empires 2.0 Client Installer has been released and is now available for download. articles24648 http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/articles/1/25/24648/crop_120x90/empduststorm0178ci1.jpg http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires/news/24624/empires-20-server-released Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:25:22 -0600 The Empires 2.0 dedicated server installer has been released. articles24624 http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/articles/1/25/24624/crop_120x90/empcyclopean0012iz8.jpg http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires/news/24511/empires-mod-20-interview Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:34:26 -0600 Halflife.nu has conducted an interview with the leader of Empires. There are three exclusive shots of aircraft which are coming after Empires 2.0's release (Nov 30). articles24511 http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/articles/1/25/24511/crop_120x90/empfighter9tl8.jpg http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires/news/24404/empires-20-nov-30 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:58:39 -0600 Empires 2.0, the award winning FPS/RTS mod for Half-Life 2 (ModDB MOTY Multi-Genre award), will be released this Nov 30. articles24404 http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/articles/1/25/24404/crop_120x90/emp_isle0005-1.jpg http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires/news/23298/empires-beta-2-coming-soon Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:57:15 -0500 The next public release of Empires, Beta 2 or 2.0 if you desire, will soon be available to you. After roughly twenty internal releases to our play testers, we've developed Empires into a version that is faster, better looking, bug free, and very optimized compared to the last public version (1.07). articles23298 http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/articles/1/24/23298/crop_120x90/70266.jpg http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires/news/20975/more-weapon-improvements Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:33:55 -0500 Here are two more videos showing off our new weapons which will be included in our next release. This time we're showcasing the Northern Faction shotgun pistol which holds two shells at a time and packs a powerful punch. The second weapon is the Northern Faction scout rifle which is now bolt operated. articles20975 http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/articles/1/21/20975/crop_120x90/59422.jpg http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires/news/20935/overdue-update Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:46:35 -0500 It's been much too long since our last update, and much has happened since then. Our next release will feature all new weapon models and animations, and all rifle weapons will have iron sights for their secondary fire mode. All SMGs will retain their melee attack. All of the Northern Faction models articles20935 http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/articles/1/21/20935/crop_120x90/59208.jpg http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires/news/19331/1073-server-patch-and-108-update Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:39:10 -0600 A new server side only patch has been released for Empires, version 1.073, which fixes a recently discovered exploit and one other bug. All of our time has been focused on completing 1.08 so it was quite a big deal that we dropped all work and went back to fix a problem that was just discovered yesterday articles19331 http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/articles/1/20/19331/crop_120x90/51767.jpg