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Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was the best multiplayer mode ever, or maybe I just think that because it's the only one I wa...
It sucks when you love a multiplayer game that no one else ever wants to play. As a kid I loved the card game War, but no one would ever play it with me, probably because it's a genuinely terrible ...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Valve gets the original Half-Life 2 development team back together for a huge 20th anniversary update—and the game is...
November 16, 2024 is the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2, one of the biggest, most enduring videogames of all time. To celebrate the big birthday, Valve has released a 20th Anniversary Update for t...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Fixes Fixed player model selection in the options menu. Fixed slam not being able to be detonated if you were too close to a wall Fixed view bob with the SMG equipped. Fixed using the Gravity Gun to yo-yo grenades, sometimes causing the server to disconnect or crash. Fixed missing sound effects for the Gravity Gun. Fixed characters playing a missing animation when switching weapons while jumping and moving. Fix weapons being invisible when being given another w...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
A Closer Look at This Year's Mapping Contest Entries!
The contest has ended. The votes were all tallied and the winners were announced. The maps below were all finalists in the contest. You can download any or all of them from this link here. Viperbird has graciously provided both bsp and bsp.bz2 formats. We would like to again thank all of the map creators that put the time and effort into making us new content. Not a lot of 20 year old gam...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
The Results Are In! The People Have Spoken! Viperbird's 2023 Map Making Contest Officially Ends.
Viperbird's 2023 Map Making Contest Officially Ends. The community voted on this year's entries and the polls are now closed! This year we ran 3 polls. Each poll asked you to pick a contest entry you felt deserved either 1st, 2nd of 3rd place in the contest. A vote for 1st place earned the en...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Viperbird's 2023 Map Making Contest Is Coming To An End.
Did you know we are sponsoring another one of Viperbird's map making contests? Well you wouldn't if you were relying strictly on our website. We have done a poor job of keeping the community informed and for that, we are sorry. This year's contest has a $500 prize pool! Just like last year, 1st place wins 60% of the pool. 2nd place wins 30% of the pool, and 3rd place wins the remaining 10%. U...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
The Summer Fun Cup Is Live!
THE FUN HAS BEGUN! The Summer Fun Cup has officially started! The duel cup has 14 opponents participating and is scheduled to end mid-October. The team cup has 8 teams participating and is scheduled to end much earlier at the end of August. DUEL CUP More Tournament Details: https://www.gleagues.com/tournaments.php?id=3 ROUND 1 DUDE1477 vs AFER VIPERBIRD vs OMHI TENGA0218 vs ARTHASLANGLE TENGA0218 vs ARTHASLANGLE YNNEK vs METROIDFAN ULTIMATE vs NERVOUS JOHNWEAK vs SUBIEFL0W_ SE...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Summer Fun Cup Starts Next Week!
The Summer Fun Cup is set to start next week on the 28th of June. We've got a prize pool of $337 USD and 2 different ways of winning it! For more information please visit: https://www.gleagues.com/game/hl2dm/sfc23
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Summer Fun Cup Sign-Ups Are Now Open!
The HL2DM community has even more prize money up for grabs with the announcement of our Summer Fun Cup that's starting this month on the 28th! There are duel tournaments and a team deathmatch tournaments that both have 2 divisions, for a total of 4 tournaments! Division 1 of both tournaments is where the more experienced, naturally talented or just brave players will compete amongst each oth...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Youtuber 'Radiation Hazard' Gives Viperbird's Latest Contest A Shout Out!
If you noticed an increase in contest sign-ups, it's all due to getting a shout out at the start of a video called "Remastering Half-Life 2 With 102 MODS" by Radiation Hazard. It's been a day since it was shared to youtube and at the time of this posting has 26K VIEWS! Contest Sign-ups have be...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
GLeagues Prize Bonus For Viperbird's HL2DM Mapping Contest!
Contestants of Viperbird's previous mapping contest were offered a bonus for featuring the GLeagues logo anywhere in their map so long as they place in the top 5 of the contest. The logo didn't need to be prominent, it just needed to be somewhere in the submitted map to qualify. Almost everyone who entered into the contest featured our logo! We are very impressed, and grateful. We have dec...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Winners of Viperbird's HL2DM Mapping Contest Announced!
Viperbird put together this amazing video to announce the winners of the contest. Please watch it before scrolling down if you would prefer to find out with more grandeur. JUDGE SCORE RESULTS dm_katsura_rc1 with 46pts dm_ghettoquad_r2 with 24pts dm_uprising with 22pts dm_uplink_rc2 with 39pts dm_socal_institute_rc3 with 16pts dm_xenarium_prefinal with 15pts dm_moray_rc1 with 1...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Public Poll Results of Viperbird's HL2DM Mapping Contest Are In!
THE COMMUNITY POLL HAS ENDED! DM_SOCAL_INSTITUTE_RC3 takes the win with a 2 point lead over DM_KATSURA_RC1, which took 2nd place from DM_THE_ALCYS_CASTLE also with a 2 point lead. 38 users voted in the public poll. Congratulations to feedays, haymaker and AlcyToronto! Your maps will forever...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Dedicated HL2DM Player Uses Machine Learning to Create Bot
Roman Bityutskiy is in the process of developing a bot that plays the beloved first-person shooter Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Unlike what you could expect for a bot in an older game, this bot does not utilize the game engine, cache or memory. It was built using IgaoGuru's CS:GO Sequoia neural network for player detection & Alzaib's GTA 5 self-driving car neural network for pathfinding. It relies...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Viperbird's HL2DM Mapping Contest Comes To An End
If you haven't heard by now, we are sponsoring Viperbird's HL2DM Mapping Contest. Maybe you missed the progress update we shared a few months ago that highlighted the progress of the map entries. If so, then you probably didn't know the contest ended on November 30th and that the judges will be inspecting the entries until February 3rd 2023. CONTEST ENTRIES THESE MAPS ARE BEING JUDGED NOW ...
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Viperbird's HL2DM Mapping Contest Progress Update
We're 4 months into Viperbird's HL2DM Mapping Contest with only 2 months remaining before the judges start the review process and decide the winners. Viperbird has put together the video below to give you a couple of glimpses at what our contest participants have cooked up so far. Some amazing work not just from the creators of these stunning maps but also some top-notch editing skills by ...