Some interesting news for you 56ker's out there, hope is around the corner. Read On -

Sault Ste. Marie, known largely as a northern Ontario steel town, is set to become the first municipality in Canada to offer residential high-speed Internet service through the power grid.

More info here.

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I found a bit of interesting News at Gamespot.

Early today, reports came in from Germany revealing that police had raided the offices of Bavarian-based developer Crytek. Apparently, a former employee told police that the studio was using unlicensed software on their upcoming PC shooter Far Cry. Some of the wilder reports indicated that a special antipiracy squad searched Crytek offices and seized numerous pirated copies of Maya an... [ There's more ]

Trauma Studios is yet another example that if you make a good mod, with great support and work hard you can turn your hobby into a dream job. Trauma Studios built Desert Combat which is a modification for Battlefield 1942 and they just signed an agreement to work together on a "previously announced" DICE project. The cost allotment for this venture..... $550,000.

Patrick Söderlund, CEO, Digital Illusions,... [ There's more ]

Novalogic has finally released a set of editing tools for Black Hawk Down. You can now create custom content for the game using the supplied tools:

RedrumMDK took some time last night to update the mapping errors section for SOF2. We try to provide you with a comprehensive list of possible errors that might pop up while creating your custom SOF2 content like maps. This way, if you have a problem, you might be able to solve it with a few clicks in the site here.

Thanks Red!

Latest word on HalfLife 2 is that the earliest we will be seeing anything is going to be this summer. I guess the Valve psychic that guessed at April was a bit off that day.CNNMoney reports,

Doug Lombardi, Valve's director of marketing, told me the company "is currently targeting this summer for the completion of Hal... [ There's more ]

The source code for Enemy Territory is now available for download from FilePlanet so you can start your modding. Enemy Territory is a free multiplayer expansion for Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Gamespy summerizes it as:

"Enemy Territory challenges gamers to the ultimate test of teamwork and strategy. Each of the five characte... [ There's more ]

TeamXbox.com comes in second with the Xbox 2 specs. Here are some highlights:

" the whole system can process six threads simultaneously "
" a multiprocessor-enabled, 64-bit platform "
" The graphic chip will contain not only a graphics rendering core but up embedded... [ There's more ]

In order to make sure our members here at MODSonline.com have the best possible download connection, we are now requiring that you register with us in order to download any files. We have been noticing an extremely large amount of download activity coming from various places that we couldn't account for and we know that will only drain the bandwidth from our members.

Along with changes in our downloads section, you may have notice our new site design as well as a few changes to