City 17: Aftermath Issue #017

I know! It's amazing! Our wonderful team has managed to squeeze out a comic from our old CPU. Please enjoy City 17: Aftermath Issue: #017!

Happy Reading!

Weekly Update #003

Hi everyone, i'm back for the Weekly Update Number 003!
Unfortunately I didn't get to go to Japan last week but I have quite a large amount of news for you:

STEAM News:
For STEAM news, there are now some cool new games availabe for Buy and Download such as Project: Snowblind and Arx Fatalis and there are also some Eidos games as well like Tomb Raider Legend (A personal favourite) and Rogue Trooper ready for Buy and Download via STEAM.

Half Life News:
Unfortunately, Half Life 2 has been very quiet so no official news to report.

City 7 Breen News:
Now, the big crunch, as for City 7 Breen news, the Graphics update i've been mentioning in my previous updates is drawing closer to arrival. Once we get that up and running you can zoom right in to each individual picutre and still maintain its great clarity as they will be a stunning original resolution of at least 1024x768 pixel quality.

Episode 2's first issue is looking to come out at around the beginning of next year i.e. January 2008 - there will be some exciting features for that! You may think to yourselves that that is really far away from now, but considering all the delays we've had with the Software, the Internet and all, Episode 1 is nowhere near finished. The fact that we're already planning for Episode 2 now is for me; quite astonishing.
I can confirm some details about Episode 2 however even now, David, Alainne and Breen will definately appear in Episode 2 and unfortunately that's all the news I can give you now, if I told you anymore, you wouldn't enjoy Episode 2's spontaneous storyline.

Well, that's all the news for this week, come back next week for the next update on Half Life, City 7 Breen and STEAM.

Weekly Update #002

Hi readers!
Welcome to weekly update #002!
HALF LIFE 2 NEWS:
The graphics update draws closer hopefully we'll get it at the end of this month but other than that, HALF LIFE and its sequels have been very quiet.
CITY 7 BREEN NEWS:
As for the site in general, like I said we should get a graphics update by the end of the month so the comics will be up and running as soon as we can get them done.

I personally will be going off to Japan next week so there won't be any weekly updates i'm afraid!

Yours sincerely,
Your ADMIN

The One Thing I Hate The Most...

Yesterday, I was pretty positive in announcing this week's comics. Now, i'm really mad and frustrated! - Would you believe that both mine and Benjy's GMOD isn't functioning? - Would you credit it? - I know the problem with mine - My Graphics. It has always been and now it seems to have completely given up on me, the tremendous lag times that appear when importing and posing a single character are unbelievable! After the posing is done, most of the time GMOD crashes on me and all my data is erased.

(Garry, this isn't your fault, it's just my PC!)

My PC is scraping its Graphics capability with a NVIDIA FX5200, it amazes me sometimes how can even load up GMOD.

- Not to worry folks! I am expecting a major Graphics upgrade within 1-2 months. This is a plus for you readers as well, my graphics will have a 110% visual increase, so all comics will feature beautiful effects like HDR (For those of you who know a little about CPU graphics).

As for this moment and until I receive this new graphic update, the comics are on hold. - I know I say it often and I hate it myself! MY CPU just cannot handle this high-end graphics anymore.

A bit of good news:

• There will still be those weekly updates (Just because the comics are on hold doesn't mean the site is!)


• CS SAuce may still be realeased as Benjy's CPU may pick up again and he might be able to squeeze a few comics out of it.

As for now readers of City 7 Breen, please accept my apologies, I will try my best to get this Graphics upgrade ASAP to bring you those 3 comics you so love.

Yours Sincerely,

Your Admin.

Tomb Raider Anniversary

I know as I write this that its completely off topic but, I just have to say something about it. Tomb Raider Anniversary is Lara Croft's next installment after Tomb Raider: Legend. Anniversary celebrates Lara's 10 years of game fame courtesy of Crystal Dynamics; its new developer.

If you thought Lara looked gorgeous before this New Year, you will think she's a godess compared to what she was before! Crystal Dynamics have imporved their Graphics even more! Lara looks like a girl that's within total reach of your arm length when she's running around on screen.

New Features:

• New Graphics: Lara looks even better on the PS2 and judging from the screenshots, it seems the PC version will sport the HDR (High Dynamic Range) feature once again, only used more often and better.
  
• Lara's New Moves: Lara sports verious new moves in Anniversary, Lara can now run along walls ofr a short time using her grappling cable. She also has a new slow motion move to compensate for Legend's overpowered slow motion ability, Lara can make headshots using her NEW slow motion ability, killing the enemy instantly. Lara also looses her balance and needs you to be at the ready to press the Triangle button or "E" key.


• Revisit Tomb Raider 1's levels, characters, monsters and puzzles, with a little few UPGRADES throw in here and there.


• Tomb Raider now sports music erasing the dull and silence of the old PS1 version.


• For those of you who played the original PS1 version, the T-Rex is back!

Lara's release date according to Gamespot is the 29th May 2007 in North America. You will fall in love with Lara all over again.

SCREENSHOTS:

Weekly Update #001

HALF LIFE 2 NEWS:

According to IGN, VALVE have delayed the release of Half Life: 2 Episode 2. The date they have delayed it to is unknown. You can read the whole article at the following link:

http://pc.ign.com/articles/728/728047p1.html

There has been a new Gameplay trailer released for Episode 2 and is available for Download from Gamespot. The link is below:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2episode2/download_ini.html?sid=6157256&id=6157256

CITY 7 BREEN NEWS:

The Counter Strike SAuce comic has been reassigned to another member of our staff: Benjy Tabuteau temporarily. Vish is currently trying to get his GMOD software set up and probarbly will not be able to do so until after July 2007. Further news on this will be given to you when possible.

HALF LIFE 2: City 17 AFTERMATH Episode 1 will be released as a full paper comic book after Episode 1 has finished online. Those of you who do not get the story or do not have access to read the comics can collect the paperback issue. The paper collection will be for free and in PDF format for download. Printed copies will also be available for those of you who live in Thailand.

-Also keep a look out for this week's comics tommorow!

Your Admin,

Michael Wilson

Dear Concerned Members

No, we haven't gone away and abondoned you!
The team has been caught up in some projects which end very soon on March 26th! All normal procedures will resume after this date. Also,City 7 Breen would like to announce that we are proud to say we have 2 new members to our team:

• Vish Kaushik - Elite Veteran of Battlefield 2142 and Counter Strike.
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• George Lerner - Another Elite First-person-shooter gamer and an expert on the Half-Life series.
  
• These fine lads will make a great addition to the steadily growing team, we hope to start fresh sometime around July to mark a new beginning to City 7 Breen, so be ready to enjoy some new treats for you members and non-members out there from City 7 Breen.
  
  

As for General Site News:

Some of you may have heard, The City 17 Aftermatch comic being published each week now is only 1 of several episodes to come. Episode 2 is already being made as I write this message and we are well under way with finishing off Episode 1.

There will now be a weekly news update on general Half Life, City 7 Breen, STEAM or VALVE games, events news and releases here at City 7 Breen.

For Episode 2 of City 17 Aftermath, the team is looking at implementing Voices for the comics rather than just plain text althoguh please be aware that this development is only in its very very rcent BETA testing and may or may not be implemented.

Please feel free to comment or e-mail me at anytime regarding anything City 7 Breen offer/has.

Yours Sincerely,
Your ADMIN.

City 17: Aftermath Issue #016

A deep look at how far their sisterhood goes...

And no Benjy, they're not lesbians!

Happy Valentines Day Everybody!

Dear readers and members,

Happy Valentines Day!

We hope that you all found your true love this week and good luck to all of you with relationships! However recent or long they may be. As for us at the ADMIN team, there's no holiday,a dn no relationships (sob...sob..sob)! We work work work! Ahhh...So is the life of a lead Administrator. Anyways, we hope you enjoy this week's comics.

Just as a quick note, we've come up with some new release dates for the comics.

City 17 Aftermath: Every Sunday

UNCONCERNED: Every Saturday

Counter Strike: SAuce: Every Saturday

Best wishes,

Your administrator,

Michael Wilson

Counter Strike: SAuce #016

I'm afraid I have some sad news to report about this comic, and no..It will not be shutting down.
I'm afraid this is the last issue I will be directing. We have a new member of the ADMIN team who's going to take over the Counter Stirke: SAuce faction.
Don't worry! The comics wil be just as good, this guy's an expert at Counter Strike, and he knows the game like the back of his hand! Eventhough i'm leaving the Counter Strike faction, I will still be directing the other 2 comics. So enjoy issue #016!

Thanks for reading,
Yours sincerely,
Michael Wilson

UNCONCERNED Issue #021

City 17: Aftermath Issue #015

This is the new Lighting technique we mentioned. What do you guys think of it? Tell us!
Just as a quick note:

• Counter Strike SAuce's Release date has been changed to be released each Wednesday.
• UNCONCERNED's Release date has been changed to be released each Wednesday as well.

• CITY 17: AFTERMATH's Release date has been changed to be released each Friday.

UNCONCERNED Issue #020

Just as a quick note, the due CITY 17: AFTERMATH issue will be released tommorow as we're experimenting with some cool new lighting techniques to improve the visual look of our comics becuase our Graphics card is so out of date!

Counter Strike: SAuce #015

In Metal Gear Solid: Portable OPS, me and my friend uses these things called: "MAGAZINES" Whilst playing in multiplayer it always distracts your MALE character!! Whilst my character is staring at this booklet on the floor, he shoots my character straight in the head. BOOM - Headshot! AHH! And he calls it a tactic. - How Frustrating!

I Know...

I know what you guys are thinking - "OI? Where's last week's comics?!"

Well, my answer was that I took a little break from making comics last week as it was my Birthday this monday (JAN 22nd).

Anyways, i'm still gonna realease a City 17: Aftermath comic because the comic really needs to move along. So look for that issue in te coming days!

- Your Administrator, Dr. Wallace Breen

UNCONCERNED Issue #019

City 17: Aftermath Issue #014

Counter Strike: SAuce #014

- We're finally back to the 1 pager guys! WOOHOO!!

CS Sauce: #013

UNCONCERNED Issue #018

Don't worry everyone! Just as our favourite-bullet-time-crazy rent a cop sombre detective Max Payne tells us, it's not over!