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Happy Resonance Cascade Day Everyone! May 16th, 200- For those of you not at Black Mesa and survived the portal storms, please be ready for a change in world management! Art by RB

M4 Inaccuracy Trivia Something I noticed about the Blue Shift Mod weapon for the “M4” is that it’s actually not an M4. This rifle is actually a M16A2, which is the predecessor to the M4 and you can even see it right above the magazine port. M16A2 entered service with the U.S Marine Corps in early to mid 1980s followed by the U.S Army in 1986. The M4 was introduced in 1994 for select Special Forces, but did not enter into larger replacement service for the U.S Army for a decade, and the U.S …

An amazing Pre-Combine Strider concept piece by Serpy. According to him: “ When the Combine found them they made them much bigger and lankier, and replaced their trunk and headthing with guns and their feet with knives because they can do that. Their legs are strengthened with metal implants, and other synthetic augmentation keeps them alive and behaved.”

For those of you that don’t know, the Gluon Gun in Half Life 1 is based off of the Positron Collider Pack or Proton Pack from the movie Ghostbusters (1984). It’s entity model reference name in the files is even called “weapon_egon“ named after Dr. Egon Spengler who invented the device in the film. Here is a comparison between the two, with one being a real life build from the movie I have in my house.

Fan concept of Combine Hunters before and after their Synth Augmentation. Non-Synth render by Rogelio Olguin

“I walked the path that led me to the end…” R3

One of my old posters with Young Barney Calhoun in the Half Life Blue Shift arc.

Fragments of Red Trailer - SFM I worked with another SFM artist named L. Saile for a little bit on a unfinished SFM production that involved a girl named Red in a coming of age film, before switching gears to work on Reinstated. He's releasing a documentary soon talking about the film's unfinished status with a lot of hurdles that bogged the production down, along with any footage that was finished. Hopefully, it might ignite interest for some people to see finished.