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The Battle Grounds 2 v0.15 Released!

Happy new year and happy new version of Battle Grounds 2 for the source engine. Again I quote this because it's as important as ever before: This BETA...

First Battle Grounds 2 Beta Released

The first official BETA version of Battle Grounds 2 for the Source Engine has been released and is available for download below. The BG team and especially...

The Source takes over.

Thanks to our outstanding community, Battle Grounds: Source, BG2, has started to come together. Early versions of BG2 can be found in the forums, here...

Progress Update

A few Release Candidates later, a good amount of bugs fixed and a little more visual quality provided. Work on BG 1.0f is not stopping. There are a few...

Back to the roots, the source of evil!

The times when we lack the time to write news posts, are always the times where the most progress is made. Even if it doesn't look like it behind...

BG 1.2.2 Trailer

The first of our two BG 1.2.2 trailers are now available. The first shows the full capabilities of the particle powered shooting effects and how this...

Lack of Servers & 1.2.2 Trailer

With the Battle Grounds now being advertised in steam, the player community increased has by around tenfold in the last week. More and more people are...

BG in Steam

The process of making bg being able to be downloaded from steam has begun. With the death of won and the latest steam update, there is new functionality...

New Player model, New Video

Another player models joins the BG family. This time its a scottisch highlander that will support the british forces in BG 1.3. The uniform of course...

New Dev Release

Normally I try to avoid news about development beta releases in the main news section. So people waiting for the next big official release don't...

Major Staff Opening

Battle Grounds is teaming up with more, creative contributers. We are looking for talented modders in the following categories:- Mapping- Modeling- Skinning...

News, News, News

Again good news!bgmod.com now has another new category. Something very visual this time:A video section. At the moment there are 3 videos available...

Saratoga Screenshots

Another small update is on its way: RC4 is almost complete, just one code bug and some map compiles are left before the already 4th release candidate...

Bots, Models and Battles

It is has finally happened. Bots have been created for BG. Cheeseh has added support for Battle Grounds in version 1.3 of his RcBot.The bots are at current...

BG 1.2.1 Rc3.6 and BG_Saratoga

On the weekend we released 1.2.1 RC3.6. It was received relatively well. We are hoping to be releasing RC4 today followed by 1.2.1 Final shortly. We are...

BG 1.2.1 and 1.3 indian model

My my, no newspost for 2 weeks. Battle Grounds 1.2.1 RC 2 (including new hand and powderhorn models) was tested last weekend and after extensive...

Particle & Tech Demo Video

Another amazing looking ingame video of particles and more now hits this news post. The video contains a fountain in a mediterranean yard. The drops create...

bg_entrenched

A new map has appeared on the BG 1.3 horizon. BG_Entrenched! This new map by Predator will blow you away when playing with 32 players. Beautiful yet...

Update and Community News

Busy day here, today. A quick summary of the news before I go into detail: BG 1.2.1 RC1 released to those who wish to test, Battle for Colonies announced...

new forum skin

It was time. The standard blue/white ipb skin started to look well lets put it that way "different" or not good enough for a revolutionary war...

New set of trees & bushes

Nature and environment has always played a big role in BG. Instead of the closed areas of the black mesa complex from original Half-Life we mainly see...

hirschfänger model

Several new melee weapons will be introduced in the next BG release. The Hirschfänger was used by hessians soldiers who joined the revolutionary war...

Particle Engine

Hola now because Ben got the new news posting system working I can post news again as well.The readers of my dev diary already knew about it, most others...

Ever wanted to make history? - Now you can

We tantalised you, we tricked you, we left little hints, we left red herrings and now we will reveal all. Some of you have been wild with your guesses...

BG Update

Its been a long time since the last news post. I apologise for that. Some of you may have been keeping yourselves up to date by reading our designer diaries...

The Line Battle Contest

The Battle Grounds is proud to announce "The Line Battle Contest" in association with Infra-Servers.comThe Basic Rules:To take part in the contest you...

Battle Grounds on TV

Here I am once again to give you all an update on our position. Since I last posted we have been featured and reviewed on European TV. The program and...

BattleField V2 screenshots and more

Well as promised, here are some screenshots of Battlefield version 2 by Render. He has worked long and hard on this. We had a play test on this map the...

BG Demo 1.1 Release

Great news

Great News: demo 1.1 Patch will feature useable bayonets.This was decided in a team vote a couple days agoThe pos_newengland and pos_farm maps are going...