Roma Loom, whom I honestly prefer to call Loomy, e-mailed us the most sexually arousing image the other day! No, it's not from the HRP, but it does "render" what might be possible in the future. Now now, which is more awesome? Shiny Hollywood stars or a Battlelord that is a potential competitor for his DNF counterpart? Oh Loomy Loom!

A few months ago we had a news item covering "everything you need to know about DNF." The information from that news item came from an online source which was only available to subscribers; however, it's recently been made public. If anyone is interested in reading the full Dallas Business Journal article on DNF, check it out. Thanks to Jobi-Wan Kenobi for the info.

Apparently some lucky Shacknews journalists were given an invitation by George Broussard to have a quick look at DNF at 3D Realms' offices. And would you believe it? They also used our Beloved Marty's Artwork of Duke killing a Pigcop together with their news, crediting it right back to our website. I'll personally thank Shacknews for that--thanks!

Go ahead and read it all:

4/23 Update: We just added two more art pieces to the gallery.  SEXY!

Check it out! Here's a sample of the content, by Marty, Micki, and Nihilanth, respectively. Further thanks to Alexander, Kev, Damien, and Smooth for sending in their art, and Micki for organizing it all!

From Zergwatch:

This is the sort of news that makes your balls tingle, yet bullshit has been known to cause AIDS, so sprinkle it with salt.

I'd like to thank our amazing community for helping to raise the money we need to move to a new server. We'll make an announcement once we've accumulated the sufficient funds to make the move--until then, more donations are welcome and appreciated.  Please check out our donators list of honor.

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Update 4/7/08:
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In-between major releases of the High Resolution Pack for Duke Nukem 3D, Nightfright keeps the updates flowing at his HRP Update site. This is a fairly hefty update, as Nightfright explains:

HRP UPDATE PACK v3.8
The most significant update yet! While v3.7 was about 14.6 MB large, the new release weighs about 27 MB! Notice that you should use EDuke32 snapshot v2008-04-01 or later, or you will experience display issues with explosions and some other effects. Have a look at these highlights:
+ SD_Duke migration: We took as much contents from SD_Duke as we could and moved it to HRP Update. This especially means frozen skins, but also effects (glass pieces, water splash, scraps, shotspark). Frozen skins have been fully removed from SD_Duke in exchange. Thanks to Hunter_rus for his help in this matter!
+ Exciting new effects: See the new reactor sparks, forcefields and electricity bolts that are now in place!
+ Detail textures for switches: You requested them, you got them!
+ Fixes for clock and reactor: #1060 and #1088 models had glitches. These have been removed.
MAPHACKS RELOADED v3.8
Some badly aligned sprites have been fixed (THX to Hunter_rus). Use with latest HRP Update Pack as always.
SD_DUKE MOD v1.2.4
For compatibility purposes, frozen models/skins have been completely removed from the mod. If you want to have them back, you *MUST* use HRP Update Pack from now on! There is also a new texture for SHOTSPARK1 (also included in HRP Update v3.8). From now on, the mod comes compressed with 7zip (self-extracting archive). Installation is the same, however. Just unzip to your EDuke32 directory.
 XXX-PACK v1.11
Adds two new frozen babe skins due to recent SD_Duke migration to HRP Update Pack. Only noticeable if you like hitting babes with the Freezethrower.