News - Sands of War mod for Half-Life

Sands of War 1.6 released

Our final version of Sands of War 1.6 is now public available! We finished it some weeks ago, but we were too busy with the SoW2 beta 1.1 release back...

Bots for Sands of War coming

Bots Ever wanted to play SoW1 without being able to find someone to play with? Then this is good news for you, bots are underway! For some weeks the development...

Sands of War 2 released!

The Sands of War team is proud to announce that the first public version of Sands of War 2 has been released! You can now download the mod and play it...

Sands of War 2 ingame media

Let me first apologize for the lack of news the last month. This newspost was actually finished several weeks ago, but has not hit the frontpage because...

SoW2 site and SoW2 release soon

SoW2 nearing completetion For several months now we(especially British_Bomber) have been working hard on Sands of War 2. A few days ago the first beta...

Announcing bot support

Bot support is something the fans have always requested for Sands of War 1. It opens up a lot of possibilities for both players and developers. Since...

The SoW2 fgd is now public!

SoW2 progress Sands of War 2 is coming along great, especially on the coding front. The second milestone has just been released to the team. It does already...

CMS system and more concept art

Site We are current in the proces of migrating all content on the site to a CMS system utilizing the forum. This allows for us to easily update the site...

Progress update

Version confusion We realize that it currently is a little confusion about what versions for what engines we are working on. That is for sure logical...

Announcing Sands-of-War2 gameplay

Until now we have not let anything specific out regarding the amazing gameplay in Sands-of-War2. We have just said that it would be different from SoW1...

Sands-of-War 1.5.1 announced

As you players probably know by now, there is a number of a issues with Sands-of-War 1.5. Usually we only release once each three months, but we consider...

1.5 Release!

The best version ever of Sands-of-War is now avaible for download! Head over to the download section now or DOWNLOAD HERE The SoW 1.5 patch is only for...

Help Wanted

Sands-of-War 1.5 gone gold!

WORLD WIDE – March 2nd, 2005 - The Sands-of-War™ team, one of the world's acclaimed developer teams, today announced that Sands-of-War 1.5, the...

Sands-of-War 1.5 release in a few days!

Sands-of-War 1.5 The release date for Sands-of-War 1.5 has been ratified. It is now certain that SoW 1.5 will follow the the 3 months development cycle...

Sands-of-War 1.5

Currently we working on two totally different versions of SoW: - SoW1: Sands-of-War 1.5 (HL1 mod) - SoW2: Sands-of-War2 (Source mod) Sands-of-War 1.5...

Sands-of-War on linux!

Linux Thanks to from ModDB we can now give you the files needed to have SoW 1.4 running on a linux server :) Just download this file and unpack it into...

Downloads up again

The default download mirror is now working again:) It has been down the last 24 hours because our primary mirror exceed their bandwidth limit - Sands-of-War...

Grows fast! Servers needed!

Since the release that was 5 days ago, 2000 downloads have been counted at our homepage! That means that there are many players out there who are searching...

Sands-of-War 1.4 released!!!

Download system with mirrors is now up and running for Sands-of-War 1.4! Yep, you can download it now! Click on Sands-of-War in the files section and...

Sands-of-War 1.4 done!

We have just finished the work on the best Sands-of-War version ever! Mirrors and download system will come up shortly. Here is the full changelist. More...

Sands-of-War 1.4 is very near a public release!

We have worked hard with the latest version of Sands-of-War, which probably will be the last version that uses the HL engine, we will after this do our...

Majorly increased detail in Sands-of-War

We are currently working on implenting detail textures into our maps. This greatly improve the visual quality as you can see in the following pictures...

2000 downloads!

If you check out the Sands-of-War files section you will see that we have just reached 2000 downloads! If you haven't downloaded Sands-of-War 1.3...

Particle engine

The Sands-of-War crew is proud to present the brand new particle engine for Sands-of-War 1.4. In this thread BB is showing of some work in progress pictures...

Sands-of-War progress

The news post you just started reading is number 9000 on ModDB! Sands-of-War 1.4 Release Candidate 1 The internal release candidate of the next Sands-of-War...

New grenades

The team is proud to present some new media from the next release. Work in progress of knife for the CoDe: Final flash bang, high explosive and smoke...

Servers

The first official /Defcon Software server is now up and the server name is: Mid East Meltdown Location: Texas, USA Soon another server will also come...

Sands-of-War 1.3 RELEASED!

Yep, you can download it now! Click on Sands-of-War in the files section and then click on Sands-of-War 1.3. If you are upgrading from 1.2 you will only...

Sands of War present Sow_Riyaq

Sands of War is proud to present Sow_Riyaq, one of the new maps that comes with 1.3. Riyaq takes place in Lebanon, The Subway has been bombed by the CODE...