GTA Hawaii is coming on well now, we have lots of car makers, a sound maker and a textures maker, all we need now is more prefabs.

If you have Hawaii style prefabs please send them to gta_hawaii@xoommail.com.  Any prefabs used in the map will be rewarded by putting your name in the credits and possibly you will have URL and email links on the website. Please send your name, nickname, and usual email address with the prefab(s) and if applicable your URLand ICQnumber.

If you want to become a fully fledged team member talk to Graham gta_Hawaii@hotmail.com

1. Gamers Army has been redesigned and is now on a completely different server. We have moved onto GameSpy Network at http://3dap.com/gta however for those of you not keen on remembering new address you can still get to the site via http://www.niteshade.net :). The redesign also includes a brand new hosting package seen below.
    
2. Known around the scene mainly for our hosting we've taken the chance to open up even better hosting. We now have 2 wonderful plans for hosting:
   
   a) 20Mb, 3 POP3's, Unlimited Aliases and Auto-Responders, Unlimited
   bandwidth (together in  august GA and hosted sites ate up 20Gb of bandwidth, GA alone took 11Gb) and the top technical assistance around. See something you'd like added to the server ask and we'll try and accommodate it! CGI Fully Supported as well as Python and PHP. ASP users should use planB
   
   b) Unlimited Web Space, 4POP3's, Unlimited Aliases and Auto-Responders, Unlimited Bandwidth, 2-3 FTP Accounts, Full ASP support, sites needing CGI are recommended to use plan A.
    
3. This week we even have a great interview with the man himself Dan Houser of Rockstar Games. In which he details his favorite GTA game, his thought of GTA2 vs GTA1, and he even mentions a very special month all GTAers should look forward too.
    
4. 4) On the never ending list of great new things at Gamers Army. We've now added our own Message Board named Indecent Exposure. Currently in full ASP we will soon be switching to PHP or SQL or perhaps even CGI as ASP is quite slow when it comes to loading. The board is located here: http://3dap.com/gta/forums
    

Site Updates <4:00 PM CST - schu>
More phone troubles here, I've been without phone service for the entire weekend so I had them come out today and check everything out.  So far they "think" they found and fixed the problem, but we are talking about Ameritech here so I'm not expecting much.  Anyway, hopefully this will cure my connection troubles.

James Wants Your Help <11:30 PM CST - schu>
James wrote me asking me to post a request for help.  He has a "huge" GTA2 map but he is having some trouble with the script editor.  If you think you can help James out by giving him more information on script writing and making missions, please contact him at jmclauren@earthlink.net.
 
 

"Hi! How do you like DEMO version of my first ever TC (Total conversion)? This map will be FIRST EVER POLISH GTA MAP !!!! MADIDI is National Park in Bolivia whose description can be found in March's issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine ...

But in DEMO version you can only:

• play in 3 minutes
• drive only 1 route around Mojos
• see a half of cars, which will be in full version
• drive only in city, drive to jungle out Mojos is IMPOSSIBLE and PROHIBITED

 
But in FULL VERSION OF MADIDI you can also:

• PLAY MADIDI IN NETWORK
• see new intro
• see new cut-scenes
• hear polish and English sounds in cut-scenes and in game (the voice of Lop from KOMPUTERY.HELP.PL)
• complete description of the map in HTML
• many new cars and cool things
• 6 REALLY HARD, LONG ROUTES IN MADIDI's JUNGLE
• and many, many other things

GTAPL - THE BIGGEST POLISH GTA SITE ; Artur Lion [lion@bydgoszcz.com].

If you have and questions please write to me. Please direct all comments to the POLISH GTA SITES FORUM in topic "GTAPL map 1: MADIDI" <- in English of course, it's a multilingual topic about my map...

All information about this map can be found in the README.HTM file after downloading and installing with the SETUP2000 program.  Next you must install map to GTA with description in readme.htm in ZIP."

<Click Above To Download - 2.97MB>

Miracle Maker Site Redesign <11:30 PM CST - schu>
<miracle maker> has redesigned the Miracle Maker 2 site.  The site now uses Flash and features news and information on all of <miracle maker>'s utils.  To celebrate he has released v1.24 of MM2, check it out at www.miraclemaker.tsx.org.  While you're there, be sure and check out the update on 3/9 about GTA:Pulp Fiction.

GTA2: Seek & Destroy Under Redevelopment <11:30 PM CST - schu>
HinGTA sent in the latest announcement from GTA2: Seek & Destroy, including some great news on a new series of sites at www.gta-series.com:

GTA2: Seek & Destroy (gta2sad.gtaxtreme.net) is currently undergoing a major redevelopment which will change the look of the whole site. It will be redesigned with a user friendly design ditching the old frames look.  GTA2: Seek & Destroy is the GTA2 sector of a new GTA Series network (www.gta-series.com) which will have individual websites covering all officially released GTA games and add-on packs. The network should be ready for launch before the end of the year.

  
Site Updates <11:30 PM CST - schu>
Sorry for missing the Friday update but I really couldn't do too much about it.  I'm currently looking into getting a cable modem but until then I have to deal with this half ass ISP who provides connections that couldn't compete with a cup and a string.  Its not the speed, its the fact that half the time I can't even get most web pages to load up and it takes me forever to get a connection that will actually let me connect to my mail server.  Hopefully it will hold up until I get something better.

Midnight Club Official Site <12:00 AM CST - schu>
Rockstar Games has launched the official site for Midnight Club: Street Racing.  You can check it out at www.rockstargames.com/midnightclub.  While your over that way you might want to take a look at the official Smuggler's Run site at www.rockstargames.com/smugglersrun.

Chat and Hosting @ GTA Plus <12:00 AM CST - schu>
GTA Plus recently added a new chat room section to their site.  You can access the new section directly by going to chat.gtaplus.com.  In other GTA Plus news, Benjamin informed me that GTA Plus will no longer be hosting because of the new restrictions that Stomped put in place.  Namely, the Stomped banners and buttons.

Site Updates <12:00 AM CST - schu>
I just saw a preview for a new GTAesque game called The Getaway.  You can check it out over at Daily Radar.

The World of GTA2 Reopens <1:00 AM CST - schu>
Arnout has relaunched his site, The World of GTA2, at gta2.surecity.com.  Give it a click and see how you like the changes.

GTA: Epi Center Redesigned <1:00 AM CST - schu>
TheShit has redesigned GTA: Epi Center.  You can check out the new design at epicenter.niteshade.net.

Site Updates <1:00 AM CST - schu>
Ok, this is what I have so far.  I would post more tonight but my connection seems to be fu*king up at the moment making it rather difficult to check any of these sites out.