Official Valve Half-Life 2 Case Mod

Timmeh writes "bit-tech.net has the worklog from a Half-Life 2 inspired case mod, as comissioned by Gabe Newell. The PC mod was done by the same guy that did the original Blackmesa case mod."

Comments

Case mods

[tod_miller]

Are cool, I can imagine 'need for case mods: underground' where you unlock case fans, different colour light strips, catching colour drive bay doors and blanks.

You start at the beginning and pick a pink iMac and the commentator say 'oh, weak dude!'

I think EA have plans to release this next summer.

You can upgrade to over clock, bigger CPU and case fans, different colling compounds and liquid cooling systems (no2 baby!)

You then drag you cases out into the desert and then try and cool them as fast as possible. 0 to -60 in x seconds.

Then you use your l33t case modding skills to hijack trucks carrying tvs and dvds and sell them, and then have to go pink slips for a car that can load windows XP in 10 seconds, a fabled car called a 10 second car... it usually fires case screws out the back when you push it too hard...

Any other correlations between the geeky art of case modding and the chick laden sport of illegal street racing?

better pics

[fireduck]

unfortunately the blurb links to a homepage, which links to another page, which links to a forum posting, which finally links to a pictorial. go here for the final design, and begin the pictorial here.

that's some serious effort and artistic skill involved in this. the only problem with extreme case modding is that your project is obsolete by the time you finish it. (that and i wouldn't ever want to use the keyboard/mouse, those must feel awful)

Ugh

[Sentry21]

Not to troll or anything, but am I the only one that finds this case mod incredibly ugly? I would be embarrased to have this in my room. I didn't read any of the technical details about it, so it may be fantastically well-done in that respect, but I could not bear to look at it long enough to do so.

Case mods should be elegant and/or imaginative, not atrocious.

Meh

[_Sexy_Pants_]

Loved the old mod, but this one seemed like it tried to outdo it by simply adding more busywork. The metal "combine" things make the case look lobsided and, well, kind of ugly. There's an art to ugly, and adding more things is not the way to do it.