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Half-Life remake Black Mesa to be sold through Steam soon

Black Mesa, the fan-made remake of 1998’s Half-Life will be released through Steam soon. It’s an interesting development – this is a fan-made game that Valve, Half-Life’s creators are allowing to be sold commercially through their own service.

First released in 2012, Black Mesa is an impressive game that updates the 1998 game with much better graphics and bigger scale. While the gameplay is virtually unchanged, the soundtrack and graphics are completely new. The development team says Black Mesa will be available to purchase for ‘a relatively low price’, but that they will continue to support the free version.

Making Black Mesa a premium release will apparently give the team full access to Valve’s Source engine, which will give it more freedom to make the game exactly as it likes. The Black Mesa Dev Team also said it ‘could really use the financial help.’ This will also help in the development of the 15th chapter of Black Mesa, Xen, an alien world where the Half-Life protagonist Gordon Freeman is ported on his mission stop the aliens from invading Earth.

You can try the current version of Black Mesa here. It requires Steam and the Source SDK.

Black Mesa, the fan-made Half-Life remake, is finally available

black mesa iconEight years. That’s how long this fan-made re-imagining of Half-Life took to make. It’s an incredible feat for all of those involved and it’s finally available to download for free. If you’ve never played a Half-Life game, this is definitely the one to start with. If you’ve been a Half-Life fan, don’t think that Black Mesa has nothing more to offer than updated graphics.

Black Mesa has been re-scripted from the ground up. While the events in the game are lifted out of the original Half-Life; environments, voice acting, and musical score are all original. Once you start playing, you can see why this labor of love took eight years to make.

Black Mesa tells the story of scientist, Gordon Freeman, and the events that unfolded at the Black Mesa testing facility. Find out the origin story of the Combine invasion of Earth and re-experience this genre-defining game. Continue reading “Black Mesa, the fan-made Half-Life remake, is finally available”