Black Mesa | Geekscape

That’s right baby! The very much anticipated mod of the original Half-Life game, the mod that has been in development for years, gets a release date…TODAY!

If you’ve been living under a digital rock for the past few years let me bring you up to speed. Black Mesa is a total graphical update of the original Half-Life game. When the Half-Life: Source game came out a lot of people were disappointed. It didn’t provide that much of a graphical update and only really changed the physics slightly. Gamers wanted a full update like what we got with Day of Defeat and Counter Strike source. So in 2004 a group of modders got together and created the Source Overhaul group which then turned into the Black Mesa project. What followed was years of Development hell and Vaporware. Pics would come out but we were never graced with a total Source conversion of Half-Life.

Then earlier this year the group said they were done. Very nonchalantly. Just “Hey guys, Black Mesa is done. It will be out this year.”. Then when Valve announced their Greenlight project Black Mesa was one of the first ones submitted and accepted.

Just as nonchalantly as they said they were done they released the mod! So check out the official site HERE. Check out the Steam Greenlight page HERE. And watch the trailer below. Be amazed.

Best part? You can pick this mod up FOR FREE!

Years in the making, it looks like the highly anticipated Half-Life remake Black Mesa will actually be coming out, and soon!

Not long ago on the developer’s Twitter account, the following was posted

Today is a Red Letter Day. Black Mesa is coming! Check it out!

The page linked in the tweet has gone down, as has the entire Black Mesa site (likely due to a surge of traffic or possibly the renovations that they mention). The downed page contained the following text:

We’re freaking out over here! It is so exciting to share this news with you!

You can now Download the Black Mesa Soundtrack, courtesy of our very own Joel Nielsen, at the very generous price of whatever you want! Enjoy and share!

In the near future you’ll see our Website, Wiki and Forums all taken down temporarily for renovations.

On September 14th you will see the first release of Black Mesa! This will include our re-envisioning of Half-Life all the way up to Lambda Core. We believe this is a great way to provide a complete-feeling 8-10 hour experience with a solid ending, make our fans happy and help us make the best overall game possible.

We are still working hard on Xen and BMDM, but instead of making you wait we are giving you Black Mesa as soon as it’s ready! We’re doing our best to help bring the immense vision of this project into reality, and we are very excited for what the future brings!

This is pretty great news for any fans of the Half-Life series. The then titled Black Mesa: Source was announced in October of 2004. The game is a free mod, and is a remake of Half-Life with all the power and graphical prowess of the Source engine.

Anyone else been waiting for this? I was 14 when they announced this, and now at 22 I’m finally going to get to play it!

UPDATE: The site is back online at www.blackmesasource.com. The main page features a countdown timer to the games release.

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