half-life-source posts

If you want to celebrate the end of 2009 by playing a classic or new PC game, the folks at Valve have a selection of games on their Steam service that have had their prices cut for one day only. The games include the recent PC port of Street Fighter IV which can be yours for $9.99 for the next 23 hours.

Other games on sale include Half-Life Source for just $2.49, Shattered Horizon for $4.99, the Multiwinia and Darwinia bundle for a mere $2.99, Crysis Maximum Edition (with Crysis and Crysis Warhead) for $13.59 and Medieval II: Total War for just $4.99. Remember, Steam still has a ton of games and game bundles on sale that will stay that way until January 5.

Update: The web site has apparently changed the sale prices since this post was released. We have changed the prices accordingly.

Remember how excited you were when Half-Life 2 came out in 2004 and there was a bonus game called Half-Life Source? Valve decided to re-release their original 1998 FPS game but remade with their Source engine that they used to make Half-Life 2. Unfortunately the remake just put in all the old textures and character models from the original; the only visible difference between the original Half-Life and Half-Life Source were the more realistic looking water effects.

Well an independent mod team has been working for a long, long time (reportedly since Half-Life 2's release) on a proper Half-Life Source remake with all new textures and models. The remake is called Black Mesa (not Black Mesa Source as some news sites have stated). After years of development, they finally released a gameplay trailer for the remake this weekend and, well, it looks pretty phenomenal as you can see with some professional looking visuals. The trailer ends with a "2009" date. Let's hope it's not late 2009.

Download the Black Mesa HD gameplay trailer at Big Download (104 MB)