Black Mesa Latest Updates
Black Mesa's Xen 0.9 Update Goes Live
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Black Mesa's long-awaited Xen Update has finally exited beta and is available on live servers, bringing the project one step closer to leaving Early Access.
Black Mesa: Xen Beta is now available
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The long-awaited Xen chapter of Black Mesa can now be played in its pre-release beta version, though be prepared for bugs.
Black Mesa: Xen Gets Beta Release Date Announcement
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Black Mesa's full official release date has now been revealed! Prepare for Xen, better and more impressive than ever before.
Black Mesa - The Ambitious Half-Life Fanmake - Is Nearly Complete
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Unlike a certain few other publishers, Valve seem completely open - and encouraging - to the idea of fans doing what they won't. Those fans are almost done recreating Half-Life in its entirety, and they're dishing out a quick sneak-peek.
Free mod version of Black Mesa will omit Half-life's alien Xen levels
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Hey, remember late on in Half-life, where you got zapped to an alien planet and ended up in gladiatorial combat with a giant, quadruped testicle? Yes, that was weird, wasn't it? Well the free mod version of total conversion remake Black Mesa won't contain such a scene, development team Crowbar Collective has revealed in a Reddit AMA. In fact, it will omit the alien Xen levels of Valve's classic entirely.