Black Mesa (video game)

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Black Mesa is a 2020 first-person shooter video game developed and published by Crowbar Collective. It is a fan-made remake of Half-Life (1998) in the Source game engine. Originally published as a free mod in September 2012, Black Mesa was approved for commercial release by Valve, the developers of Half-Life. The first commercial version was published as an early-access release in May 2015 with an abridged campaign, followed by a full release in March 2020 restoring the final chapters. Black Mesa was developed in response to Half-Life: Source (2004), Valve's port of Half-Life to the Source engine, which lacked new features or improvements over the original version that used GoldSrc. Two teams wanted to improve on the Source remake and eventually merged to become Crowbar Collective. The project was originally slated to release in 2009, but was pushed back significantly for quality reasons. Adapting Half-Life to an improved version of the Source engine and completely reworking the often-derided...

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