Half-Life remake Black Mesa finally has a launch date
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Half-Life remake Black Mesa finally has a launch date
Polish up your crowbars
Highly anticipated: After 15 years of work, Crowbar Collective's Black Mesa is almost finished. Well, according to the company's owner, it will never really be finished, but at least it will finally get its version 1.0 badge soon. The game will exit Early Access next month.
Black Mesa finally has an official release date. Adam Engels of Crowbar Collective confirmed the game would be ready on March 5.
"As I write this, I am realising that we plan to FINISH Black Mesa exactly 14 years to the month from when I first joined the team," he wrote in the game's blog. "[Fourteen] years working on a single project, with a dedicated team, that had a vision, and saw it through."
Black Mesa started in 2005 as an ambitious mod to remake the original Half-Life using HL2's Source engine. The team launched the mod unfinished in 2012. It eventually gained the attention of Valve, which gave the team the okay to make it a standalone commercial release.
The new independent project entered Steam Early Access in 2015 without the Xen chapters. At the time, the team said the remaining levels needed "a considerable amount of time to complete to their standards" and did not have a timeline for completion.
The next big update came just last year when Black Mesa: Xen entered Early Access. By this time, Crowbar Collective had a better handle on how much more was needed and gave it a loose launch window of "early 2020."
The Xen levels have received considerable attention. They got a lot of criticism in the original Half-Life, so Crowbar wanted to be sure they improved upon what Valve released. The team has added new sections to the Xen world, more de