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New Half-Life Remake Trailer Looks Freaking Incredible

Nathan Grayson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:57:32 -0600

Black Mesa, a Source engine recreation of the original Half-Life, has sported an unwavering "in development" status for the past four years. After a while, we just started lumping it in with Duke Nukem Forever, Alan Wake, and the apocalypse as signs that God does exist -- but that He's one hell of a procrastinator. After checking out the latest Black Mesa trailer, though, we're belting out a different tune. Or at least, we're trying. The cascading tidal waves of drool blasting out of our mouths -- fire-hose style -- make it kind of difficult.

Fortunately, the mod will apparently scale the walls of development hell within our feeble lifetimes. According to a post on the official site for the unofficial remake, "the days this mod stays in development are truly numbered. Hang tight, because at long last, it is coming."

And then they prompt readers to GO WATCH THE TRAILER NOW. Which we think is a pretty good idea.

Happy 10th Birthday to Half-Life!

Andy Salisbury — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:10:14 -0600

That’s right Valve faithful, just this week Gordon Freeman celebrated his valiant service at the Black Mesa Research Facility for the 10th time. That’s a whole decade of butt that Mr. Freeman has been kicking, and he’s opened up the door for tons of other great games.

It was the release of Half-Life that really put Valve on the map, and the video gamer’s world is a better place because of it. Games like Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fotress (2!), Natural Selection and Left 4 Dead have all come out thanks to Half-Life's humble beginnings. If it weren’t for the release of Half-Life 2 and the extremely flexible and stable Source engine, much of the landscape that we all love to shoot up from the first person wouldn’t be here today.

So give your best wishes to all the fine folks at Valve that have kept a strong decade of gaming alive. Without them, without Steam, without Gordon, we wouldn’t be spending so many countless hours (well, counted on our Steam profile pages) blowing out zombie brains and cursing those clever Spies.

Valve's Steam Cloud will Keep Your Savegames Forever

Norman Chan — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:24:02 -0500

Major Steam update will permanently store savegames and player profiles online; plans in place to remotely save screenshots and multiplayer game demos. Plus, "Meet the Sniper" is the next TF2 video.

No BS Podcast #38: The Hard Drive Edition

Maximum PC Staff — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:00:13 -0500

In this weeks episode of the Maximum PC Podcast, the gang talks about hard drives, solid state drives, and Intel's X38 chipset

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Modspiration: What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Chris Adcock — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:22:07 -0500

Inspiration can't be taught or bought - but you can go looking for it. That's just what the Manta did. On a beach no less.

Black Box Cancellation Won't Affect ATI Bundle

Michael Brown — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:31:54 -0500

Valve sweetens the pot for gamers buying an ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT