{"id":670,"date":"2012-09-14T19:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T23:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=670"},"modified":"2012-09-14T19:06:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T23:06:30","slug":"black-mesa-source-beta-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2012\/09\/black-mesa-source-beta-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mesa Source Beta Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are certain gaming projects that we just all assume will never see the light of day \u2013 Duke Nukem Forever, Black Mesa: Source, Half Life 3 but now we can cross of two of those three. The team behind Black Mesa: Source have released<\/a> a preview build of the game that includes all content up to the Lambda Core.<\/p>\n

Black Mesa: Source was a self funded recreation of Valve\u2019s 1998 classic using the Source Engine, the same engine that Powers Half Life 2 and Counter Strike: Source. After running into some legal trouble the group has finally released their modification, with Valves blessings.<\/p>\n

This beta version of Black Mesa includes around 8 hours of gameplay and can be downloaded here<\/a>. Be warned the file is rather massive, a staggering 3GBS, and requires the Steam Software Developers Kit.<\/p>\n

Look for our impressions soon!<\/p>\n

From our partners at Broken Joysticks<\/a> – Rae Michelle Langdon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are certain gaming projects that we just all assume will never see the light of day \u2013 Duke Nukem Forever, Black Mesa: Source, Half Life 3 but now we can cross of two of those three. The team behind Black Mesa: Source have released a preview build of the game that includes all content […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[149,148,61],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-beta","tag-black-mesa-source","tag-valve"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/black_mesa_source_1-600x300.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-aO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1541,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2013\/01\/simcity-beta-coming-soon\/","url_meta":{"origin":670,"position":0},"title":"SimCity Beta Coming Soon","date":"January 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"According to the official Twitter account for SimCity the game will be in open Beta from January 25th - January 28th. 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