Black Mesa, a video game that started out as a fan-made mod of the original Half-Life, finally has a release date. The original Half-Life was released for PC in 1998. Black Mesa takes the original Half-Life experience and moves it over to a heavily modified version of the Source engine, which Half-Life 2 was built on. There was clearly plenty of emotion behind the post by Adam Engels, now owner of the Crowbar Collective. Black Mesa is included in Polygon’s list of the best games to buy for the P

The developer of Space Channel 5: Kinda Funky News Flash! Related The story behind Space Channel 5 VRSpace Channel 5: Kinda Funky News Flash! is available for PlayStation VR starting today, nearly four years after the virtual reality reimagining of the Dreamcast cult classic was announced. In addition to the main story mode, Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash! Hatsune Miku is also the star of another recently released PlayStation VR game, aptly titled Hatsune Miku VR, that arrived in Dec

Xbox Live Gold subscribers and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members will get four free games in March as part of the Xbox Games with Gold program. March games will roll out on March 1 with Batman: The Enemy Within — The Complete Season for Xbox One. (These are available to Xbox One users via backward compatibility, too.) Here’s the list of when and where March’s Xbox Games with Gold games will be available:Batman: The Enemy Within – The Complete Season ($14.99 ERP): Available March 1 to 31 on Xbox On

Now it appears that video has been made private, possibly because she let slip some details about her appearance in Cyberpunk 2077. [Warning: This post may spoil a potential plot point for Cyberpunk 2077, while also referencing suicide.] In CD Projekt Red’s upcoming role-playing game Grimes will be performing a character named Lizzy Wizzy, the controversial front woman for the band Lizzy Wizzy and the Metadwarves. The future portrayed in Cyberpunk 2077 is incredibly violent, so it could be just

Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games’ Devotion was removed from Steam last year after players found an in-game item that likened Chinese president Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh. Devotion and Red Candle Games’ earlier release, Detention, will be preserved in the Harvard-Yenching Library, according to the studio. Red Candle Games pulled Devotion offline in February 2019, shortly after the game’s release date. The Harvard-Yenching Library is part of the Harvard University Library system. There are mor

Fans of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Ubisoft’s open-world tactical shooter, have been waiting for a new update for some time. On Monday, the developer said they’d have to wait a little longer; the new “immersive mode” won’t be out next week as promised. “The immersive mode will still release this Spring, we’ll share more firm timing as soon as we are able.” Leadership noted that investors should expect “a sharp downward revision in the revenues expected from Ghost Recon Breakpoint” just

Toby Fox’s “Megalovania” may be known as a five-year-old video game banger, but the meme behemoth actually has a more layered history. In fact, the basic tenets of the song’s popularity within video game spaces are perhaps the single best blueprint for understanding TikTok’s humor as a whole. It helps that Megalovania sounds like a TikTok song, both in its repetitive riffs and melodramatic, chiptune-esque palette. However, mashup culture on TikTok extends far past joining two popular meme tracks

Temtem may give Pokémon a run for its money in some ways, but one of the biggest drawbacks for the early-access MMO comes down to the monsters themselves. Crema published a content roadmap today, which outlines what the Temtem developer has in store for the rest of the year. Crema doesn’t list specific dates, just general timeframes, noting that some planned features may be delayed or tweaked along the course of development. You can read a fuller explanation of some of the upcoming features here

Another event has hit Overwatch, this time centered around Ashe and Mardi Gras. Winning three games unlocks player icons, six games unlocks a new spray, and nine games is the key to the new Mardi Gras Ashe skin. This Overwatch event also comes with an intriguing new Arcade game type, Experimental Mode. Experimental Mode is available to both consoles and PC. Depending on how Experimental Mode pans out, the new three damage mode may become a standard… or it may gracefully retire.

After the success of a reimagined Resident Evil 2 in 2019, a Resident Evil 3 remake is on the way, this time exploring the story of Jill Valentine and the nefarious Nemesis bioweapon. Capcom has announced that players will be able to try the Resident Evil 3 remake soon with a demo. It was written in the STARS…A Resident Evil 3 Demo is on the way. Fans are more excited for the single-player campaign, especially after the positive reception of Resident Evil 2. Resident Evil 3 is also the last of

Let’s quickly break down what we now know about the Xbox Series X.Xbox Series X allows for backward-compatible accessoriesThe accessories that you bought for your Xbox One will be compatible with the Xbox Series X. That means there’s an excellent chance that the $199.99 Razer headset you picked up for your Xbox One will also work on the Xbox Series X. That’s because both the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 will use solid-state drives, which allow for shorter load times and better performance. Ad

Star Trek: Picard, the newest Trek franchise series streaming on CBS All Access, just hit its season 1 halfway point with episode five of 10, “Stardust City Rag.” Star Trek: Picard is the first time even Picard himself has sustained a single narrative arc longer than three episodes or a movie. Which brings me to why I enjoy this episode: Whenever Star Trek tries to depict the “seedy underbelly” of Federation Space — that is, when Star Trek tries to be Star Wars — it turns out entirely laughable.

Devolver Digital’s latest game, Disc Room, is a run-based action-adventure in which players must navigate and survive rooms filled with deadly sawblades. It’s a fast-paced, top-down hardcore game for Windows PC, that’s reminiscent of classic arcade game Smash TV. Disc Room’s trailer shows a variety of buzzsaws of different sizes and behaviors, including some that move erratically, and even buzzsaw bosses. “The rooms in Disc Room are unique challenges of increasing complexity,” according to a Dev

World of Horror, a horror RPG with retro styles recently released in early access on Steam, captures too well the part of me that was desperate to go to the haunted circus and read that cursed book. This is not because I lack survival instinct, but a testament to how engaging the horror is in World of Horror. Lovecraft’s works, World of Horror is more strongly influenced by Japanese horror comics, especially the oeuvre of Junji Ito. But even without the grounding in Japanese horror classics, Wor

Since the console’s launch in 2013, players have been clamoring for a way to eject Xbox One discs from the comfort of their couch. The Xbox 360 allowed players to eject remotely using the Y button. However, the latest Xbox Preview Program patch, available to Xbox Insiders, appears to restore the beloved feature. According to a poster on the Xbox One subreddit, some Xbox Preview Program members can now press X on the Xbox One’s home screen to remotely eject whatever disc is inside their drive. Fa

And in Marvel’s Spider-Man, which lets players sling around in Peter Parker’s underwear, it means that someone had to decide how to depict Spider-Man’s nipples and butt. Midway through February, environmental artist Ryan Benno made an amusing viral tweet about the process involved in designing a video game character. Coelho-Kostolny is also responsible for Peter Parker’s three chest hairs, he tells Polygon. But to get Peter Parker’s nipples just right, Coelho-Kostolny told Fanbyte that he had to

Experimental mode — previously known as the Experimental card — will be an Arcade card that changes over time. Depending on how Experimental Mode pans out, the new three-damage mode may become a standard … or it may gracefully retire. These heroes will play differently to see how the game changes if a team has off-tanks in a heavy solo tank role. As for average players, damage players could see a much faster queue, thanks to their larger share of the lobby. Experimental mode goes live tomorrow

In November 2019, FIFA competitor and streamer Kurt0411 was banned from playing in FIFA 20 events by publisher Electronic Arts. Now, EA has banned the player from its entire portfolio of games and services. In a statement released today, EA said Kurt Fenech (aka Kurt0411) is “banned from playing our games and accessing our services” due to “serious and repeated violations.” The statement, released on Twitter, explained that Fenech had initially been banned from FIFA competitions and live events

Overwatch League owner Blizzard Entertainment will cancel three more weeks of matches amid the coronavirus outbreak. Matches in South Korea scheduled between Feb. 29 and March 22 have been canceled “in order to protect the health & safety of our players, fans, & staff,” the company tweeted on Monday. Earlier in February, Blizzard rescheduled a number of matches — originally scheduled across China, but canceled in January — to be played in a South Korean studio. — Overwatch League (@overwatchleag

Streets of Rage 4 will include four-player local cooperative play, publisher and co-developer Dotemu announced Monday. Previous games in the Streets of Rage franchise capped out at two players simultaneously. Floyd does have a tie-in to the franchise; his cybernetic arms were a gift from Dr. Zan, the scientist cyborg from Streets of Rage 3. Streets of Rage 4 is coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One this spring. Lizardcube, Guard Crush, and Dotemu announced Streets of