2022-12-09 16:01 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
If I were a security guard at Black Mesa, my head would get crabbed within minutes of a resonance cascade. Not so for Barney Calhoun, who fought his way free of the facility back in Valve's 2001 Half-Life expansion, Blue Shift. Modding team HECU Collective have been forcing him to run that gauntlet again, so far releasing 3 chapters to their mod for Black Mesa - not the fictional company, but the very real (and good) fan remake of the original Half-Life. Chapter 4: Captive Freight comes out tomorrow, so it's a fine time to jump in. Read more
2019-11-19 09:14 UTC · Eurogamer
Like Doc Brown, I once hit my head and saw the future. I didn't come round in the bathroom having the idea for the Flux Capacitor, but I did bonk my noggin pretty hard in the office games room and sit back, dazed but delighted with what had just happened. I was playing the Budget Cuts demo on Valve's room-scale VR. Budget Cuts is a game about infiltrating an office that's patrolled with deadly robots. Because of the room-scale VR, you're really there: your actual body is your in-game body. This means that the robots are the same size as you - which is terrifying - and it also means that when y
2019-10-08 18:06 UTC · Community Announcements · mikela
A Half-Life update is now available that affects Blue Shift through shared resources. Please see the Half-Life update notes for details.
2018-08-21 17:35 UTC · Community Announcements · mikela
A small update for Half-Life: Blue Shift is now available: Engine Fixed bug in skybox image loading Fixed bug in demo command processing Prevent certain path characters from being used in commands Enforce certain extensions be used for files specified in some commands
2017-07-11 11:40 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
Though Half-Life is almost nineteen years old and its sanctioned fan remake Black Mesa is nearing completion, Valve have launched a wee patch for their pretty okay or whatever vintage FPS. The patch fixes a few crashes and exploits, and hit other Half-Life engine games too, such as classic Counter-Strike. Given how much of modern PC games history connects to Half-Life and its mod scene, I’m glad Valve are still tinkering a little. Earlier this year, they finally got Half-Life an uncensored release in Germany too. …
2017-07-10 21:34 UTC · Community Announcements · alfred
We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Blue Shift. Changes in this update are: Fixed crash when entering certain malformed strings into the game console. Thanks to Marshal Webb from BackConnect, Inc for reporting this. Fixed crash when loading a specially crafted malformed BSP file. Thanks to Grant Hernandez (@Digital_Cold) for reporting this. Fixed malformed SAV files allowing arbitrary files to be written into the game folder. Thanks to Vsevolod Saj for reporting this. Fixed a crash when quickly changing weapons that are consumable. Thanks to Sam Vanheer for reporting this. Fixed c
2017-07-10 21:34 UTC · Community Announcements · alfred
We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Blue Shift. Changes in this update are: Fixed crash when entering certain malformed strings into the game console. Thanks to Marshal Webb from BackConnect, Inc for reporting this. Fixed crash when loading a specially crafted malformed BSP file. Thanks to Grant Hernandez (@Digital_Cold) for reporting this. Fixed malformed SAV files allowing arbitrary files to be written into the game folder. Thanks to Vsevolod Saj for reporting this. Fixed a crash when quickly changing weapons that are consumable. Thanks to Sam Vanheer for reporting this. Fixed c
2016-05-28 14:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Gearbox’s Barney-starring add-on is the black sheep of the Half-Life family, although at the time I never encountered any reason why that should be the case. My teenage tastes were perhaps less discerning then, but more importantly any return to Black Mesa was irresistible. I wanted new monsters and new guns, everything that a young’un wants from a follow-up to their favourite shooter, and I also had a vain hope that maybe I’d get to shoot that creepy suit-guy
2015-10-05 18:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
Expansion packs were once a core part of playing PC games, but they can often feel less essential in a world of constant updates and microtransactions. Original game Alec, expansions Adam and Graham, and brief DLC Alice gathered to discuss their favourite game expansions and why they still think the model works. …
2013-07-31 22:05 UTC · Community Announcements · alfred
We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Blue Shift. This update contains all the changes from the recent beta, thanks to the whole community for their help with testing and suggesting new features. Changes in this update are: Converted Half-Life: Blue Shift to the new SteamPipe content system, for optimized delivery of the game Added support for Mac OS X and Linux operating systems Enabled Cloud support for save games Improved OpenGL rendering pipeline and output to leverage the capabilities in todays GPU Numerous bug fixes
2013-07-31 22:05 UTC · Community Announcements · alfred
We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Blue Shift. This update contains all the changes from the recent beta, thanks to the whole community for their help with testing and suggesting new features. Changes in this update are: Converted Half-Life: Blue Shift to the new SteamPipe content system, for optimized delivery of the game Added support for Mac OS X and Linux operating systems Enabled Cloud support for save games Improved OpenGL rendering pipeline and output to leverage the capabilities in todays GPU Numerous bug fixes
2013-07-01 06:00 UTC · Shacknews · Alice O'Connor
After a grand fourteen years of development, splendid Half-Life mod Sven Co-op is wrapping things up. It's gone out with a bang, releasing on Friday a new version which adds co-op support for Gearbox's expansion Blue Shift. For old times' sake, gather a few friends, put on your HEV suits, and go adventuring in Black Mesa again. "Version 4.8 will most likely be the final SC mod release, but this is by no means the end of Sven Co-op," the announcement says. "We have a major announcement to make soon," it teases, and we should hear something interesting in a few weeks. Sven Co-op was jolly welcom
2013-04-23 17:18 UTC · Community Announcements · alfred
We have released a Beta update for Half-Life: Blue Shift. Changes in this update are: * Added correct game sound track, mastered at 44kHz, 128kbit MP3 for better listening experience ;* Fixed test microphone button not working
2013-04-23 17:18 UTC · Community Announcements · alfred
We have released a Beta update for Half-Life: Blue Shift. Changes in this update are: Added correct game sound track, mastered at 44kHz, 128kbit MP3 for better listening experience Fixed test microphone button not working
2013-04-04 22:12 UTC · Community Announcements · alfred
Half-Life:BLue Shift, now with 100% more Blue!! Changes in this update are: * Changed hud color to match originally shipped blue tones
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