If you’re a fan of the Half-Life Series, chances are, you know the company Black Mesa. And if you’ve played Portal, you know all about it. As technology progresses and as the Source engine tightens, they decided it’s time to revisit the past. They planned on recreating the first ever Half Life story, how it happened, and put a deeper more stable story to go with it. A triler has already been released but the unveiling hasn’t been… yet.

Here’s th trailer (watch it in HD if you can):

It is basically the first ever Half Life game with better graphics and gameplay.

An official website HAS BEEN put up. One complete with level designs, weapon designs, concept artworks, game models, and characters. It also has a feature where the community can actually design a character/weapon/level and just leave it to Source if they actually pick you!

Also, don’t forget to visit their YouTube Channel/Page. There, they show you trailers, tests, walkcycles and more.

All in all, the game looks promising! I just don’t know what people might think in playing a remake of a game they’ve already played.

[UPDATE: 02/08/2010]:

Also, if you’ve visited their website, you may have already discovered that the game WILL BE FREE!!!

YUP! As long as you have a copy of ANY source engine game on steam, Black Mesa will cost you nothing. Zip. Nada.

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I have been admiring Pixeloo’s works for a long time now and, just recently, I stumbled onto his YouTube account where he showed the very making of this magnificent untooning. Here’s the video:

His process of work starts from using a reference picture then layering tons of other reference pictures on top of it.

I stumbled onto this while watching SNL‘s real life depiction of Cathy in the Cathy Comic Strips where Jessica Biel cameos as Jessica Rabbit.

Another actress who assumed the role of Jessica Rabbit was Heidi Klum:

[UPDATE: 01/26/2010]:

Looking at Graffiti works on Facebook came to the discovery of the very Mr. Pixeloo himself. An artwork he featured on his blog showed up on Graffiti and I’m sure that this is him as his art style is the same. Check out the work on his blog here that’s similar to the Graffiti he drew here.  I can now tell you that Mr. Pixeloo has definitely a name: Mr. Alex Rodriguez. (SEE EDIT BELOW)

[EDIT: 05/21/2010]:

I quickly assumed without confirming. Mr. Alex Rodriguez may have been simply copying Mr. Pixeloo’s works as I have found substantial evidence that Mr. Rodriguez is NOT Pixeloo – Pixeloo’s Twitter account states that Mr. Pixeloo’s real name is Jan Pixeloo. Also, I have found Mr. Pixeloo’s DeviantArt account!

I don’t think there’s a game company that has the best and innovative games as ValvE. They have been making games since 1996 starting with Counter Strike, to the Orange Box to the best zombie game, Left 4 Dead. They have certainly have ramped up their standards giving us games that have a storyline and some action that requires brains to accomplish.