Black Mesa: Source’s Release Date Announced
Black Mesa: Source‘s release date has been announced!
On the official Facebook page, the team behind the mod directs to this page, however, it’s down. So what do you do then? Well, you read Facebook comments and learn about the official statement anyways.
Black Mesa: Source will be released in 12 days, on September 14th.
The official statement reads:
We’re freaking out over here! It is so exciting to share this news with you!
You can now Download the Black Mesa Soundtrack, courtesy of our very own Joel Nielsen, at the very generous price of whatever you want! Enjoy and share!
In the near future you’ll see our Website, Wiki and Forums all taken down temporarily for renovations.
On September 14th you will see the first release of Black Mesa! This will include our re-envisioning of Half-Life all the way up to Lambda Core. We believe this is a great way to provide a complete-feeling 8-10 hour experience with a solid ending, make our fans happy and help us make the best overall game possible.
We are still working hard on Xen and BMDM, but instead of making you wait we are giving you Black Mesa as soon as it’s ready! We’re doing our best to help bring the immense vision of this project into reality, and we are very excited for what the future brings!
High-Fives Yo,
Carlos Montero – Project Leader
Excited?
Facebook CTO Leaves Company
Facebook‘s CTO, Bret Taylor, is going to leave the company.
The verge reports that Taylor is leaving Facebook in order to join “an unnamed start-up”. However, the departure has apparently been planned, or at least talked about for a long time. Taylor stated that he has always been upfront with Zuckerberg regarding his intentions to leave and join a start-up. Taylor has been involved in very central projects, both for Google in which he helped create Google maps but also in Facebook itself.
Taylor’s spot will be filled by Mike Vernal who will be leading the “platform-centric efforts”. Cory Ondrejka will be handling the mobile duties. Both of these work assignments were previously on Taylor’s table, so it’s a safe to say that he will be greatly missed.
Taylor also issued a statement through Facebook which reads as following:
“I wanted to let you all know that I’ll be leaving Facebook later this summer. I’m sad to be leaving, but I’m excited to be starting a company with my friend Kevin Gibbs.
While a transition like this is never easy, I’m extremely confident in the teams and leadership we have in place. I’m very proud of our recent accomplishments in our platform and mobile products, from Open Graph and App Center to Facebook Camera and our iOS integration. I’m even more excited for the world to see all the amazing things these teams have coming.
I’ve learned more than I ever imagined in my time at Facebook. I’m also extremely grateful for my relationship with all of the amazing people I’ve worked with here.
I want to give a special thanks to Mark Zuckerberg. You’ve not only been my boss for the past three years, but my mentor and one of my closest friends.
Thanks to all of you at Facebook for the most incredible three years of my life.”
Like ‘Black Mesa’ on Facebook to Unlock New Material
After a rather long pause in terms of updates from the “Black Mesa” project we’ve finally been graced with some type of update. Black Mesa’s twitter page tweeted, stating, “When the Black Mesa facebook page hits 20,000 likes we’ll be posting some exciting new media! Care to help?”
We don’t know about you, but we care to help. Click the link to be direct to the Facebook page.
Some have expressed their discontent regarding the PR trick, stating that it’s annoying that Facebook is apart of everything. I can understand how it can be annoying, but like a lot of things in life, we need some encouragement to actually keep doing. I realize that it is a cheap trick, but come on, you wouldn’t release something if you felt like no one cared. Granted, I understand how annoying it is to be teased and then left with hardly anything worthy of the hype, *cough’MassEffect3*cough*.
All I know hope is that Black Mesa’s developers will deliver something tangible. Hell, a screenshot ain’t going to cut it. A trailer might, but we already have one from 2008. If I could be hopeful and speculate, I’d say a demo would be lovely, but I’m guessing that’s hoping for too much. And yes, I am well aware it’s a modification.
Check out the game trailer from 2008 below:
[Giveaway] Paranormal – CLOSED
We have an exciting treat for our readers! Remember Paranormal? Well, The Geek Trench has teamed up with the developer of the game and we’re going to give away the game!
The deal is the following: we pick two winners, one grand prize winner and one runner up. The grand prize winner will receive Paranormal (when released) and the closed beta. The closed beta is otherwise only available for those who have pledged $30 or more over at Kickstarter.
The runner up will not receive the full game, you will however receive the closed beta.
How To Join The Giveaway:
Of course we got a few requirements, but they’re not that difficult to complete.
1. Follow this site (you’ll need a wordpress account or use your email address) or follow us on either Twitter or like us on Facebook. The more you like/follow, the bigger chance of winning you’ll have! (You don’t have to follow us on every account)
2. Share this article, use the hashtag #TheGeekTrenchGiveaway. Don’t have a twitter account? Share the article through Facebook instead! – You’re not entered in the giveaway until you share it. Also, make sure that we can see that you shared it. In other words, if you share it on FB, allow users who aren’t your friend see it. On twitter use the hashtag.
3. Wait patiently.
The winners will be picked randomly. Remember that you need to stay liked/following for the duration of the giveaway. The giveaway will continue on for a month’s time, meaning it ends on July 8th at 18:00/ 6 PM with the GMT+0 timezone.
This giveaway is closed. If you’ve won you’ll be messaged on either FB or Twitter, depending on where you shared the link.
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YouTube Plans on Improving Comment Section
YouTube is looking to improve the comments on said site.
YouTube exec Dror Shimshowitz announced this during a breakout session at this week’s Google I/O conference. Although no details were reveled.
One way to get rid of unwanted spam and mean comments would be to interlink the comments to your Google + account. This has already been implemented, and you can choose to show your full name on the website and when you comment.
However, before this is implemented and changed, you get a chance to review your comments.
You also have the choice to not link the two accounts.