Archived from the news on the old Black Mesa website and left as it was written, so it reflects the game as it stood in 2006.
Welcome to the new Black Mesa! After almost a year of media silence, the Black Mesa Team is proud to present what we have been working on during that long period of time. All of our older media has been replaced with updates, just days old. We have finally picked winners from the community projects in our Public Forums, have updated our FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) to reflect new questions, and have updated our Job list with new positions.
It's been an interesting year for the Black Mesa Team. As we have gained more team members and development has really settled into place, we've been simultaneously increasing the standard and the speed of our work. Various models, such as the marine, were scrapped and new ones created (the old models not meeting our new self-standards). Throughout most of the year, we have been getting our assets functioning ingame and have started the playtesting process. This stage doesn't work all too well for releasing media, hence the media silence.
Unfortunately, not all went well for development. Over the course of the year the team had to endure an internal alpha leak, the hacking and subsequent deletion of the entire public forum database, multiple hackings of the public forums after that, and just recently, the deletion of the public website and the team's FTP account (with over 2 gigabytes of source files on it).
To combat these hackings, the team switched servers to GamerNode, a world-class gaming website that has graciously agreed to host Black Mesa. Under GamerNode's servers, the team enjoys greater security and more bandwidth. Our current website was also re-constructed for us, courtesy of GamerNode.
Now, onto the media. We are excited to be presenting you with new content in almost every area. We have categorized the media into sections, clicking on each thumbnail will further expand into all available media we have for that area.
We hope to never again have a period of time where media and updates are scarce. And to prove it to you, we've got "Stage 2" of the current media release coming up before the end of December. Keep your eyes open for that!
And finally, the 5th annual Mod of the Year Competition is now underway at Moddb. Going on now until December 14th, voting for the best 100 mods is underway. And then from December 15th to January 1st, the community will select the top 3 mods from a list of 100. In our downloads section, you will find several different pictures you can place in your signature on various forums. Clicking on the pictures will register a vote for Black Mesa!
Thanks for voting all, and enjoy the media.