Pleasant Surprises and Embarrassing Stumbles

Maintaining a near-constant diet of video game news means that I can only remember so much, and many stories or unreleased titles get buried and sink to the bottom of the useless information heap I call my brain. Black Mesa: Source is a mod for Half-Life 2 that was announced shortly after the game was released, which is already four years old, promising a complete remake of the original Half-Life, not just the straight port to the Source engine that Valve made. Naturally, like any other ambitious mod that doesn't produce any news for years, I assumed it had died off, never to see the light of day. Then they go ahead and release this teaser trailer a couple days ago:


I'm excited, it looks and sounds like they've remade almost everything from scratch, eager to see if they've drastically changed a lot of the levels.

Also in a bit of not-as-awesome news, struggling publisher Midway, the company from whose rich history gave us Mortal Kombat, Spy Hunter, NBA Jam and countless great pinball machines (Through their Bally and Williams lines), has had the controlling stake of their company sold off to a single investor for the grand total of... $100,000. The lucky investor will also be inheriting about $70 million in debt, but still, yipes.

-K.