Tue, Sep 18, 2012 | 08:10 BST

Black Mesa Source out now, here’s how to get it

Black Mesa Source, a remake of Valve’s original Half-Life is available now after years of waiting. Relive your fond memories today.

UPDATE: it seems like the whole world is trying to download the game at the moment, meaning torrent trackers and download links are either slow or down. We’ve listed a few places you can get the game below, but bear in mind they might not be working at all times.

The announcement was made over at the official Black Mesa Source site, and the game can currently be accessed via official torrent, which you can grab here. A second torrent can now be found here.

Their site is going insane with traffic just now though, so the devs have kindly popped the game on to Dropbox too.

Black Mesa Source covers all of the original game up to the Xen stages, which will be released as a whole other game at a later date.

Props to AbsoluteZero for flagging up this Shacknews download link too. Thanks.

We’ve also got in-game screens while you wait for your download. You can find them here.

Thanks PC Gamer.

15 comments

Talkar
14/09/12, 4:34 pm

Correction: The game isn’t on dropbox, it is just the torrent. And the tracker for the torrent is down at the moment

DSB
14/09/12, 4:38 pm

I’m getting nothing, did they burn down the tracker already?

Oh right, thanks Talkar

They need to add like five or six more.

Dave Cook
14/09/12, 4:39 pm

@3 trying to get on their site is proving a real challenge :/

absolutezero
14/09/12, 4:40 pm

http://www.shacknews.com/file/32999/black-mesa-source-10-windows-free-game

Shacknews download link. Might be slow.

Add these trackers to your torrent software :

udp://tracker.istole.it:80
http://www.gameupdates.org/announce.php
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80
udp://tracker.ccc.de:80

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1152082&p=37663480&viewfull=1

More here, adding more trackers will make more seeders and uploaders available and get you the .7z faster.

desadoc
14/09/12, 4:40 pm

I found it on TPB by user “l3viathan2142″

desadoc
14/09/12, 4:42 pm

Thanks. I have peers now

DSB
14/09/12, 4:46 pm

I’m actually having more luck with the Shacknews thing.

absolutezero
14/09/12, 4:51 pm

15.9%

freedoms_stain
14/09/12, 4:54 pm

I’m just gonna wait til it’s on Steam.

#10

Takeshi
14/09/12, 4:58 pm

Downloading at 2MB/s now. Nice.

#11

GwynbleiddiuM
14/09/12, 5:06 pm

I can’t even get the torrent file, that’s how messed up things are…

#12

absolutezero
14/09/12, 5:12 pm

The dropbox link in the article still works just make sure to add the new trackers once the torrent has started because the original tracker is still down.

#13

DSB
14/09/12, 5:16 pm

15,3% Shacknews and torrent are head to head, roughly 300kbs.

#14

absolutezero
14/09/12, 10:00 pm

Its better than it has any right to be.

Its great.

#15

CPC_RedDawn
15/09/12, 2:15 am

Downloading @ 6.0MB/s with this torrent!

http://www.mediafire.com/?khmzyygg4vetko0

I will be seeding with this torrent as MUCH as I can, I have 5.0MB/s upload speed so I will try and use as much of it as I can!