The Valve-approved Half-Life remake is joining the Garry's Mod family 'by popular demand'

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Sandbox fun times simulator Garry's Mod has gobbled up pretty much every official Valve Source game into its toybox at this point, but there is land yet to conquer. Facepunch announced this week that the 20-year-old game's next patch, planned for April 29, will finally bring Black Mesa into the fold.

"By popular demand and with approval from its developers, this update will be adding mounting support for Black Mesa in Garry's Mod," the blog post reads.

That's great news if you're one of the tens of thousands of folks still playing Garry's Mod daily. Black Mesa, if you missed it at the time, is an official Valve-approved Source remake of Half-Life 1 made by the Crowbar Collective.

It's an excellent reimagining of the original that makes major improvements to Half-Life's animations, sounds, and weapon feedback—relevant features that Garry's Mod creators will soon be able to utilize in their own stuff.

While Garry's Mod has no shortage of add-ons that attempt to modernize Valve's base Source assets, there are loads of custom modes that c...

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