Binary Gamer | Digital Gaming Reborn

Following from the rather excellent teaser trailer from a few months back, prepare yourself for the full release of Beyond Black Mesa.  BBM is a short Independent fan film Inspired by the Half-Life Video Game series centering around Adrian Shephard and a band of resistance fighters struggling to get out a warning about the impending [...]

HL2DM:Pro becomes the spiritual successor to the highly popular multiplayer Adrenalin Gamer mod for the original Half Life:
AG2 v1.0 Released
Today is a great day as AG2 is officially available. You can download the full installer and/or zip file in the download.
AG2 includes some very advanced features. It matches not only the players who wish to [...]

A little bit of dissapointing news from Black Mesa project leader cman2k. I can’t blame the team for pushing back the most anticipated mods of all time, they are following in Valves footsteps after all.
Hello Black Mesa fans!
We come to you once again with an update. It’s now the end of 2009, and we know [...]

Orion is a promising online multiplayer total conversion utilising Valve Software’s Orange Box engine.  Featuring fast-paced tactical gameplay on futuristic battlefields, Orion brings back the glory days of old school reflex type gameplay.  Featuring all the classic online game modes like CTF, Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, Orion will also feature a special unique game mode [...]

You may remember the recent Fly Gabe Newell stunt, Byteside blog was there and has the video on the Gabe Newell and Joe meeting.  Gabe talks about the strength of PC gaming and praises the gaming and modding community in general.

Gabe spoke the value of a community before introducing Joe. Said Gabe, of Joe: “Joe understands [...]

Ahh Phishing, sounds like something you do on a boat with a few mates and beers but in the Steam world, it can create havoc for unsuspecting users.  The specific changes to the client include:

Steam Client

Added contact email account verification by request and on new account creation
Improved account security with verified contact email to prevent [...]

Steam hasn’t died!  Just some scheduled downtime taking place.  If you are in OZ, you will probably be asleep or at work anyway unless you are completing a marathon gaming session.
Beginning at 6:00 pm Pacific time Thursday August 6th, we will be performing software maintenance on some Steam servers. We expect the resulting downtime to [...]