To add to the news of vaporware still being in production (referring to DNF), the long awaited mod for Half Life 2, Black Mesa (previously Black Mesa: Source) has been announced as nearly complete this week.  For those who don't know, Black Mesa is a mod that was announced six years ago and is a complete remake of HL1 using the Source Engine.  And I don't mean like the Valve-made Half Life Source Engine port.  The mod aims to modernize completely the experience of HL1, completely for free.  Though their website has not been updated in over 220 days, one of the texture creators for the project, "Orcone", is a member at Atomic Gamer, and Orcone brought them a nearly complete version of the game to play through.  They ran an article on it on August 31, calling the experience jawdropping and the project an "outstanding effort."   
 
This is wonderful news for me personally, I have been periodically checking out this project for years now, and to hear that it is almost complete is incredible.  They are stating it might be out by the end of 2010. 
 
Here's the trailer for those who don't know about this project: 
  

Definitely an awesome project, would be nice to see it finally done.

Awesome. Glad to hear it is actually still being worked on.

Thats awesome, is it still going to be free as long as you have a source game?

YYYYEEEEEESSSS

They should just stop delaying the inevitable and let Gearbox finish it now.

HURRY PLS

" They should just stop delaying the inevitable and let Gearbox finish it now. "

It's about fucking time.

Hell, it's about time.

Great! much better news than Duke Nukem

Yeah, if they announced Duke Nukem today, I bet anything's possible.

" Great! much better news than Duke Nukem "

Like Duke Nukem Forever, I will only allow myself to be pumped for this after it is released and on my hard drive. It's been years of them saying "almost done" and "by the end of the year." 
 
Funnily enough, there's and ongoing discussion in their forums of which game will be released first, although I give a small mod team a lot more credit for getting a game done without funding and without going out of business and having development finished by a team of professionals.

Funny. 
 
I remember them saying it was nearly complete... like a year ago.

Would be great to see this soon, It's been long enough for me to forget about it more than once.

And the race is on between this and Half Life 2 Ep. 3. 

" @Dalai said:

" They should just stop delaying the inevitable and let Gearbox finish it now. "

This should become standard procedure for all vaporware now. "

" And the race is on between this and Half Life 2 Ep. 3.  "

" You can see some of the production stuff things on their youtube page.
 
 http://www.youtube.com/user/BlackMesaSourceMedia    I believe there was a big deal about getting the cockroaches just right. One of the developers likes cockroaches. "

" Funny.  I remember them saying it was nearly complete... like a year ago. "

Almost completely forgot about this. Still looks amazing.
 
Please let it come out before the year is done. Pretty please?

" They should just stop delaying the inevitable and let Gearbox finish it now. "

" @InfamousBIG said:

" @Dalai said:

" They should just stop delaying the inevitable and let Gearbox finish it now. "

This should become standard procedure for all vaporware now. "

gearbox should forever be known as the finishers. or anti valve. "

Does portal (which I got free) count as a game which I can play Black Mesa on? 

Awesome, now if Europa Barbarorum 2 would just get a release date....

" Does portal (which I got free) count as a game which I can play Black Mesa on?  "

" Does portal (which I got free) count as a game which I can play Black Mesa on?  "

Well, I think it's safe to say that this isn't coming out THIS year. 
 
Unless... we still have 4 days left...