Dismissed as vaporware for years, “Black Mesa,” the remake of the acclaimed “Half-Life,” has finally been released. Following the 2004 release of “Half-Life 2” and “Half-Life: Source,” “Black Mesa” was announced that September as a conversion of the original game using Source, the new game engine created by game developer Valve.

I had Portal 2 spoiled for me by a man who posted the major twist in a thread title on the official forums – an instant permanent ban. Now, I usually don’t mind if something is spoiled for me, so as disappointed as I was, I didn’t get too angry. Then I reached the twist. The twist that would have been that so much more powerful if I hadn’t seen it coming. Suffice to say that there now exists a person whose day I’d like to ruin.

It’s easy to take for granted just how much “Team Fortress 2” has changed. Remember the commander, a class that was supposed to oversee the game from a top-down strategy perspective? Yeah, me neither, because – oh, right! It was in a version of the game that was shown to the public in freaking 1999.