Black Mesa, free?

It's always been free iirc,
And yes thats the correct site

It is legit and yes the game is free.
Click the Download anchor/link and choose one of the sites from which you can download.

It's a great Source mod. Totally worth to play it :D

yes its free :D i finished 2 times :3

And while we're at it, sorry for being a derp. What is exactly Black Mesa?

looks legit because it's the official site.

I just finished it... Too bad it's not complete. What happens next??? D:

Hmm, This look's legit, Of course it's free. I think it was going to be a mod for hl2 but they made it a standalone.

Have they added Xen yet? Last time I went through it was around release and it wasn't in yet.

like others said, it's always free, you can get it from Desura too

Yes, this was big news months ago. I actually just started playing it again today, after getting Opposing Force and Blue Shift for just a dollar with that Day of Defeat key from GameFly (check the thread if you want details). It's a decent mod!

Oh, and for the record, there's a workaround for the wonky ladder system. Come up to it and push "E" to automatically stick to it.

Where is the best/safest place to d/l Black Mesa w/o having to register?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=94128543

Still not on steam? I thought they were going on steam? WTF steam?

The mod version is free, yes. The devs made a deal with Valve though (similar to the deal the Garry's Mod dev made I guess) and are going to sell an updated and improved version on steam. Been a while since I checked the forums there, but there is a post about it somewhere from the lead dev on it with all the info.

*Edit: Here is the post I am referring to. clicky

Copy/pasted the post here for the 2lazy2click folks.

"HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY HALF-LIFE! We here at Black Mesa have some big news!

The Big News:
Last year, Black Mesa was one of the first Steam games to be Greenlit by you, our amazing fans. We've had quite a year since then, with a lot happening internally that we haven't been able to talk about... until now. Black Mesa has been given the opportunity to be sold as a retail product on Steam! This is an incredible honor - one we never expected - but also one we found hard to accept.

We never developed Black Mesa with money in mind. Our team is made up of average, hardworking people, and no one joined the team to make money. For us, Black Mesa is purely a labor of love. We believe this philosophy has significantly contributed to the overall quality and feel of the game.

Our decision to sell Black Mesa rests on two key points. One is we believe we can make the game even better by having full access to the Source engine. This lets us tackle and fix limitations instead of working around them. The second is because frankly, our team could really use the financial help.

The Plan:
Soon you'll see Black Mesa available on Steam for a relatively low price. But we aren't dropping all support for the free version. In fact shortly after the Steam release there will be a completely new free version of the game. We also plan to open source our maps and some game assets to the modding community!

Purchasing the Steam version of Black Mesa is more about supporting the team and our efforts than anything else. However, the Steam version will include features that the free version simply can not have. We will be paying careful attention to feedback, and you'll have a very real say in how the final game turns out.

Long-Term Plans and Xen:
We've been overwhelmed by fan anticipation for Xen, and we're excited so many people are eager to conclude the game. To be totally honest however, Xen is still a ways off. Over the past year, we have spent a HUGE amount of time porting the game to a new engine and fixing hundreds of bugs. The work to port to the new engine was not because of the decision to go retail, this was work that had to be done to get Black Mesa onto Steam and support our future plans.

So, please be patient with us as we work to make Xen a stunning and worthy conclusion to Black Mesa. Until Xen is completed, we have multiple interesting additions planned for the Steam version of Black Mesa, which we will announce later on down the road.

Thanks,
The Black Mesa Dev Team"

black mesa is awesome :D

It's not finished yet, and yes that's the official site. It will have two versions, one is free (non-Steam), and the Steam version will be a paid version.
Operation Black Mesa and Guard Duty (Source remake for HL:Opposing Force and HL:Blue Shift respectively) will have two versions, too.