Given how much time has passed since Gordon Freeman first rode the automated transit system into our hearts, I think we’re all comfortable now with admitting one unassailable truth: every single moment spent in the original version of Xen is a nightmare. Half-Life 2 is 20 years old. Valve has marked the occasion with a revised and tweaked version of the FPS. But historically, it’s modders who have fixed the very worst part of the iconic shooter series, first in the superlative Black Mesa, and now in its spiritual successor. An unofficial remake of Half-Life Blue Shift is available to play right now, and it’s just gotten a new chapter that makes Barney’s excursion into the alien border world actually enjoyable. Continue reading New Half-Life Blue Shift remake is way bigger than the original and playable now MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Whatever happened to Half-Life 3?, Best old games, Best FPS games