Half-Life has finally landed for PowerPC based Macintosh computers 28 years after it's original release! Half-Life is a story driven first-person shooter, that follows scientist Gordon Freeman, who is a theoretical physicist trying to survive and escape the Black Mesa Research Facility after a failed experiment opens a portal to an alien dimension.

The game was originally planned to be released for Mac OS 9 by Valve in 1999, but was cancelled shortly before launch. Valve didn't bring Half-Life to Mac OS X until 2013 which was well into the intel based CPU era, and now we finally have a release for PowerPC based machines.

This port has been accomplished by GitHub user doctashay using a fork of Xash3D FWGS, (a re-implementation of the GoldSrc engine). It's playable from start to finish, includes multiplayer support, a demo of Uplink, along with downloads for Blue Shift and Opposing Force.

This release supports G4 and G5 PowerPC based computers running Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.5, and is reported to have solid performance on later model G4/G5s. Performance heavily depends on the GPU present in your machine, PowerBooks, iBooks etc. may struggle with poor performance and rendering issues, and G3 machines are currently untested.

This is a huge achievement for the Macintosh gaming community, and doctashay deserves considerable credit for the work involved in bringing Half-Life to the PowerPC platform.