Free-to-play mech FPS Hawken is staging a fan-led comeback thanks to a new project called Hawakening. It's certainly not the first effort to bring Hawken back to life, but after the ill-received Hawken Reborn took the game in a whole different direction, this unofficial revival might just be what the fandom truly needs.
"Hawakening is a community effort to bring multiplayer back to life for the defunct CL142579 build of HAWKEN™," as explained on the project's website. "We have made this possible through cleanroom reverse-engineering, injecting our own code into the client and writing our own infrastructure from scratch. It is a labor of undying love. Our servers are self-hosted. We will never monetize anything."
