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Anyone Else been following the countdown at blackmesa.com? (blackmesa.com)

submitted 3 months ago by foggy to c/pcgaming

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The bottom of the page there is a countdown that will expire at midnight Eastern standard Time tonight.

This company claims to be in Boston. They've received federal grants. I've done a small amount of digging, but it would be entirely within valves resources to set up such a company. They have a LinkedIn, but it doesn't really seem like anyone really works there? It seems like a viral marketing campaign.

There was a Reddit thread. A while back. Some people noticed classes in the HTML that referenced other half-lifey things. But, some people in that thread shut it down as nothing out of the ordinary.

Then, there have been recent leaks with regard to a new game being developed. Someone found a resume suggesting that a person had done voice-over work for an unreleased project with Valve in 2023.

There was also a leak of some files with .hlx file types, and I guess prior to the half-life alyx release some .hla files leaked.

In the .hlx file leak, I guess there was found references to things like the EV suit.

Here's a YouTube video that touches on all of this.

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[–] MurrayL 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nothing to do with Half Life besides someone there being a fan:

As many of you correctly assessed, we're actually a real company in the Boston area. We're working hard to assure and secure vaccine and other biological manufacturing production. As much as we would be honored to be part of any Valve game - we do not work in this sector at all. We are not secretly working on Half Life 3, Project White Sands (whatever that is/may be) or any other Valve title - we're just nerds working to secure the global bioeconomy.

[–] EndlessApollo 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There definitely is some kind of ARG-type stuff going on here tho. The timer ends on the planned release date of HL2, there's a link on the site to an email address, "[email protected]", and they literally said they had some easter egg type stuff hidden on the site to be decoded. This is a real company, but I'm very excited to see what happens tonight

Edited bc I missed some autocorrects