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.
It’s definitely a marketing campaign. The logo is literally the Black Mesa logo, and it has a picture of a headcrab on a scientist. I guess the team is releasing a new campaign or something.
This site is actually for a real company that has the same name and logo, but yea there’s some fun stuff going on here that I wanna see figured out
That’s how you know it’s not real. Valve owns the rights to the logo, especially when combined with the name Black Mesa.
Yeah, who would go to the internet and infringe copyright and trademark laws? That has never happened before.
/s
But for real. It’s a viral campaign for something but definitely not for a video game. Look at deadlock, that’s how valve does marketing now. They don’t even need ads or webpages anymore.
Says them?
Their address is a house.
Where do you see the address?
https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSearchResults.aspx
9 ALFRED CIRCLE BEDFORD, MA 01730 USA
So I went for a little drive…
https://i.imgur.com/gXWIXj4.jpeg
See that little black placard?
https://i.imgur.com/oglXV45.jpeg
Valve has the resources, yes, but wouldn’t go that far for no payoff. I’m convinced they’re a real company, not an ARG.
Pahaha if op keeps this up they’re gonna get this lab in trouble for cribbing half life ip
Apparently they reached out to Valve and got the OK from someone to use the name and variant logo, according to a comment I saw either here or on reddit.
Not if contributing to actual research, for which they applied for govt grants (and received) contributes to a tax write-off.
They have the means.
I’m not sure if you’re serious. Technically yes, Valve could set up a real biotech company, staff it, apply for government grants, receive money, and do actual biotech work… But it doesn’t make sense to do for a video game marketing stunt.
Why would it not make sense for them to do it? It is the most anticipated videogames of all time. The videogame community has basically taunted Valve saying they’re afraid to make the games and valve has been firm that fear does not guide them. So obviously they will go as big as anyone’s ever gone.
It in fact makes less sense that a biotech firm would call themselves black Mesa, and start up a faux ARG for the lulz.