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

submitted 1 month ago by foggy@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.world

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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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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the same name and logo

That's how you know it's not real. Valve owns the rights to the logo, especially when combined with the name Black Mesa.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, who would go to the internet and infringe copyright and trademark laws? That has never happened before.

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.