Black Mesa, the name of the research facility that defined the Half-Life franchise, has been actively in use by a Boston-based manufacturing company.
However, their websitenow has a mysterious countdown written in small text at the very bottom, along with the exact same logo on top and a possible Half-Life reference in its code.
Adding to the recent Half-Life 3 leaks stemming from a voice actor's resume and various data mining efforts, the recent website discovery seems to belong to an actual manufacturing company.
But everything about it just adds to the mounting confusion and cautious optimism about an actual Half-Life installment.
Interestingly enough, the Black Mesa company, including its LinkedIn page, employees, and the previous version of the website indicate that it's a legitimate company.
Despite having nearly identical name and logo, the website states in the About section that it has active contracts with several U.S. Governmentdepartments.
If the latter is actually true, that should be more than enough to prove that the website is not part of a marketing campaign for Half-Life 3. In addition, the previous design of the website had an encrypted recruitment message that stated it was not part...