Half-Life[/i] ARG…”> Enlarge / Kind of a weird image to post if you’re trying to convince people you’re not involved in a Half-Life ARG…
[/url] Here at Ars, we’re always on the lookout for hints and actions that suggest the long, long wait for Half-Life 3 may eventually come to an end. So when users across the Internet started making note of the mysterious and intriguingly named https://blackmesa.com/ recently, our ears perked up for signs of a new promotional alternate reality game (ARG).
Alas, this seems like yet another false alarm. BlackMesa.com is simply the website for Black Mesa, which confirmed in a public statement that it is “actually a real company in the Boston area… working hard to assure and secure vaccine and other biological manufacturing production.”
HALF LIFE 3 MIGHT BE GETTING ANNOUNCED ON SEPTEMBER 30THhttps://t.co/hSytiq2GoR Just went live and it has a countdown at the bottom of the page, that ends on September 30th. When it finishes it will display a white text saying “That’s it.” https://t.co/MK3QveRc6R
— PеQu (@ImPeQu) August 9, 2024
The BlackMesa.com domain name dates back to at least 2006, when the address was https://web.archive.org/web/20061014211724/http://www.blackmesa.com/. But in 2022, a page advertising the domain’s availability for purchase was suddenly replaced by a mysterious logo that bears a striking resemblance to the fictional Black Mesa logo[/url] in the games. And then there’s the hard-to-read cipher at the bottom, the kind of thing that an ARG might use to hide important information in plain sight.
