Smells like an ARG / marketing campaign. Their "want to talk" email is "truthorconsequences@", they have two "blog posts" and a list of vaguely related press pieces (none of which mention them), their logo is clearly a derivative of the "other" Black Mesa's.
Black Mesa is a good game itself.<p><a href="https://www.crowbarcollective.com/games/black-mesa" rel="nofollow">https://www.crowbarcollective.com/games/black-mesa</a>
It's not clear to me if this is a joke/game/whatever or a real company founded by people who are really big fans of half life as they claim.<p>You can search for corporations in massachusetts where they claim they are located.[1]<p>Surprisingly to me, there are 4 results for "Black Mesa"<p>[1]<a href="https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corpweb/CorpSearch/CorpSearch.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corpweb/CorpSearch/CorpSearch.a...</a>
Seems like a bad idea for a company to name itself after the villain/location of one of the most popular games in history. Was Cyberdyne Systems taken?
This seems like a real company? They have a LinkedIn page with several dozen real-seeming employees:<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-mesa-technology/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-mesa-technology/</a>
<a href="https://blackmesa.com/resonance-cascades" rel="nofollow">https://blackmesa.com/resonance-cascades</a><p>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.<p>=====<p>Or so they say...
I don’t understand how folks are missing the article with the head crab photo while talking about logos and javascript.<p>> We love the Half Life community. In the last couple of days we've received a ton of messages of support and curiosity about Black Mesa. It's heartening to see that the internet can still be a place where people send inquisitive messages while staying respectful - thank you. Thank you as well to those who sent the thousands of fake inquiries on our website, they made us laugh. We loved seeing the creative messages.<p>> 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.<p>> We <3 all of you, you've made us laugh quite a bit this week at a time where we needed it.
We might put up a couple fun challenges and send the first solvers some swag. That is Black Mesa - the Boston biotech company swag.<p>> Our love,
> The Black Mesa team.<p>> PS: Gabe, call us. You know where we are.<p>Seems cringey as hell if they just decided to squat on the name and then pleasantly invite Gabe to call them as if that’s cool