Black Mesa site updated. Prepare for unforeseen ARG.

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The Alternate Reality Game continues...

The site has now changed to a mockup news site.

COCHITI, NM -- Administrators and the military say a 6.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent natural gas explosion are the causes for the emergency alert system broadcast heard by many yesterday.

USGS sources say a 6.5 magnitude earthquake did in fact epicentre 3 miles from the Black Mesa Research Facility. "The facility at Black Mesa is very far in the desert. They store their own natural gas for utilities throughout the complex" said Major Frank Abrams of the Marine Corps Air Station at Yuma, AZ.

"This is a case of people following the correct procedures without verifying the need for those procedures. We are quite proud of how efficiently help was requested from the Black Mesa facility. We just wish that next time they would verify a threat is indeed present.

"We can confirm Marine aircraft were scrambled due to the possible threat of terrorism, but this was unnecessary as the explosion at the facility was merely an accident caused by nature" the Major reported light heartedly.

No one was reported injured by the accident. When asked about reports of people trapped, Major Abrams said he has not heard anything about it, but would immediately follow up with his people still at the facility. "We will have to review our standard operating procedures for incidents at the facility, but at the end of the day we are just happy no one was hurt."

A spokesman for Black Mesa could not be contacted directly, but a statement release by the facility cited an earthquake rupturing gas tanks as the cause of the explosion. There is not an estimate of the cost of the damage at this time.

Keep up to date with the latest news in our area by following KXBM's Facebook page.

Several internet sleuths have already found these hidden images in the site. It was also found out that some of the images on the site had messages imbedded into them, in base64, which are the lines spoken by the scientists in the original game.

• I suspected this would happen, but the administrator just would not listen.
• It's not our fault.
• Fat lot of good that Ph.D does me now
• I've been waiting here for ages, hoping someone would come along!
• Get us out of here before those military drones find out where we're hiding!
• If you let us all die, Freeman, you'll never get out of here.
• If you intend to go on, then, I beg of you, proceed with extreme caution.
• The dimensional breach is definitely transmitting organic matter.
• I can see you already know a great deal more than any one man is supposed to.
• The science team has been tracking your progress with the Black Mesa security system.
• Unfortunately, so is the military.
• With my brains and your brawn, we'd make an excellent team.(Script file's name)
• It can't get any worse than this. (In CSS)
• The alien species can't possibly all be hostile, can they? (In CSS)
• Why didn't they listen? (In CSS)

The search continues on the Black Mesa forums. It has also been speculated that the latest delay of Black Mesa was because the project was being moved to Source 2, with the help of Valve.

Here is an early video from Jan that resparked the ARG: