And they continually tried to outdo one another. There have been rumors of the two overlapping more in Half-Life 2: Episode 3, but they're nothing more than rumors.Īperture Science and Black Mesa are science facilities in the same universe. The references in either game (so far) to the other are generally vague.
They were rivals, and continually tried to out-do each other.Īperture ended up falling apart (probably because of the death of its CEO, Cave Johnson), whereas a Black Mesa experiment caused an apocalyptic resonance cascade, throwing the world into the turmoil experienced in the Half-Life series of games. Here's a timeline of the events.īlack Mesa and Aperture Science were competing science research facilities in the same universe. GLaDOS is made operational in one of Aperture's enrichment centers to portray the power of the new portal tech in Portal 1. Gordon finds the location of Borealis in HL2 and also finds out that their portal tech is far superior to Black Mesa's. Both Black Mesa and Aperture Science are trying to develop portal technology, they are basically competitors.Īperture Science develops the portal gun on the Borealis (a research ship, just one of the many places).
