Tag Archives: Portal 2

Geoff Keighleys The Final Hours of Portal 2 now available on Steam

The $1.99 download features 15,000 words and a variety of multimedia supplements, including 360-degree panoramic photos of Valve’s office; audio from Jonathan Coulton’s song in various stages of development; a puppet-able Wheatley; and an interactive portal diagram. Among the reveals teased in promotional text are “that Portal 2 actually began …

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Portal 2 super review

Portal 2 isn’t everything I wanted it to be, but how could it have been? In 2007, Portal jumped out from behind the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, catching us unawares and stupefying our faces off, and we’ve spent the past four years canonizing it with jokes about Companion …

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Angry fans sinking Portal 2s Metacritic user score

Portal 2 may be fetching high scores from critics across the board, but Valve’s sequel is not sitting well with a small group of vocal players who have started tanking the game’s user rating on Metacritic over some very specific issues. At time of print, Portal 2 sits at a …

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Portal 2 comic to bridge gaps, explain cake

Portal 2’s 100-or-so-year leap from the original has opened up a lot of questions; namely, “What the crap happened?” and, “Seriously guys, what the crap happened?!” Meeting fans halfway, Valve is releasing a comic book entitled Lab Rat, which will bridge the gap between the two games through the story …

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