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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Portal 2 released early. On PC, at least. Console game vendors still need to get with the programme
The console versions? Hmmm. You might still have to wait for them. Unless you’re Australian. The Australian wing of the Game chain, you see, have confirmed that they’ve broken the street date in line with the PC release. “Yay!” we thought. “Bricks and mortar retail that is actually in tune …
Read More »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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