Valve boss Gabe Newell told 1UP that Portal 2 would allow the studio to take the concept and apply it on a much larger scale.
“One of the nice things about The Orange Box was it allowed us to try out a couple of different things, and Portal really seemed to resonate,” Newell said during his GDC spot.
“We got the signals that we wanted – this is what people liked; this is what people didn’t like. And to us, it was like, ‘OK, now we know how to take this big,’ so that’s what we’re going to do with Portal 2.
“It’s the best game we’ve ever done,” he added.
While the original Portal was fairly short (clocking in at about three to four hours), Portal 2 will be an standalone full-fledged game.
Portal 2 is due out this holiday season for PC, Mac and Xbox 360.
Max Schaefer, CEO of Runic games, the developers behind PC Action RPG Torchlight, said that the game may be headed to consoles and that a “serious effort” is being put into the idea.
“We’re going to put some serious effort into it — pretty quick — getting ‘Torchlight’ onto consoles,” Schaefer said.
“There’s a lot of really cool things about the console world, too, that would work well with our game.”
For fans of Diablo and Diablo-type games, Torchlight is an excellent addition to the genre, especially since Diablo III won’t be seen on PC for at least another hundred years or so.
I’ve seen some interesting things done with YouTube’s annotations feature. Mostly providing your own subtitles, notating certain points of a video, or taking you to a related web page.
I’ve also seen some YouTube channels where the page “breaks”, or is otherwise interactive. However, these are always done by major companies, not your average guy with a camera.
The crew of Hey, Ash Whatcha Playin? (HAWP) has found an awesome middle ground between these two and created a review of Mad Dog McCree (ported to Wii). If you want to watch the full review, you’ve got to “play” the quickdraw game and get a perfect score to finish.
As the review requires you to view the page directly from YouTube, I can’t embed it here. Check out the full review here and good luck.
You might remember this trailer for Deus Ex 3, which didn’t really tell us much of anything about the game. In fact, there’s no gameplay in the video. There’s really nothing in the video at all, except for some abstract… Stuff.
Well, we’ve got a new trailer for you, which shows off a little more than “stuff”.
Unfortunately, we don’t get to see any combat in this trailer, either. But we do get to see what appears to be the main character having some sort of trippy, angelic dream where he flies into the sun and burns.
It’s unclear whether or not you’ll be playing as JC Denton or another clone of him like the previous titles, but the likeness is uncanny, so I feel it’s a safe bet that you play as another clone again.
We’ve got some screenshots and the new trailer after the jump.
Fans of Lara Croft won’t have to wait long before being able to go on yet another adventure with the sultry archeologist.
GDC is well under way and Joystiq met up with developer Crystal Dynamics in order to discuss the upcoming title. The game will launch this summer as a download only, being released for PC, 360 and PS3. The full price of the game will be $15.
As confirmed last week, the game will be a top-down isometric, arcade-style co-op game, vastly deviating from the Tomb Raider series regular third person action perspective. Players will take control of Lara Croft and a Mayan spearman named Totec. Together the two will solve puzzles, destroy enemies, platform and, presumably, raid tombs.
Our buddies at PALGN already got their hands on the most recent Game Informer and courteously scanned and uploaded the delectable pages about Portal 2.
Not only that, we’re provided with some tasty offerings regarding the game.
Avast, ya scurvvy landlubber! Be ye a fan of t’ scallywags at LucasArts, ye be knowin’ them as the buccaneers who pillaged an’ looted yer coin purse with their adventurin’ games!
Landlubbers got t’ experience being a mighty poirate in t’ enhanced version of Monkey Island in 2009, an’ those greedy buggers from LucasArts arrr lookin’ to loot and pillage again, wit’ t’ sequel!
Treasure maps close to those brigands at t’ isle of Kotaku claim a refurbished Money Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge be on t’ horizon for t’ good ships Xbox 360, PS3, iPhone an’ PC.
Arrrrr! Time to hoist t’ main sales and prepare for plunder me hearties!
Update: GameStop has Portal 2 down for $49.99 and to ship October 26th of this year.
The new single-player will also feature a new cast character, fresh new puzzles and a larger set of “devious test chambers.” In addition, characters will explore new areas of the Aperture Science Laboratories and be reunited with sometimes-murderous A.I., GLaDOS.
The multiplayer mode will also offer cooperative play and not only require you to play cooperatively but to think cooperatively as well.
Original: Valve’s Doug Lombardi told Eurogamer that Portal 2 is hitting the PC and 360 this holiday season!
Probably not going to make it to the PS3, because that was an EA endeavor – Valve handled the 360 and PC versions.
Not only that, Game Informer said that Portal 2 is to be the cover star of the next issue!
I sure hope there’s cake!
Valve aren’t finished yet with their fun ARG and, well, there’s still more mysterious Portal on-goings being added to the game (sorry 360 Orange Box owners, this is PC only).
Watch the new ending via YouTube.
thank you for assuming the party escort submission position
Lucky European folks who haven’t bought Batman: Arkham Asylum are about to get treated to a Game of the Year Edition on March 26th.
And the kicker?
It’s going to have 3D capabilities which you can play on your standard or high-definition televisions.
On-disc there will be the game itself plus all the DLC Challenge Maps, including Crime Alley and Scarecrow Nightmare, too.
The game will be available for across three PAL platforms – 360, PS3 and PC.
Check it out March 26th!
Just Cause 2 demo is now available on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.
WHAT’RE YOU WAITING FOR?
There’s 35 square miles to explore! Get crackin’!
Demo weighs in at about 1GB of download, so you might be waiting a while. Also, no sign of a PC demo on Steam yet, but likely it’ll be up pretty soon.
Full game’s out for all three platforms on March 26th!
Valve are not going to let the worldwide PS3 outage steal any of their spotlight, right? Right. So, they’re letting the fans tackle their latest piece of viral marketing for what everyone suspects is a sequel to the award-winning game Portal.
An update to the game offers a new achievement called “Transmission Received” and has something to do with the in-game radios. The radios, when standing in certain spots throughout the game, will pick up interference which sounds oddly like Morse Code.
Get a piece of the action here, but there’s 188 pages (as of right now) of thread to sift through. A lot of it is fluff, but there’s a good amount of information in there. In addition, RPS seems to have uncovered some ASCII artwork for the game.
Valve, I love you.
Dang, I just got Alien vs. Predator yesterday. Guess I’ll be playing Portal instead.
changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations.
Why are you reading this?
WHY?
GO GET BAD COMPANY 2!
Buncha reviews after the cut!
Split/Second’s developer has some high hopes and expectations for it’s upcoming racer, citing it as the Modern Warfare and Uncharted of racing games.
For those not in the know, Split/Second is being developed by PURE creator Black Rock Studio, a racing game in which players destroy the very race tracks themselves in order to damage and set back their opponents.
If you haven’t already bought Dragon Age: Origins for your PC, but you’ve been thinking about it, EA is offering you 40% off Origins if you pre-order the expansion, Dragon Age: Awakenings.
But only if you live in the US.
Make your way over to the EA Store and you’ll find that if you order Awakenings, you’ll get the original game on PC for 40% off the $50 retail price.
Again, it’s for US PC gamers only and it’s only digital, so don’t expect to get a disc in the mail.
Awakenings is out on March 16th.
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