Portal 2 Announced *may contain spoilers*
 

No surprises there then, but portal 2 has been announced

"Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.

Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards"

If you view that announcement on steam you'll notice it has a hidden message.

drattmann0nee

Ratman lair is a term used for the behind the scenes areas in Portal.

http://store.steampowered.com/news/3559/

What's with the random underlines in the announcement. IS IT A CODE OMG!!

As mentioned before it does refer to the lairs, as well as being a login and password for the BBS. Dr Rattmann/H0nee

Screenshots and info
SS further down the page in imageshack links.

http://gameinformer.com/mag/portal2.aspx

Each icon is another piece of released data, including articles about its development, video interviews with valve, and a podcast on the subject.... but there is more to come. Worth a read, especially the history of Aperture Science.

If you've not played the Half Life series or Portal then obviously you shouldn't watch this, but instead go buy said games. Of course mentioning half life there in itself is a spoiler, so screw it.

Not if you've played HalfLife2 it's not. Or even heard "Still Alive". Makes it very obvious.

Its preloading today.
9.9gig in size..

Vid showing the multi co-op...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfvJQiZ8eS4&hd=1

Hahahaha, awwwesome Portal 2 videos. #2 was especially hilarious.

#1 "Panels" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qcED35LL8I&hd=1

#2 "Bot Trust" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZMSAzZ76EU&hd=1

#3 "Turrets" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-nMWgBUp0&hd=1

#4 "Boots" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX9Sc88qreg&hd=1

The portal 2 site has the first 2 parts of the comic, spoilers beware... maybe.

Portal 2 is releasing early. You can find out when, and how to help release it further from the link below.

http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/

Cant preload at the moment due to servers busy FUUUUUU.

Pffft, at 10 gig, Portal 2 is, like, 2/3rds of my monthly cap.

Have to load up 4 gig now, and then wait till after the 22nd to load the rest.

yay NZ internet.

(I'm actually using sneakernet to get portal 2 off someone else who bought it).

You... have a cap?

Gonna snag this on PS3 and claim my free PC copy :D

15GB bitches, and only cos orcon/vodafone are actually competing, cos it was originally 10GB.

I choose not to spend more on the net as I have kids and a wife and a house and shit to look after instead.

off peak uncapped ftw

vf charged me an extra 30$ a month over everyone else including telecom. They aint competing for shit. They just dropped it last month.

T - 01:16:21 and counting.

Donno if it'll unlock for us tho.

It should do, otherwise there will be a lot of pissed of fans.

Mines decrypting now:)

Just finished playing some co-op, very awesome A++~!

Does the 360 version come with a PC copy option? The courier has been, but the boy isn't allowed to open my package.

Suffer in ya jocks!

Bah - apparantly not. I was better off not even knowing!

hello, operator? Give me the number for CYFS.....
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Nah. I think this is a combination of an apology to PS3 gamers for the Orange Box fiasco (it was a disaster on PS3) and symptomatic of Xbox Live being a "closed" community, which would have made it a challenge for interaction between PC & Xbox 360 players.

On PS3, the game is integrated directly with Steam, which allows you to chat with your steam mates while playing it, play co-op cross platform and, if you link your steam account inside the game, it unlocks the ability to play on pc where you can also play from the same save-game (it saves to the "cloud").

I started playing it a bit last night, about 20 mins or so (my attention span for games seems to be dwindling) and I really enjoyed it. I loved the first Portal and this was a good start for the sequal.

I was love/hate about the Ricky Gervais wannabe robot but most of the jokes had me smiling. Loved when GladOS rebooted and was being overly nice to you in a meanacing way.

That's as far as I've gotten, looking forward to having some nice time in Easter to play it some more!

"We've both said a lot of things you're going to regret." ?

If so, that was in the trailer. Looks like it could be good fun, but I'll wait for a special. :D

Yeah it was but I decided to spoiler tag it just incase someone was on the rag :P It carries on for a good while after that too, it's actually kinda creepy.

Has been most excellent so far, I suspect I'm about 75% through single player. Also played some co-op on the night it was released, about 80% of it (in around 4ish hours), was pretty awesome.

It doesn't take long to develop a bit of a language to describe to the other person what you think is required, and the extra pair of eyes helps a lot with some of the puzzles. Some had us in stitches for how absurdly long we took to come up with what suddenly was the obvious answer right in front of us.

Not sure co-op would be that replayable mixing someone who hadn't done it with someone who had. Helps if you both haven't seen them solved before, I think.

Also free for Mac. There's a Steam voucher code printed inside the PS3 case.

My little bugger is picking up the co-op stuff too quick... Had to send him to bed!

Yay, got my PS3 copy of Portal 2... sigh, PSN is down.

If I had known PS3 had a free PC copy I would've gotten that :(

Portal 2 is easily the best game I've ever played.

Portal 1 coming in close(ish) second place.

I'm up to the part where GladOS turned into a potato, man I felt stink :(

I just absolutely love this game.

Confuckingcur

Finished both SP and Coop today, was great. Fantastic game.