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No Portal This Year – Lombardi
Posted @ 4:49 AM, April 26 2008, By: Evo In Portal
Portal was released last year and received great critical reviews and many gamers fell in love with the game, the Weighted Companion Cube became an overnight success, as did the game. Earlier this year it was let slip that Portal 2 was a certainty. Now Doug Lombardi has informed Eurogamer that we shouldn't expect to see any more Portal this year. "In typical Valve tradition, it won't be Portal with different colours," said Lombardi, dressed as a companion cube. "I think that when you hit something like that, you have two choices: you can quickly replicate it and stick it out there - do the opportunistic thing and cash in on it; or you can do the crazy thing like we did after Half-Life was so successful and go off and try and say, 'Okay, that was revolutionary, so its successor has to be equally as revolutionary.'
"That's the spirit I think we're approaching it in," he added. "You won't see a new Portal at retail this Christmas because of that. That's the trade off. People want more, but we don't want to give them more of the same right away because that would just be boring." Read more.
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Rock Band is “Still Alive”
Posted @ 4:41 PM, March 31 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Portal
Developer Harmonix has announced that Portal's credits song "Still Alive" will be available tomorrow for download for its multi-instrument music title Rock Band, Shacknews reported.
The first Rock Band song to be given away for free, "Still Alive" will be available for the Xbox 360 edition of Rock Band beginning tomorrow, April 1. Xbox 360 owners will be able to download the track from either the Xbox Live Marketplace or the recently-added in-game music store.
The track is only available for the Xbox 360 version and will not be available for the PlayStation 3 version until the PlayStation Store relaunches in mid-April.
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Gamasutra Interviews Kim Swift and Erik Wolpaw
Posted @ 3:32 PM, March 25 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Portal
Gamasutra had a chance to speak to Kim Swift and Erik Wolpaw, the lead designers behind Valve's award-winning Portal and now they have a massive 8 pages interview on their website.
It is very strange to say, but it had more emotional impact than some other things that really try to be epic and sweeping, and narratives that are all about revenge and you have to kill someone because they killed your father.
EW: Yeah. It's always more satisfying for me, personally, when I feel like I can sort of understand the villain in a book or movie and empathize with them a bit. It makes their villainy a lot more tragic.
This is a must read interview, don't miss it!.
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Companion Cube – Back In Stock
Posted @ 7:35 PM, March 24 2008, By: Evo In News, Portal
Everyone loves the Weighted Companion Cube. They loved it so much that when the plush version was originally made available on the Valve Store that it sold out within 24-hours. Luckily for all of you who failed to get your Companion you now have the chance to get it. Yes the Weighted Companion Cube is back in stock!
For $29.95 you can get the Weighted Companion Cube Plush for the Fuzzies. Knowing how fast they went originally you best hurry over to get them at the Valve Store.
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Games From The Orange Box Flying Solo
Posted @ 12:30 PM, March 13 2008, By: Hectic Glenn In HL2: Episode 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2
As already reported, from the 9th-11th April we will be seeing the games which made the Orange Box the success it was, released as individual retail games. The pricing scheme will be as follows - Portal - $19.99 USD
- Team Fortress 2 - $29.99 USD
- Half-life 2 Episode Pack (inc both episodes plus HL2 Deathmatch) - $29.99 USD
It's also important to point out the last in the list there still supports the 'gift' features, so if you already own one of those episodes or deathmatch you may gift it to a friend. Also all three packages include support for Steamworks achievements, automatic updates and more, and do not require Half-Life 2 to play. Also a reminder, to buy the Orange Box with all these titles together the current price on Steam is $49.95 USD (so a good saving if you want more than 1 of the above packages). Doug Lombardi says... With the flexibility of having different pricing and packaging options via Steam, we were able to test the market viability of the individual products. The results show an overwhelming demand for these stand-alone offerings as well as The Orange Box. This gives us tremendous confidence as we bring gamers more ways to get these titles at retail
New Box Art below:
Episode 2
Portal
Team Fortress 2 (Nice...that's more like it)
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Individual Oranges hit retail April 9th
Posted @ 12:44 PM, March 6 2008, By: DigiQ8 In HL2: Episode 1, HL2: Episode 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2
For those who thinks the Orange Box a bad deal because they already have Half-Life 2 and Episode One, Valve has confirmed to Joystiq that the individually boxed Orange Box PC games are due to hit physical shelves on April 9th.
Valve has yet to officially announce pricing details, but retailers currently list Portal at $19.99,Team Fortress 2 and The Half-Life 2 Episodes Pack at $29.99 each.
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GDC 08: A Portal Post-Mortem
Posted @ 4:13 AM, February 25 2008, By: -smash- In Portal
GDC 2008 has wrapped up on it's final day today, giving developers more time to polish up their new products for this years E3Expo. From Valve, nothing much was said or heard from them, other than Kim Swift's supposed "slip up" (we know how Valve thinks) on a future sequel to Portal. Packed wall to wall, one of GDC's ballrooms held the highest attended panel discussions hosted by Valve's very own Kim Swift and Erik Wolpaw. A discussion topic behind the design and writing aspects of the game were the focus of, what gamers call a "fresh title," their carefully crafted game, Portal.
Through the carefully measured use of GLaDOS's dialog, the team was able to guide players into becoming attached to the Weighted Companion Cube. Of course, this attachment only really existed so that it could be exploited when GLaDOS demands that the player "euthanize" the cube by throwing it into an incinerator, but it also helped players solve the puzzle while preserving and even bolstering the story.
Gamespy was just one of many attendees joining the panel. You can read their impressions and summary of the topic over at their website here.
More cake, please.
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Portal 2 Confirmed? + Rock Band Gets “Still Alive”
Posted @ 2:26 AM, February 22 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Portal
Doug Lombardi, Valve's Director of Marketing, had previously stated that " more Portal is definitely on the way". However we weren't sure if he meant a new update or a sequel. Until now on tonight's episode of X-Play Kim Swift confirms Mr.Lombardi statement and announce the sequel to Portal.
"Well, I believe Doug Lombardi who is our lead marketing director at Valve, has announced Portal 2,"
You can watch the full interview on G4TV website. We still waiting for a confirmation from Doug Lombardi, stay tuned.
In other news Portal's credit song, Still Alive Confirmed for Rock Band release. The news comes from Valve's GDC party, where Coulton took the stage to sing the song he wrote overtop of the GLaDOS vocals, according to Harmonix's Sean Baptiste.
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GDC Awards Results
Posted @ 7:30 AM, February 21 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Portal
At this year GDC with five nominations, Portal was the night's big winner at the GDC Awards. Valve's Puzzle game won the ceremony's top prize, Game of the Year 2007, as well as Best Game Design and the Innovation Award. While recapping all the nominees, Portal was the crowd favorite, drawing loud cheers from throughout the hall. Mr.Newell took first crack at the acceptance speech with a haiku:
Orange Box puzzle game?
Digipen students are smart.
The cake is a lie.
Congratulations to Valve and the Digipen students, you deserved it. To view you full list click here.
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CVG’s ‘Orange Box Dissected’ Part 2
Posted @ 10:13 AM, February 12 2008, By: Munro In Portal
CVG have posted the second part of their 'The Orange Box Dissected' feature, this time focusing on Portal. The games world has gone bat s*** over Portal. By the time you read this, there will be around 23,456 more blogs about the Weighted Companion Cube and over 1.2 million references on forums about "cake", beating the previous record set by "the knights who say 'Ni'" by 67 per cent.
You can read this here or you can start with part one.
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Lombardi Interview – Portal and Orange Box 2?
Posted @ 7:01 AM, February 8 2008, By: Munro In HL2: Episode 3, Left 4 Dead, News, Portal
Eurogamer have sat down with Valve marketing director Doug Lombardi to talk
about things. Things like Portal, and whether we'll see an Orange Box 2. Things
that you can read in the interview
here.
Eurogamer: You
obviously can't do The Orange Box 2...
Doug Lombardi:
[Laughs]
Eurogamer:
Presumably you'll just release Episode Three as a single standalone product this
time?
Doug Lombardi:
We'll see, we'll see. The idea of doing The Orange Box 2 seems kind of
contrived. It happened the first time because the three [games] were on a
collision course and a bunch of us were sitting around going "this could be a
nightmare", and somebody kicked around the idea of putting them together.
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Orange Box – Separated
Posted @ 4:07 PM, February 1 2008, By: Evo In HL2: Episode 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2
In a recent conference call to investors, EA announced plans to bring the three parts of the Orange Box to retail separately on the PC before the end of March. This means that any of you who don't own Portal already have no more excuses not to! Although no prices have been set, expect them to follow Steam rates. Portal $19.95, TF2 $29.95 and HL2 Ep2 $29.95. Videogamer.com
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“More Portal For Sure” – Lombardi
Posted @ 9:00 PM, January 31 2008, By: Evo In Portal
In a recent interview with Eurogamer ( link) Doug Lombardi confirms there will be more Portal, but he isn't what it will be like. "There'll be more Portal, for sure. But the details of that, to be honest, we're still working out," he said. Doug also informs us that new information regarding Gordon's adventures are months away. Check out the interview here.
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Portal Leads GDC Awards
Posted @ 5:45 PM, January 22 2008, By: Evo In Portal, Steam Games, Team Fortress 2
Portal lead the Game Developer Choice Award nominations with five nominations! Portal has been nominated for the following awards: Best Game Design; Best Technology; Best Writing; Innovation and most importantly Game of the Year. Team Fortress 2 is nominated in the Best Visual Art award. To be recognized in the Game Industry’s Only Open Peer-Based Awards is a just achievement for these two games, and here is to hoping they pick up the awards! Other Steam games in the awards include Bioshock, Call of Duty 4 and Peggle. Linky.
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Companion Cube – The Case
Posted @ 4:09 PM, January 22 2008, By: Mikael Grizzly In News, Portal
The Companion Cube is a well known celebrity. But what is better than a Companion Cube? No, not two cubes, rather a real, life-like Companion Cube that stores and protects your precious PC hardware. Such a case mod was created by Magnus Perrson who has published the results of his hard work on bit-tech.net, be sure to check them out!
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