Portal 2 - Price Drop

Image courtesy of Steam screenshotsIf you are in the same boat Proteus and I find ourselves in concerning Portal 2, as in you don't own one of the best games of the year yet, then we're all in luck.  Portal 2 has recently seen a price drop of $20 bucks making the game now $29.99 through Steam.  We meant to do the whole pre-order thing but kinda forgot and same thing happened during Steam's Summer Sale when it was nearly 50% off, but now we can make up for it any time with this recent price drop.  We're having to be gamers on a budget here with that whole pesky home ownership stuff, but it's a worthy trade off.  For your convenience here's a handy link to Portal 2 on Steam if you are interested in purchasing it. 

Portal 2 Music

Yes, I have done many Portal 2 posts, and I make no apologies. Todays post gives you free things, so I think you will accept it as well. Valve has been kind enough to release some of the music from Portal 2 for the low price of nothing.  So head on over to grab Portal 2 Soundtrack: Volume 1 and download it for your own listening pleasure.

Portal 2 Review - PC and PS3

Welcome to Aperture Science, where the future is now. Or at least it was until you destroyed the megalomaniac AI that was running the place. This was a little over a hundred years ago and the place has not seen any real love. You start the game being brought out of stasis by Wheatly, the AI that is supposed to be in charge of all the humans. Too bad you are the only one left and the others are "bloody vegetables". So now you two are going to try and escape this place before the management comes down and knocks some heads.

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PSN - Its On (Mostly) (EDIT)

Kazua Hiraj has announced that Sony has begun a region by region activation of the PSN today.  It is suggested that after you turn on your PS3 and update your firmware you immediately change your password for the PSN (like they have to tell you that).  They are slowly getting to each city and state and are saying it will be "several hours to restore PSN throughout the entire country".  As of this writing at 8:53 PM MST only 7 Northeast states had their service restored and given their estimate, we should be seeing a nation wide return to coverage by Sunday morning.  This is assuming they work on it all night.  If you would like to see the status on the return coverage check on the source link.  Good news is now you can start get Portal 2 on your PC for those that have it on PS3 and Mortal Kombat can start to see the online play it deserves.

EDIT: We now have a full return of the PSN.

Erik Wolpaw Talks Portal 2 at NYU

So you may have heard of this small game called Portal 2. It is the sequel of the lesser known game, get this, Portal. Well, if you were one of the few people that actually played this game you may be interested in having gone to the lecture that the writer, Erik Wolpaw, gave at NYU recently.  WHAT!!!! You don't live anywhere near New York and don't have the money to just fly out to New York for a video game lecture.  Well lucky you then, NYU just happens to have posted the video online in its complete glory for those of us not fortunate enough to live near NYU. So set some time aside (1 Hour and 21 Min to be almost exact) and give it watch.

Game Center Lecture Series- Erik Wolpaw from NYU Game Center on Vimeo.

Portal Turret

Ok, I make the update about the PSN, was getting ready to go to sleep for my early morning, and then I found this and had to share it. Someone made a model of the Portal turrets.  The thing is complete with a laser eye, motion sensor, and line spouting.  As if the soundboards were not creepy enough saying "Are you still there?" this guy has a full-sized turret to say it.  Check out the man's Filcker page at Portal Turret to see more pictures. Watch out though, that thing may not be loaded but I still don't trust it.

The Gameslave Podcast - Episode 71

The Gameslave Podcast 71 has arrived from a not so far far away galaxy. We have talk about the new Star Wars related announcement, some video games and anime. Wow we almost have the full gauntlet on this.

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Portal Co-op Player Guide Lines

So after the heavy information that has been coming out recently I thought today it would be nice to have something a bit lighter.  So I give you a video from the folks over at IGN on a very important subject.  How to not be a douche in the Portal 2 Co-op modes.

Mario + Portal

So I am sure that there is some actual news at there that I could report on.  I could mock the PSN some more, maybe further speculation on Project Cafe, or even randomly speculate on Microsoft's next console.  But that is not what I am going to do on todays post.  I have not gotten around to posting (or writing) my Portal 2 review, but I did find these portal related videos.  Do they give me some leway on the review until I can play the co-op portion?

PORTAL KOMBAT

Mario Meets Portal 2