Portal: Still Alive Not A Big Deal

Valve’s recently announced XBox 360 title Portal: Still Alive is receiving almost mocking press at the moment. Thanks to a report from Rock, Paper Shotgun, the additional challenges included with the game have been revealed to be the 40 levels from Portal: The Flash Version Map Pack.
The map pack, a 3D translation of the […]

No Comments »Filed under: StaffPosted on July 27th, 2008

Portal: Still Alive is Still Portal on Live

A Kotaku E3 video interview with Valve’s Doug Lombardi reveals that the recently announced Portal: Still Alive for XBox Live Arcade is just Portal with more maps. More maps as it turns out, is not a problem with the PC gaming crowd. Contrary to rumors circulating the internet, the only new experience you […]

No Comments »Filed under: Blogroll, ClansPosted on July 21st, 2008

Portal: Still Alive To Debut On XBLA

A recent video report on the Gamerscore Blog briefly mentions that Portal: Still Alive, a sequel (of some sort) to Portal, will debut on XBox Live Arcade later this year (specifically “this fall” according to Joystiq). It will feature “not only the single player experience, but also a new challenge mode”. Skip to the end […]

No Comments »Filed under: ClansPosted on July 18th, 2008

TF2, Episode 2, Portal, & Steam Client Updates Released

It’s a busy night for Valve games with updates being released for Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, and the Steam client itself. The changes are as follows: Portal & Half-Life 2: Episode 2Added a new advanced video option that allows the user to easily change the field of view to any value […]

No Comments »Filed under: Counter-Strike, Quake, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., StaffPosted on June 26th, 2008

Flash Portal Becomes Map Pack

I’m sure a lot of you remember playing the flash version of Portal, or maybe some of you still do when the boss isn’t looking. Well, the creator of the Flash Portal has gone a step beyond and created a Portal map pack based on the levels in the original Flash game.

No Comments »Filed under: Clans, StaffPosted on May 11th, 2008

Inside the Making of Portal

Game Developer Magazine has an exclusive article written by the creators of Portal - Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw, and Jeep Barnett. The article takes a look at the whole proccess of creating Portal, and well, the quote from the Game Developer editors pretty much sums it up.From the game’s university-created roots through to its Orange […]

No Comments »Filed under: ClansPosted on January 13th, 2008