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Portal 2 Takes Kotaku’s 2011 Game Of The Year Award For Science, You Monster

4:00AM January 3, 2012 | Mike Fahey

After several weeks of debate, discussion, and deliberation, Kotaku‘s 2011 Game of the Year Award came down to a simple vote, and the majority voted for science. More »


In Real Life

Is Portal 2 Kotaku’s Game Of The Year?

2:00AM December 30, 2011 | Evan Narcisse

What Valve did this year seemed impossible: they improved on the perfection that was the first Portal. That feat was accomplished, surprisingly, by making everything about players’ return to Aperture Science less perfect. We got a scuffed-up, messier experience that resonated more deeply than any other game this year. Can Portal 2 open a rift to the top of this year’s GOTY contenders? Let’s see. More »


In Real Life

When GLaDOS Asks You To Marry Someone, You Say Yes

8:30AM August 23, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Gary Hudston commissioned three spectacular custom-built Portal 2 levels complete with fresh dialogue from the voice of GLaDOS, Ellen Mclain, just to ask his girlfriend to marry him. After watching the glorious spectacle unfold, I’m ready to marry the guy. More »


In Real Life

Portal 2′s ‘Want You Gone’ Sounds Even Better When Sung By Electric Guitar

6:20AM June 1, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Need a reason to learn how to play the electric guitar? YouTube musician FamilyJules7X demonstrates how well mad guitar skills and gaming go together in his triumphant electric cover of Jonathan Coulton’s “Want You Gone”. More »


PC

GLaDOS Begins Aural Testing With Free Portal 2 Soundtrack Downloads

4:40AM May 26, 2011 | Mike Fahey

While the brilliant and mostly dead scientific minds at Aperture Science aren’t busy coming up with new ways for robots to kill you, they like to kick back and relax with a little testing music. Now you can two, with the first of three “downloadable aural stimulus packages” featuring the music of Portal 2. More »


In Real Life

Some College Kids Get To Play Portal For Class Credit

2:40AM May 19, 2011 | Joel Johnson

“Enduring Questions” is a mandatory class for freshmen at Wabash College. The syllabus? Gilgamesh, Aristotle, Goffman, Donne…and Portal. That’s because it’s taught by Michael “http://www.brainygamer.com/”>Brainy Gamer” Abbot, profiled in this piece by Patrick Klepek that’s certainly worth reading on Giant Bomb. More »


In Real Life

Father And Son Bonding Over Hateful Robots And Edgeless Cubes

4:30AM April 22, 2011 | Brian Crecente

In a darkened room filled with boxes, we sit side-by-side and play. We talk. We laugh. We think. More »


PC

GLaDOS Is Powering Up, Is Portal 2 Imminent?

4:00AM April 19, 2011 | Mike Fahey

The potatoes on the GLaDOS@Home web page are counting down, and a cryptic email from GLaDOS herself arrives. What does it mean? Is Portal 2 about to open? More »


News

So How Close Are We To Unlocking Portal 2?

6:00AM April 17, 2011 | Owen Good

With two titles “completed” in Valve’s play-for-an-early-release stunt with Portal 2, GLaDOS says we’ve only shaved about 90 minutes off the scheduled release of midnight, Tuesday. Several sites calculate that the effort is much further ahead than that. Like, between 16 and 18 hours as of writing. More »


Meet Portal 2′s Wheatley, The Eye Who’s A Guy

7:20AM June 29, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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Today Valve releases the first in a series of videos covering the E3 demo for Portal 2. In the first portion we meet Wheatley, the personality sphere that’s cuddlier than a companion cube, if that’s even possible. More »