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Barely has Valve released the Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC for Portal 2 and already the community of players has created over 75,000 maps for the first-person puzzle platformer.
Portal 2 impressed millions of people last year when it was released on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Since then, Valve launched one DLC pa... |
15 May 2012
02:37 GMT |
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In order to celebrate the successful launch of the Perpetual Testing Initiative for Portal 2, Valve has launched a Weekend Workshop Sale on Steam, allowing gamers to pick up Portal 2 for 66 percent off and to get The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with a price cut of 33%. There are also half-price items available for Team ... |
11 May 2012
04:32 GMT |
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Just as video game developer Valve has released the Perpetual Testing Initiative free downloadable content for Portal 2, the company has also announced that its platforming and puzzle title has managed to sell more than 4 million units all over the world.
Savid Sawyer, who is one of the level designers who worked on... |
9 May 2012
12:31 GMT |
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After announcing the Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC for Portal 2 last week, the first video promoting the add-on has appeared and, in trademark Valve manner, it’s quite hilarious and over the top. Valve has kept on supporting Portal 2 since its release last year, although its downloadable add-ons have been f... |
30 April 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Valve has announced the release date for its upcoming free DLC (downloadable content) for Portal 2 on all supported platforms, including Mac OS X.Titled Perpetual Testing Initiative, the content pack will arrive May 8th for all Mac gamers featuring an intuitive in-game map editor allowing anyone to design, build, and... |
28 April 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Valve has confirmed that a new downloadable add-on for Portal 2 will be released next month, in the form of the Perpetual Testing Initiative, which will allow users to create their own test chambers in an easier way and export them to the Steam Workshop.
Portal 2 impressed lots of gamers last year when it was releas... |
27 April 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Portal 2, the action and puzzle game from Valve, has been the big winner of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards dedicated to video games and the big surprise of the night was that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, from Bethesda, has not picked up any awards despite the big impact it had on gaming during... |
19 March 2012
03:22 GMT |
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The 2012 Game Developers Choice Awards were announced last night during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and the big winners were The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim from Bethesda, who picked up the Game of the Year award, and Portal 2 from Valve, which managed to get three prizes.
Todd Howard, who is the gam... |
8 March 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Video game critics in New York have launched a new awards initiative which is designed to honor games hat have a connection with the city and have displayed outstanding quality, with the first batch given out late on Friday.
Here are the winners of the awards given out by video game critics in New York City:
Manhat... |
4 February 2012
06:06 GMT |
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When asked about their favorite games of the year that ended a few days ago a majority of developers based in Japan have provided the surprising answer of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the open world first person role playing game from Bethesda.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was the choice of such developers as Naoki Yos... |
5 January 2012
10:41 GMT |
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At the end of each year gamers take a look back at some of the experiences they went through and compare them to previous years. While we were certainly treated with quite a lot of impressive periods in recent times, 2011, at least in my view, managed to outshine them all, seeing a huge amount of great games, both tr... |
31 December 2011
09:31 GMT |
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2011 was a stunning year for gaming, with a huge number of quality titles being released in the last 12 months. While we were treated with plenty of worthy contenders, especially at the end of the year, the runner up for our Game of the Year award is Portal 2, which appeared back in April.
We already praised the fir... |
31 December 2011
05:01 GMT |
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This year was ripe with quite a lot of decent stories delivered by video games, some hilarious, some controversial, while others were there purely to provide a bare-bone narrative to the action. Portal 2, however, delivered one of the most impressive stories of them all.Valve has always tried to create great gameplay... |
22 December 2011
06:58 GMT |
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A marketing representative working for UberEnd, the company who is creating Monday Night Combat, has spotted a Valve employee at a local game developer event wearing a T-shirt bearing the possible logo for Half-Life 3.His Twitter message says: “All I'm saying is I saw this at a local game developer event w... |
2 December 2011
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CrossOver Games, a commercial graphical user interface built on the latest versions of Wine, is now at version 10.2.0. CodeWeavers, the developers of CrossOver Games interface, have released a maintenance update. Without any further ado, here are the changes found in CrossOver Games 10.2.0:· The behavior of Pl... |
30 November 2011
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Spike has announced that video games that will be battling for the Game of the Year awards at the 2011 Video Game Awards, which will be presented on December 10 during a ceremony which will also see a number of game reveals, including a new title from BioWare.Here's the full list of nominees:Game of the YearBatm... |
17 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Valve has confirmed that a new update is coming for Portal 2, which puts a heavier emphasis on user generated content, packing in a new map editor and infrastructure improvements so that players can share their own creations with others.Portal 2 received its first big add-on pack a few weeks ago, in the form of the P... |
24 October 2011
05:03 GMT |
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The 29th edition of the GamesMasters Golden Joysticks Awards has taken place in London and the big winner of the night was Portal 2, the first person puzzle and platformer created by Valve, which picked up the Alienware sponsored Ultimate Game of the Year prize.The awards are voted on by the gaming public and managed... |
24 October 2011
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One of the leading developers at Valve has said that the company will continue to offer incremental updates for its Source video game engine instead of trying to create a completely new version in the near term.Talking to GamingLives Valve's Chet Faliszek has stated, “That’s just the way we work with... |
19 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Speaking at the GDC Online event one of the leading developers at Valve revealed how a big mistake lead to one of the most interesting scenes in the puzzle platformer Portal 2.Eric Wolpaw, who is the writer at Valve who was in charge of writing Portal 2, spoke about the original plans for the GLaDOS potato carrying s... |
12 October 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Portal 2 on the Xbox 360 has just received its first piece of proper downloadable content, in the form of the Peer Review add-on, which is now live on the Xbox 360 platform, and also scheduled to appear later today or tomorrow, October 5, for the PlayStation 3, as well as on the PC and Mac platforms, completely free ... |
4 October 2011
09:56 GMT |
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Portal 2, the hugely successful first-person puzzle game from Valve, has received the third and last downloadable chapter of its free soundtrack, which is now available from the game's Think With Portals website.
Portal 2 impressed a huge number of gamers from all around the world, across platforms like the P... |
4 October 2011
02:37 GMT |
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Video game developer Valve has announced that the Peer Review content pack for Portal 2 will be launched on the Steam digital distribution service, the Xbox Live Microsoft service and the PlayStation Network on October 4.The DLC will be free for all those who own the original game and will include a section which exp... |
3 October 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Trading on Valve's Steam digital distribution platform is now available to all its users, after being limited just to those enrolled in beta testing for the service.
Digital distribution is big business at least on the PC platform, and Valve's Steam is leading the way by implementing lots of great featur... |
8 September 2011
02:32 GMT |
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Valve boss Gabe Newell has revealed that his company's newest game, Portal 2, managed to sell better on the PC than on consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, surprising the company which expected the new title to follow the foot steps of Left 4 Dead 2, which appealed more to console owners.
Portal 2 wa... |
31 August 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Valve, the company behind massively successful games like Half Life or the more recent Portal 2, has congratulated Sony on opening up its online gaming strategy for the PlayStation 3, by allowing the company, alongside other developers, to bring their online services to the device.
Home consoles are pretty closed ... |
23 August 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it has performed well during the first fiscal quarter of 2012, which ended on June 30, and reported a profit of 221 million dollars, which is a significant 23 percent more than during the same period of last year.
The company also reported that overall revenu... |
27 July 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: This week I will be playing the going to the seaside real life game, complete with the transportation on full highways mini game and the how much sunscreen do I need to apply this year side quest.This means that I will not be able to fire up my PC and get some more time with recent releases and wit... |
24 June 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Valve has long been seen by gamers as one of the main video game developers when it comes to the PC market, mainly because of their support for Steam, but the company has also made steady inroads on home gaming console with titles like the Left 4 Dead series and with the recently released Portal 2.And now the company... |
23 June 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Gabe Newell, the current managing director at Valve, has said that Portal 2 has managed to sell more than 3 million copies since launch and is on track to get better overall sales figures that the first title in the series.Newell was talking at the Games for Change conference at the Games for Learning Institute and h... |
23 June 2011
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L.A. Noire, the video game that was created by Team Bondi with help from Rockstar, has managed to retain its first place in the United Kingdom video game chart, fending off the challenge coming from Dirt 3, the rally racing game coming from indigenous developer and publisher Codemasters.
L.A. Noire has managed to ... |
1 June 2011
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Portal 2 fans need to put on their thinking hats this week, as Valve, in cooperation with the Thinking with Portal community, has started the special Summer Mapping Initiative contest.
Portal 2 impressed a huge amount of gamers last month when Valve released the first-person puzzle title onto the world.
Now, se... |
30 May 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Valve has released more free goodies for fans of its recent Portal 2 title, with the first of three original soundtrack albums being available for download completely free. Portal 2 impressed plenty of critics and regular players alike with its smart and hilarious story, tricky puzzles and top-notch single-player an... |
26 May 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Gabe Newell, one of the best-known video game developers in the world, has said that the industry as a whole has a big problem about how it sets price points and has suggested that in the future gamers who are interested and fun to play with might be getting discounts while those who are jerks might have to pay more ... |
17 May 2011
19:51 GMT |
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Multiplayer-oriented Brink, from developer Splash Damage and publisher Bethesda Softworks, has managed to perform well during its first week on sale and has taken over the number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart.
Brink has not been well received by critics, who said that the game lacked a clear ... |
17 May 2011
03:23 GMT |
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The video game industry has managed to have a pretty good month in the United States during April, with the tracking firm NPD Group saying that the increase in overall sales versus the same period of 2010 amounts to 20 percent.
The industry has managed to sell goods valued at 961.2 million dollars during the month... |
13 May 2011
04:43 GMT |
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Valve has officially deployed the official mod and authoring tools for the PC version of Portal 2, allowing owners of the game to create their own puzzles for the recently released game.Not even a month has passed since the release of Portal 2 and Valve is already allowing the community access to a pretty big range o... |
11 May 2011
15:51 GMT |
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EA Sports, the sporting simulation division of publisher Electronic Arts, has officially confirmed that the upcoming FIFA 12 will be getting a special version of the newly released Nintendo 3DS handheld, taking advantage of its three-dimensional capabilities.The game will allow gamers to take control of players from ... |
11 May 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is an analyst for Wedbush Morgan and often comments on video game industry matters, has said that a slew of high-quality game launches will push the market forward for the month of April, which is expected to see an increase in overall sales for the first time since November 2010.
The analyst ... |
10 May 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Valve, the developer of hit games like Half Life, Left 4 Dead or Portal, has revealed through its CEO, Gabe Newell, that games in the future need to have a new type of single-player experience, as well as strive to deliver some sort of multiplayer one.
Portal 2, Valve's most recent game, arrived not just with... |
10 May 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Zumba Fitness, the video game that combines kilogram shredding routines and dancing, has managed to retake the number one position in the United Kingdom based video games chart, after spending last week in third position.
The 505 Games published exercise experience has proven quite popular in the last few months o... |
10 May 2011
03:47 GMT |
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With Portal 2 being one of the most successful Valve video game releases when it comes to critical reception, the developers who worked on it are now talking a little more about the choices they have made for the game and the reasons behind them.
A lot of people wondered whether Valve was making game main characte... |
9 May 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I’ve recently gone through a surgical intervention on one of my toes, followed up by almost a week of recovery, time during which I was pretty much forbidden to sit in an upright position.
This means that I have played less video games than I wished to and this weekend is my first opportun... |
6 May 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Portal 2 has just received a brand new patch on the PC and Mac platforms, which was released by Valve, its developer and publisher, through the Steam online digital distribution service.Portal 2 has been released for almost two weeks, and already Valve made a few updates to the game, solving some of the issues report... |
2 May 2011
15:51 GMT |
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The first piece of downloadable content for Portal 2 will bring lots of new things for the recently launched game including new levels, leaderboards and more.
Portal 2 has been released for almost two weeks now, and already Valve has announced that it will be releasing the "Portal 2 DLC #1" pack later this year.
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2 May 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Andrei Dobra: I might be going out of the city this weekend, but this doesn't mean that gaming will take a back seat to scenic strolls on the country side.Quite the opposite, as I'll no doubt squeeze in some Portal 2 before I head off and probably entertain myself with a few PopCap titles on my iPhone.First... |
29 April 2011
16:51 GMT |
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We highlighted the great Portal 2 single-player experience in the multiple gamer diaries released up until now, so it's time to talk about the brilliant cooperative mode included in the new title by Valve.
Like many gamers, when I first heard that Portal 2 will have a dedicated co-op mode, I thought that Valv... |
29 April 2011
08:40 GMT |
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Portal 2 will be on the receiving end of some new downloadable content this summer, at least according to its developer, Valve, which revealed that more details are set to appear next week.
Portal 2 has been out for over a week now, and Valve already wants to enhance the experience through a new batch of downloada... |
29 April 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Portal 2 continues to make headlines almost two weeks into its official release via Steam as the people at Valve Software have just revealed plans to roll out some new stuff to keep gamers busy through 2011.
Yes, read “downloadable content” or DLC in short, as the gamer community refers to these add-on... |
28 April 2011
09:53 GMT |
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We've talked about quite a lot of things in this Portal 2 diary series, from the great characters to the new puzzle elements or the developer commentary mode which lets players find out a bit more about how Portal 2 actually came to be.
We also need to point out just how funny Portal 2 can be, once again prov... |
28 April 2011
08:50 GMT |
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