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In this season of gifting, returning and exchanging, retailers are offering post-holiday sales in order to step up consumer spending. But the very best game deals you’re going to find this week aren’t at your typical retail store - they’re on the already reasonable Steam, and my lord, they’re good. Continue Reading »

Microsoft’s official limit for games on Xbox Live Arcade: 350MB. Portal: Still Alive’s actual size: 629MB. The limit breaking (ha!) comes from a report via Joystiq where, as they point out, “the previously announced 350 MB limit has just been kicked in the teeth.” As of yet, there is no… Continue Reading »

Reports last month of additional content to paradigm-busting, platitude-eliciting puzzler Portal were heart-stopping revelations for die-hards Valve fans. But, according to Continue Reading »

Portal fans may remember that GLaDOS dictated directions to the player at all times. GLaDOS was, of course, evil and misleading, but the haunting voice was somewhat mesmerizing. You can now have GLaDOS order you around in your daily life as well, thanks to the GLaGPS created by Ryan VanMiddlesworth. … Continue Reading »

A day with new Portal related news is a good day. The Valve Store website has finally restocked its stuffed companion cubes. Previously, when the Valve Store first carried stuffed companion cubes back in December, the items sold out nearly immediately. Kotaku reported that the entire stock of stuffed toys… Continue Reading »

If you’re a gamer and you haven’t grabbed your copy of Valve Software’s The Orange Box, which featured GDC 2008 winner for game of the year, Portal, then what is keeping you?  Maybe five games for the price of one just don’t seem right in your mind. Well now, Valve… Continue Reading »

One of the best online multiplayer games of 2007 is going to get a whole lot better with Valve’s recent updates to Team Fortress 2 for the Xbox 360. Five after its release, Valve is releasing a free downloadable update to Team Fortress 2, fixing a number of the game’s… Continue Reading »

Regardless of how you feel about most award ceremonies, you have to respect the Game Developers Choice Awards, in which actual working professionals (read: people who really know their stuff) pick the best and brightest games, ideas, and people of the past year. At this year’s eighth iteration of the… Continue Reading »

Cake is yummy. Cake shaped like a companion cube from Portal is yummy and funny. An Ars Technica forum user by the name of Neko posted a picture today (February 9, 2008) of a most excellent cake. This cake is not a lie, it is moist and it will be… Continue Reading »

Electronic Arts has revealed that it intends to release the PC versions of The Orange Box‘s exclusive titles (Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 and Portal) as separate titles before March 31, 2008, the last day of EA’s fiscal year.  This is in addition to Half-Life 2 and Half-Life… Continue Reading »