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15 Jun 2007

Valve Confirms Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 & Portal Launch Dates

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PC - Portal - Valve Confirms Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 & Portal Launch Dates

Last night, Valve representatives confirmed to Shacknews that the studio's upcoming trio of Source-powered games will ship for all announced platforms on October 9, 2007. The suite, sold at retail and through Valve's Steam download service, will consist of the shooter sequel Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the team-based multiplayer game Team Fortress 2, and the action/puzzle game Portal. Valve is handling development of the games on PC and Xbox 360, with EA UK's Chertsey, Surrey office bringing the titles to PlayStation 3.
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14 Mar 2007

Portal only four hours long

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PC - Portal - Portal only four hours long

It won't take forever to finish Valve's Portal, reckons level designer Kim Swift, who guided us through a playable demo of the game at last week's Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.

"Currently the game runs about four hours," she told us.
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9 Mar 2007

Valve's Kim Swift talks about designing Portal

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PC - Portal - Valve's Kim Swift talks about designing Portal

Valve's Kim Swift, one of the designers of Portal, talked about the challenges of creating a first-person mind-screw puzzler, which is packaged with the oft-delayed Half-Life: :Episode 2, Black, and Orange sets, and concluded with a video demonstration solving one of Portal's crazy door-opening puzzles.
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28 Sep 2006

Half-Life 2 and Portal shots

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The fresh Half-Life 2: Episode Two images just have us foaming at the mouth again in anticipation of the eagerly awaited second installment in Gordon Freeman's episodic adventures. Click here [PC, 360, PS3] to see them all. We've also got new screens of Portal [PC, 360, PS3], and we can't stress enough how amazing this subgame is going to be when it comes packaged with Half-Life 2: Episode Two on PC and next-gen machines next March-ish. Of course, if you've already seen the trailer [PC, 360, ... » Read More

19 Jul 2006

Break on through

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Last week at EA's press event, Valve captain Gabe Newell announced an enigmatic, first-person physics puzzler called Portal. You are gifted with a handheld tool that combines Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun with the power to shoot "portals" in any surface. You'll be tasked with finding routes across seemingly impassable obstacles and obtaining unreachable items with this new toy. Yesterday, a low-res version of the Portal training video/teaser we saw at the event was leaked via YouTube ... » Read More