This is probably the most unique and creative cover ever made of this song. It’s different (very different) but totally worth a listen!
I wish I had a portal gun too!
Portal. Is. Free.
Now those of you who have never played have absolutely no excuse to avoid playing this incredible game by Valve.
Go pick it up. Play it. Enjoy it. Love it.
I salute you, sir.
Professor Michael Abbott of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana has made a breakthrough in the classroom. He’s the first professor to get video games approved as viable material for classroom use (unless you’re majoring in video games, obviously).
His course is called “Enduring Questions”—
“This is a course about what it means to be human, focused on some of the enduring questions our existence inevitably raises for us. The goals of this course reflect this focus.”
If I wasn’t already majoring in video games, man…would I be jealous! Professor Abbott picked one of my favorite video games of all time to use: Portal.
“I wanted to provoke the students with some ideas and I wanted it to be a very well-designed game.”
To read more about Professor Abbott’s adventure in getting the game approved and introducing it to his students, go read the article over at GiantBomb.com
Source: giantbomb.com
Flaming Lemonade, Anyone?
Cave Johnson’s Flaming Lemonade (Portal 2 Cocktail) Ingredients: Directions: Cut a lemon wheel and soak it in grain alcohol while you make the drink. Mix the lemonade and limoncello into a tall glass, then float a splash of grain alcohol on top of the drink. Place the lemon wheel on the rim of the glass and ignite the top. Admire your delicious weapon, then extinguish and drink. (Cocktail created and photographed by the Insatiable Geek.)
10 oz. lemonade
2 oz. limoncello
1 splash Everclear (or other grain alcohol)
1 grain alcohol-soaked lemon wheel
“I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!” -Cave Johnson
(via thegossipgamer)
Portal: No Escape
Holy shit.
Portal 2's Creators On Crafting Games Through Experiential Stories
Be warned: If you haven’t played the game, this article might spoil a few things for you.
That being said, here’s a nifty article on how Valve went about perfecting the formula for Portal 2. They look at stylistic choices, decision making in regards to the puzzles, and trimming and perfecting the cast among other things. However, I think the best bit is at the bottom:
Q: There is a comic online, but beyond that, is there more Portal coming?
A: We will be announcing some DLC for it, so folks can keep a look out for more content coming this summer. We’ll be putting more details out about that in a week or so. We’ll support that with more videos or more comics.
Source: Fast Company
Portal 2 Is How Sequels Should Be Made
These days when a sequel comes out to a popular game, you can expect change to try and get new fans. Titles like Dragon Age II change up the gameplay so much that fans of the original no longer enjoy it. Game sequels used to have the same basic mechanics with a new story and more content. They were made for the existing fans. Today, Portal 2 sticks with the old formula, keeps the great gameplay of Portal, and adds enough new content to make it a sequel worth buying.
Portal 2 was so awesome— Valve got it right. It’s a shame more developers don’t think like this.
Source: bitmob.com
Oh, the lulz to be had if more games had a portal gun….
I’m in SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE.
FOUR FORTY TWO IN THE MORNING, AND I FINISHED PORTAL 2.
Game. So good. Reaction in the morning? I think so.
Goodnight, world.
