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It's a bit more than an expansion, it's in a half-way house between expansion and new game. There's new technology, new art, new enemies, etc. If you don't care about Portal, then there's something wrong with you. Just have some patience. Bioshock is coming out at the end of the month, and...

The Combine portals can punch stuff through from their universe, but they can't open portals from one area of the same universe to another. I'd guess that the reason they use Citadels in the first place is because of that limitation in their technology. They need to punch through everything...

I need that Citadel concept in high-res like I need air.

Urgh. That video reminds me why I'm looking forward to TF2 and not FF.

Heh, only 1% of people ready for DX10? You can almost hear the Valve guys pushing implementing DX10 to the back of their minds...

Yeh, part of the SSA stipulates that you can only use the SDK for non-commercial purposes unless you get Valve's say-so.

Kinda amusing how this is probably the first release where it's coming out in America last!

Here's to the future. Wonder when we'll hear more about the Steam Community? That's the biggest new Steam feature I see on the horizon.

They have been busy. Wonder when this is going to roll out / wonder when we'll get screenshots.

Did you say run? As in, run on foot?! That must have taken forever!

I can't believe I missed the GIANT SUCKING PORTAL in the first screenshot the first time I looked at it. The hunters look amazing too - the greenish effect and the subtle reflectivity of their armour looks amazing. Also the story info sounds... interesting. The G-Man's back, and he's going to...

Although concing is out, the Scout can now double-jump. It sounds like rather than making the game fast-paced by using a bunch of fairly unintentional tricks, the Scout class will just be faster than the others. I'm sure they've got the balance sorted. I guess the plan for taking out an SG is...

They're going to complain it's the end of CS as we know it, everyone will leave, etc. etc. They do the same thing every single update. Can you remember the outcry when CS1.6 was released? That was wild, that one. Now it's the great old version to go back to and sit and be nostalgic. What I...

The really fool-proof guide is to have a look on the box and see what you'll get. You should at least get HL2, Lost Coast, CS:S and HL2DM. I wouldn't count on you getting DoD:S, though.

Wow. *puts on asbestos suit* Anyways... I'd say it's not that big a challenge to implement. You have the usual problems of performance and making it scale up, but otherwise there aren't too many really tricky problems. The hardest one is making sure that stats data or the like isn't...

I think we pretty much knew that before. Sounds like you start with fixed portals in the world, then you get the portal gun that can place one portal with the other being fixed, and then you get control of both portals. Perfectly balanced portal training. If you've listened to the Ep One...

I think that means you need JIT enabled if you're debugging it. Which isn't really for you, it's for Valve to fix bugs. Looks like that backup is knackered. Unlucky.

I think they accept it as a practice if it's applicable. Like he said, having it in Half-Life would stupid, it doesn't fit. But having a sports game with real adverts along the sidelines rather than fake ones seems ok.

Playing HL on Steam these days is really breathtaking. It's amazing. Because the Half-Life assets are so small, the download goes about as fast as you play. Seriously, it's like 30 seconds from clicking "Install" to staring at the main menu. You can start playing pretty much straight away...

I'm amazed Marc said Portal actually solved problems for them in the HL universe's story. I would have thought it would have caused all kinds of problems. How deep does this story go??