Valve announces $60 DLC for Portal 2

[CptStern]

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Buoyed by popularity of free Portal 2 ARG, Valve announces $60 DLC

With the Portal 2 ARG burning up video gaming forums around the world, Valve announced today that they would be releasing an add-on DLC further exploring the world of Aperture Science.

"We were so excited about the tremendous positive response to the Portal 2 ARG," said Gabe Newell, founder of Valve Software, by phone. "It was originally a side-project to get Eric Wolpaw to go away, but it quickly bloomed into a multi-studio epic at about the same time that he stole my rolodex."

"We asked ourselves, 'How can we actually make some money off of this thing?' And after it turned out that gamers won't buy hats in ARGs, we started making a traditional FPS."

"From the beginning, we knew we were going a 'very special episode' route with this sequel," admits Doug Lombardi. "All your favorites from the first game—Chell and GLaDOS—are returning along with some wacky new friends and celebrity appearances! I'm not saying that there will be a Mike Tyson cameo... but there might be a hangover, if you know what I mean. Write 'Doug Lombardi winks' after that."

Chet Faliszek joined Wolpaw to write the dialog, and said writing a sequel was a different kind of challenge. "As it turns out, thirteen-thousand lines of dialog are easy to write with my best friends 'Thesaurus' and 'Alternate Takes.' And they're even easy to justify when my thesaurus is named 'Jay Pinkerton' in HR's database. And draws his own paycheck."

Eric Wolpaw was unavailable for comment, instead staring mutely from behind a glass door and frantically gesturing at the deadlock. Portal 2 will be released April 19th on Steam and in retail outlets everywhere.

hahaha

 

[Maestro]

Oh Valve, you so crazy!

 

[ríomhaire]

That was almost as good as the Robin firing everyone and making of Meet the Sandvich blog posts.

 

[MJ12]

I don't get it.

 

[Stigmata]

Valve is either master troll and won't release this, or is ultimate troll and will.

 

[Lucid]

@stig, zt is funy cuz they r talkin about releasin portal 2 itself xd

 

[morgs]

I don't get it.

The 'DLC' in this case, is Portal 2 itself, as DLC for the ARG.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I was kinda hoping I could kill Mantis Men, it sucks to be me

 

[Gargantou]

What is this ARG? I've completely not kept up with Portal 2 info.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

What is this ARG? I've completely not kept up with Portal 2 info.

chell became a pirate

 

[Eejit]

@stig, zt is funy cuz they r talkin about releasin portal 2 itself xd

Screw you. Narrowedeyesfry don't need no caption shit.

 

[Gargantou]

chell became a pirate

Who is chell? I am completely clueless as to what you are talking about, Sally.

 

[taviow]

Who is chell?

 

[Gargantou]

Oh, I see.

Now I feel embarrassed for not knowing the name of a lead character in a Valve game.

 

[Bad^Hat]

They don't really advertise it that much in-game.