Tag Archives: Portal 2

Best Xbox 360 games of all time

The best Xbox 360 games showcase just how many memorable and fantastic titles found a home on Microsoft’s console. To say the Xbox 360 was a huge success is no exaggeration. After first launching in 2005, the console went on to see close 90 million units, with an extensive library …

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6 games that do death differently

In games, nothing can be said to be certain except death and well, mostly that. Death as a consequence of failure has been a part of games since the days of Spacewar!, and what came after has stayed pretty much the same: a Game Over screen, a Continue? prompt (maybe …

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Valve reports seventh year of 100% sales growth on Steam

(opens in new tab) 2011 was another successful year for Valve, which announced today that its digital games distribution service Steam enjoyed its seventh year of over 100% sales growth. The announcement follows news of another milestone for the service, which hit a record peak of 5 million concurrent users …

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2011 Platinum Chalice Game of the Year nominees: Portal 2

This Friday, we kick off GamesRadar’s sixth officially annual Platinum Chalice awards, a celebration of the best of what the industry’s given us in 2011. In the run-up to the awards, we’re doing something a little different. Every day this week, we’ll reveal one of our five Game of the …

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TalkRadar UK Episode 93 – Back to basics

TalkRadar UK Fan Art GamesRadar hotline Right, here’s the deal… DO: Send us game related questions/trivia or a confession. Ensure that your text isn’t a small essay. DON’T: Send us chain texts, jokes or requests asking for a job. Got it? So with the serious crap out of the way, …

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PortalCraft mod brings Aperture Science technology to Minecraft

Extreme PortalCraft opens a blue portal in the original Portal, creates an orange portal within Minecraft, and drops all the key elements of the former into the latter while nobody’s looking. The central technology doesn’t suffer a bit from being downgraded into Minecraft’s 8-bit aesthetic, while sounds and gravity mechanics …

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