Portal Tetris

If you would like to play some portal tetris pay it here!

Personality Quiz!

Currently up on the Portal website they have up a personality quiz.  

So far the results i have seen are: 

Chell

Companion Cube

And Turret.  

The results you can get are: 

ATLAS

Cave Johnson

Chell

GLaDOS

P-body

Ratman

Turret

Wheatley

And Weighted Companion Cube.

Portal 2

Portal 2 is coming out on April 19^th.  This is the original trailer that they made.

This is the trailer that they made when they finally accepted pre-orders.

There is now a co-op option to the game.

Meet Wheatley.

Still Alive

The song Still Alive was written by Jonathan Coulton.  It is unusual for a video game to end in a song, this maybe why it became such a hit among the gaming community.  The song itself was also remixed for the game to play on the radio in the chamber when you first wake up.   Still Alive was featured in rock band and also audiosurf.  The song was performed by Ellen McLain.  Ellen was the voice of GLaDOS throughout the game.  She is a trained opera singer and was not sure if she would have the right style of singing for the song, but after she heard it she loved it.  People have played this song in any game or anything that has a way to play sounds in games.  There have been elementary schools that have sung this song at their shows.  If you can imagine it I am sure it has been done.  

Cake Recipie

The cake recipe is a very interesting one.  It starts out just how any recipe would start.  It is the garnishes that make you laugh and the fact that there is a cake core from GLaDOS that tell you the whole recipe.

The screen behind the Cake Core also has the recipe embedded into it.

Turrets

The Apture Science Sentry Gun is quite cute.  Apart from the fact that it wants you dead they always sound rather sweet.  They are strangely polite at all times. They idle, sleep, scan, and shoot.  They are the only other voice in the game that you hear aside from GLaDOS. 

They also dance sometimes.

GLaDOS

GLaDOS stands for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System.  She is a sentient computer.  It was on the day that she was first activated (which happened to coinside with the first Aperture Science bring your daughter to work day) that GLaDOS became self aware and locked down the facility.  The survivors trapped inside the Aperture Science facility made GLaDOS angry and she began to flood the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin.  The survivors fitted GLaDOS with a Morality core which quelled her rage.  Glados continued to test the survivors until all that was left was Chell. 

GLaDOS begins to show instability as you travel throughout the game.  She slowly becomes more and more emotional.  When Chell outsmarts GLaDOS by jumping off the platform before she gets burned alive that’s when GLaDOS’s true nature begins to be truly revealed. 

At the end of the game though it may seem that GLaDOS is destroyed it is really only a part of her that is destroyed.  It is there that the song Still Alive picks up.