Portal 2 Soundtrack

Valve is giving away the Portal 2 soundtrack on the Portal website. You should go get it, for science.

Portal 2 Soundtrack

Portal 2

We're looking to upgrade the Magistra's MacBook to 10.5 because 10.4 cannot run the recently announced Steam games for Mac. As part of the announcement, Portal was free for a couple of weeks, so I decided to boot up Portal and play it again. Portal was indeed a masterpiece, and the Magistra loved it. It is one of the few FPS games she has ever played.

Turns out Valve updated Portal with new goodies, including a new scene in the ending, and added in some hints for Portal 2 via a new achievement, Transmission Achieved. There were radios scattered around in Portal that all played this upbeat little ditty, but now there are many more, and if you take the radios to special places in each level, it plays a message, sometimes in Morse code, sometimes via fax protocol, and so on. From all this, people decoded a BBS number, and using a login/password that was encoded in the Portal 2 announcement, you could login and download more documents from Aperature Science.

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Valve Moved

While looking for information on Portal 2, I found out that Valve moved. I was able to tour Valve Software a couple of years ago, but due to their success, they outgrew that location and moved to a bigger studio.

Gameinformer has a video that shows the old and the new digs. From the pictures, it looks like a pretty nice place.