Portal

Valve has launched the official website for Half-life 2: Orange Pack, which I hope we'll see a lot of at E3. It seems to be on track for the October release, and inside you'll find a lot of (low-res) images, both new and old ones in a big mess.

Valve released these images together with all the other ones from X06 yesterday, but they captured these images from the exact same places as their old images - so it completely fooled us into thinking that they were old. Here they are anyway, a day late, but they actually seem to be the first images from the console versions (not confirmed yet).

The very much awaited Portal was of course part of the Valve games presentation, with this very nice gameplay sequence on display.

Valve just released this first trailer of Portal, their very experimental first person puzzle game announced with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Half Life 2/Team Fortress 2. Clearly Prey gave the Valve developers some very nice ideas about how use this cool technology.

Valve just announced that PS3 and 360 ports of Half-Life 2 are to be released next-year, in a big pack containing the game as well as the two "Episodes", Portal (a solo game featuring experimental gameplay) and... <span class="jeuliee"><a href="game_1106_en.html">Team Fortress 2</a></span>. Yep, THE <span class="jeuliee"><a href="game_1106_en.html">Team Fortress 2</a></span>. With its shaders-filled cartoony look, the game seems pretty far from what it used to be when it was still using the Quake Engine... And I must say I'm totally seduced. Are you ?