Portal2 is out for preordering on steam now. -10% off now, and it’ll come out in April. You’ll also get a  free copy of the first Portal, but heck, who doesn’t have that game.

Valve announced no Portal 2 at E3 a few days ago or so, but I thought I already posted an article on it. Apparently the surprise is P2-themed, but the surprise is the fact that P2 gets delayed. Don’t worry, they’ll make it better. Cheers for the link, Odin.

Meanwhile, I’ve been making a small python script that reads your spray directory and cycles your active spray randomly from them. Okay, this may not have any real use to most of you but I felt like doing it. Might upload it later on as .exe and source if people ask for it.

EDIT: Oh, blog update. White earphones means nothing interesting will happen.

Jolly old Gabe Newell blurted out a bit of info on CVG recently regarding how he envisions a future game of theirs. Notice, he wasn’t referring to EP3.

“I feel like we’ve gotten away from genuinely scaring the player more than I’d like, and it’s something we need to think about, in addition to broadening the emotional palette we can draw on.”

I for one welcome our new pants-shitting overlords.

He’s the co-founder and head of one of the most influential game developers of all time and now Valve’s Gabe Newell is being honored for his many achievements. The Game Developers Choices Awards have announced that Newell will be the 2010 recipient of their Pioneer Award.

Newell, who becomes the third winner of the Pioneer Award, is being honored not just for his achievements in game development with the Half-Life series, the Left 4 Dead series and more but also with Valve’s creation of the Steam download service. He will receive the Pioneer Award at ceremonies at the the Game Developers Conference on March 11.

Good for him! He and everyone at Valve deserved it. Now maybe this will be a big incentive for Valve to say something about Episode 3. I believe congratulatory e-mails are in order.