Delayed till 2011, folks:
Aperture Science, doing business as Aperture Laboratories LLC, in partnership with Valve today announced the successful completion of an ethics-review-panel-supervised release date restructuring process. Portal 2, the sequel to the ground-breaking title that earned over 30 Game of the Year awards despite missing its original ship date, is now targeted for a 2011 release.
Representatives from both companies acknowledged that public safety concerns factored into the decision. They went on to say that even though Portal 2 will arrive slightly later than planned, all life on earth won’t instantaneously stop as every molecule in your body explodes at the speed of light, which is what would happen should a rip ever appear in the fabric of Valve Time.
“Also, the game will be even better,” they added, missing an historic opportunity to create the first product delay press release to mention that a product is being delayed to make it worse.
By jolly, Apple might even update their hardware by then!
Damn, I was really counting on this one, it’s been sometime since a decent game hit the shelves, I really can’t find anything to play recently…
Wow ….
Valve resorting to bullshit PR tactics to hype an *already* probably overhyped game ….
Who’da thunk it?
It’s PR, but at least it’s in the humor of the original Portal, which makes this move a little more palatable.
“… makes it more palatab;e ….’
‘@ winos walk into a hardwarestore — by the way, Mr. Marsh, your wife & daughter whre both killed in an autoaccident!”
Dos that make it “more palatable” ?