Portal: No Escape

[Eric]

Very good Portal fan film:

Portal: No Escape

[Eric]

Get Portal for free now through 09/20.

[Eric]

http://riptapparel.com is similar to Teefury.  Their shirt du jour is a tribute to the flappy-headed Portal players out there:

[Eric]

Creative Portal live-action play:

Portal (Ninja of the Night Chell) - Fanime 2011 Masquerade

[Spooky]

 

The guy who Directed Portal signed a deal to direct Crime Of Century.

Portal Director Plans Crime Of Century

Back in August, commercials director Dan Trachtenberg turned some heads (about seven million of them) with his impressive YouTube-posted short based on Valve's Portal videogames. If it was intended as a calling-card, it worked, since Trachtenberg has just been "attached" by Universal to Crime of the Century.

Portal: No Escape was, as you'd expect, heavy on the slick sci-fi visuals (there was no cake, but then the cake is a lie), and it seems that we can expect something stylistically similar from Crime of the Century. Deadline describe it as "a high-octane heist thriller with a science-fiction twist".

Given that the film will be produced by Fast 5 and Wanted writer Chris Morgan, "high octane" sounds about right. Morgan is currently the golden boy at Universal, with a two-year first-look deal. Crime of the Century is currently only at the pitch stage, but the studio were obviously keen on what they heard. It will actually be written by Daniel Kunka (Twelve Rounds) though, since Morgan is somewhat busy preparing Fast & Furious 6 (hooray!). The sign of a good manager is knowing when to delegate...

Owen Williams

http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=32216

[Eric]

Could have sworn I had posted my review of Portal, but I guess I'd forgotten.

After getting the first game for free (see above), I had played for a while then lost interest.  I think the loss of interest stemmed from a video which made it sound like later levels would be "twitchy" -- meaning there'd be a lot of key and mouse clicking and if you didn't time it just right, it'd end up a frustrating mess. 

Months later, I tried it again -- and fell in love.  Sure the puzzle aspect is pretty neat, but the story ends up being classic sci-fi.  There's a few parts that came close to "twitchy", but nothing horrible.  I liked it enough to buy and finish Portal II; another very worthy game.

Really well-done mashup (filk?) of Portal and "This is Halloween": 
Portal 2 - This Is Aperture

[Eric]

This is actually a Skyrim mod, but the subject comes from Portal 2:

Skyrim: Fall of the Space Core, Vol. 1

[Spooky]

This Mod is the bane of /Skyrim on Reddit. To many posts with video of the exact same thing!

I guess you can forge a helmet from it.

[TinkTanker]

My contribution:

[Eric]

You'd think a video of four guys trying to play Mari0, a mash-up version of SuperMario Brothers and Portal with four player co-op and portals, would be pretty boring. In fact, it's pretty hi-larious: 

Let's Play Mari0 With Geoff, Gavin, Michael, & Ryan