Portal 2 DLC Coming This Summer

Doug Lombardi, Vice-President of Marketing at Valve announced during a recent interview that DLC for Portal 2 will be coming as of this Summer (US Summer).

“We will be announcing some DLC for it, so folks can keep a look out for more content coming this summer.” – Doug Lombardi

During the interview Doug mentioned that more information on the DLC Content will be available in the next week or so, and would be supported with more videos and comics.

Source: Fast Company

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Portal 2 Robot Enrichment

Much like Valves FPS Team Fortress 2 where you can customize your payload and purchase items from the Mann Co Store, Portal 2 comes with the Robot Enrichment – which will allow you to customize the look of your bot for Co-Op play.

Items such as Hats, Skins, Gestures and other miscellaneous items such as Flags can be purchased from the store to equip on your bot.

Items start at $0.99 USD and go up to around $10.00 USD.

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Portal 2 Now Available

Gamers who played the 13 indie games which were part of the The Potato Sack Pack have helped unlock Portal 2 hours ahead of its release in the US.

For those who helped out during the early unlocking of Portal 2 and managed to find and obtain all 36 Potatoes hidden throughout the indie games Valve have awarded them a Golden Potato Award – and the entire Valve Collection which includes the newly released Portal 2.

If you haven’t purchased your copy of Portal 2 you can head over to the Steam Store and pick up a copy for $49.99 USD.

Source: Steam

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Portal 2 Early Unlock

Portal 2 is set to unlock in just over an hour after 10 of the 13 indie games have ‘completed’ the calculations required to reboot the Glados@Home system earlier than expected.

In addition to the indie games reducing the timer on the countdown, the timer will now also be further reduced by the amount of potatoes earned in the indie games by players.

Source: Glados@Home

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Team Fortress 2: Japan Relief Aid Update

According to the official Team Fortress 2 Blog, gamers have raised a total of $300,000 for the Japan Relief Aid from in-game purchases.

“Wow. Seriously, people, WOW. We knew you had it in you, but we’re still amazed you’ve raised over $300,000 so far.

Take a BOW, TF2 community — because that is an incredible, frankly astounding, amount of money from a dedicated number of gamers, to one heck of a lot of people in some real need right now. Anytime someone gives you guff about something negative in gaming, you go ahead and point them to this post, because here’s some late-breaking damn news: they are wrong and gamers are generous and awesome.”

If you want to grab a new item in-game, and at the same time donate towards the TF2 Japan Relief Aid, the following items are still available in the Mann Co. Store:

• Humanitarian’s Hachimaki – $7.99 USD
• Benefactor’s Kanmuri – $19.99 USD
• Magnanimous Monarch – $99.99 USD

These items will be available for purchase until April 6th, 2011.

Source: Team Fortress 2 Blog

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Left 4 Dead 2 – Cold Stream DLC Beta

The other day Valve released the beta version of “Cold Stream” for testing to Left 4 Dead 2 owners. Cold Stream is part of an upcoming DLC for Left 4 Dead 2 which will be available for PC, Mac and Xbox360.

Valve have also enabled the in-game bug reporter so if you do come across any issues with the maps you can report them via the in-game tool.

Cold Stream was created by Matthew Lourdelet and will be part of the upcoming DLC that will contain three campaigns from the original Left 4 Dead: Death Tool, Dead Air and Blood Harvest.

The DLC isn’t scheduled for released until after Portal 2′s release.

Source: Left4Dead2 Blog

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Portal 2: TV-Spot Trailer

Valve released Portal 2′s first TV-Spot Commercial on Friday, which was developed completely in-house.

The TV-Spot Features GLaDOS and introduces the Robots to the Portal Gun.

You can either click on the picture above to watch the video from YouTube, or you can download it from the 3FL Mirror.

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Team Fortress 2 Update – Shogun 2 Tie-In

New Hats and Weapons have been added to Team Fortress 2 today in an update released by Valve.

They come part of the Team Fortress 2 – Total War: Shogun 2 tie-in which unlike other promotions where you had to pre-purchasepurchase the tie-in game, you are presented with a few options to acquire these items;

• Pre-Order Total War: Shogun 2 from Steam to receive all 8 items.
• Buy all eight items from the Mann Co. Store.
• Collect all items from in-game drops or crafting.

The items which have been added to the game are;

Hats

• The Dread Knot – a samurai topknot for the Heavy
• The Samur-Eye – a kabuto helmet for the Demo Man
• The Geisha Boy – a geisha hairdo for the Medic
• The Noh Mercy – a terrifying oni mask for the Spy

Weapons

• The Half-Zatoichi – a Level 5 Katana for the Demo Man and Soldier
• The Concheror – a Level 5 Sashimono for the Soldier
• Conniver’s Kunai – a Level 1 Kunai for the Spy
• The Fan O’war – a Level 5 Gunbai for the Scout

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Valve Looking At New Anti-Account Theft Solution

Valve announced a new feature today for Steam and Steamworks called Steam Guard.

Steam Guard will allow users to link their accounts to a specific PC. Any attempts to modify or change account settings by any other PC will not be possible without the user’s approval.

Steam Guard will take advantage of upcoming technology from Intel called Identity Protection Technology (IPT).

“Account phishing and hijacking are our #1 support issues, with Intel’s IPT and Steam Guard, we’ve taken a big step towards giving customers the account security they need as they purchase more and more digital goods.” – Gabe Newell, President of Valve

Steam Guard will be available to third parties to integrate through Steamworks.

Source: Valve Press Release & Joystiq

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Portal 2 Now Available To Pre-Order

Valve announced last night that outlets worldwide (Retailers and Steam) are now accepting pre-orders for Portal 2, the sequel which picked up “Most Anticipated Game of 2011″ at the Spike TV Video Game Awards.

Special pre-order offers vary at participating outlets around the world and include a variety of dollars off, or exclusive in-game content for those who pre-order before it is released the week of April 18.

You can currently pre-order Portal 2 through EB Games ($108.00), JB HIFI ($TBC), Game ($TBC) and online through Steam (US$44.99).

Pre-ordering your copy through Steam will get you 10% off the game and will also receive a free copy of Portal.

Portal 2 will be available for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC and Mac on April 21st, 2011.

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