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GDC08: Live from the Portal postmortem
Filed under: GDC 3:36pm PT: After waiting in what can only be described as an epic line (by far the longest we've seen at GDC so far, and it's Friday afternoon!), we've found a respectable spot at the...
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GDC Quest Quiz IV: Erik Wolpaw
Filed under: Culture, Adventure, GDCWe did a terrible thing at last week's Game Developer's Conference. Aside from our usual barrage of photographs and "reporting," a select group of attendees had to...
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Valve explains why Portal's Companion Cube had to die
When we cursed the heavens and asked tearfully why our beloved labradoodle, Cagney, had to die in a horrific snow plow accident, leaving behind her best friend (our maltipoo Lacey), the only answer we...
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Video Interview: Portal 2's Erik Wolpaw
Although Portal was just a simple story of a girl and her cake, it was one of the most memorable gaming experiences of the generation thus far. Its sequel goes into more ambitious territory, and we...
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Portal 2's (canceled) competitive multiplayer detailed
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture The biggest addition to Portal 2 is arguably the new two-player co-op campaign. But did you know that Valve was also working on competitive...
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Portal 2's wall-walking gel would have made you sick
Portal 2's combination of slippery, bouncy, and portal-enabling gel was more than enough to keep our brains confounded during our second rendezvous at Aperture Science, but apparently yet another gel...
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NYC: Portal 2 writer Erik Wolpaw speaking at NYU Game Center
You know that wonderful, memorable, hilarious experience you just had with Portal 2? Wouldn't you like to shake the hand of the dude who helped shape that excellent narrative arc? Well, we can't...
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Watch Valve's Erik Wolpaw lecture on Portal 2 development, nixed ideas
If you missed Valve writer Erik Wolpaw's talk on Portal 2 at New York University's Game Center lecture series event last Thursday, don't worry -- we've got you covered. NYU has uploaded the entirety...
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The importance of playtesting: What Portal 2 could have been
When Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek first sat down to write Portal 2, they went mad. It certainly appears that way now, when the final version of Portal 2 that shipped in 2011 was such a resounding...
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Watch a live stream of Joystiq's PAX panel with Erik Wolpaw, Tim Schafer,...
Joystiq's Ben Gilbert is sitting down with Valve's Erik Wolpaw (writer on the Portal series), Double Fine's Tim Schafer (company president and fundraising maven) and Kotaku's Jason Shreier at PAX...
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How Cave Johnson's talking head got cut from Portal 2
Cave Johnson, the eccentric, unstable president of Aperture Science, was going to have a more purposeful role in Portal 2, writer Erik Wolpaw said during the Plot vs. Play panel (co-hosted by...
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GDC08: Live from the Portal postmortem
3:36pm PT: After waiting in what can only be described as an epic line (by far the longest we've seen at GDC so far, and it's Friday afternoon!), we've found a respectable spot at the Portal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
GDC Quest Quiz IV: Erik Wolpaw
We did a terrible thing at last week's Game Developer's Conference. Aside from our usual barrage of photographs and "reporting," a select group of attendees had to endure a particularly inane and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Valve explains why Portal's Companion Cube had to die
When we cursed the heavens and asked tearfully why our beloved labradoodle, Cagney, had to die in a horrific snow plow accident, leaving behind her best friend (our maltipoo Lacey), the only answer we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video Interview: Portal 2's Erik Wolpaw
Although Portal was just a simple story of a girl and her cake, it was one of the most memorable gaming experiences of the generation thus far. Its sequel goes into more ambitious territory, and we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Portal 2's (canceled) competitive multiplayer detailed
The biggest addition to Portal 2 is arguably the new two-player co-op campaign. But did you know that Valve was also working on competitive multiplayer? Valve's Erik Wolpaw told 1UP that they "had...
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Portal 2's wall-walking gel would have made you sick
Portal 2's combination of slippery, bouncy, and portal-enabling gel was more than enough to keep our brains confounded during our second rendezvous at Aperture Science, but apparently yet another gel...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NYC: Portal 2 writer Erik Wolpaw speaking at NYU Game Center
You know that wonderful, memorable, hilarious experience you just had with Portal 2? Wouldn't you like to shake the hand of the dude who helped shape that excellent narrative arc? Well, we can't...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Watch Valve's Erik Wolpaw lecture on Portal 2 development, nixed ideas
If you missed Valve writer Erik Wolpaw's talk on Portal 2 at New York University's Game Center lecture series event last Thursday, don't worry -- we've got you covered. NYU has uploaded the entirety...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The importance of playtesting: What Portal 2 could have been
When Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek first sat down to write Portal 2, they went mad. It certainly appears that way now, when the final version of Portal 2 that shipped in 2011 was such a resounding...
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