I guess it was inevitable, but our favorite song will soon be available for download for Rock Band. No info on the price but probably the same as other single songs.

Our man Jonathan Coulton recently played it live, check out the video here: http://vimeo.com/722062

Now all I need is a 360, Rock Band, and the desire to play it!

Portal just won Game of the Year, Best Game Design, and the 2007 Innovation Award at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco tonight! I am so happy!

Or as Gabe Newell said at the podium:

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Orange Box puzzle game?
Digipen students are smart.
The cake is a lie.

More here.

Congradulations to Duffedwaffe for his winning map, Rainbow Palace! Spend your $50 NewEgg gift card wisely!

Stay tuned for our next contest coming soon in March, hopefully we'll be giving away a brand new Nvidia or ATI video card as prize!

Thanks to Blink for posting about this over at Interlopers.net!

The January Mapping Contest has come to an end and we have several excellent maps that our community has created. The theme for this month's contest is Design Challenge in Aperture Laboratories / Test Chambers. In addition to the standard prizes, the winner will also receive a $50 gift card to NewEgg.com!

Click here to go to the voting thread. Remember, you must register on the forums before you can vote!

Good luck to the best mapper.

Win.

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In what will surely come as a surprise to absolutely no-one, Valve has confirmed that it has definite plans for more Portal.

Valve spokesman Doug Lombardi said the company would be pursuing the Portal phenomenon, and that it planned to add significantly more to the game that simply "a bunch of new puzzles." Speaking to Eurogamer, Lombardi said, "There'll be more Portal, for sure. But the details of that, to be honest, we're still working out."

"The only smart thing we did for Portal was to hire those seven kids and give them the support they needed to make the game," he added.

Typically for Valve, Lombardi wouldn't comment on any sort of potential release date of either Portal or the next chapter in the Half-Life 2 story. "With Episode Three we want to live up to the promise of where we are taking things to; there's a lot of working being done to make sure we deliver on that promise," he said.

Portal, a short puzzle game that was released in 2007 as part of Valve's Orange Box, became an instant sensation for its unique gameplay, closing credits song and the Weighted Companion Cubes. Despite its brevity, the game has garnered a Metacritic score of 90, and is the first and apparently only game to ever receive no criticism whatsoever in Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's Zero Punctuation.

Source: The Escapist Magazine