Bored of waiting for the plush Companion Cube, a fellow by the name of Stephen ("Sargent" in the forum) has figured out how to make his own out of a Rubik's Cube:

Head on over to Live Granades (Slogan: "Like a blog, but explodier") for the full scoop.

Head over to the thread with the links to all the map downloads, and then cast your vote! You have one week to get to it.

Lots of our members here are getting in the spirit for Halloween. Check out this awesome costume:

Also, these two great carved pumpkins.

Now THAT'S thinking with portals!

Rock, Paper, Shotgun is at it again, this time with a chat with one of those wacky valve guys:

Quote:
Also, there is cake. Why's that?

Well, there are lots of message games coming out now. Like they've got something really important to get off their chest about the war in Iraq or the player is forced to make some dicey underwater moral choices. Really, just a whole heck of a lot of stuff to think about. With that in mind, at the beginning of the Portal development process, we sat down as a group to decide what philosopher or school of philosophy our game would be based on. That was followed by about fifteen minutes of silence and then someone mentioned that a lot of people like cake.

I was listening to a bit of Dragonforce while reading this, and the tempo of the music makes his frenetic commentary that much more absurd, err appropriate.

Update: RPS also interviewed two of the original folks who made Narbacular Drop and, of course, Portal.

Well it looks like the first bug of the new server has reared it's head. Apparantly the Signup emails have not been going out, I am guessing that the mail settings did not get setup right. We are working on getting this fixed ASAP. If you have registered within the past few days, try logging in as I have mass-enabled all of those account.

Sorry for the problems everyone!

EDIT Until it gets resolved, I have disabled email confirmation and manually activated all of the new accounts that have signed up within the last 4 days (when we moved servers).

EDIT Looks like we got it all resolved. Having sendmail actually installed helped!