Portal 2 DLC, New Soundtrack, New Spotlight and More!

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msleeper
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Posted Sep 30, 2011
Portal 2's first DLC has been confirmed to be released October 4th! The DLC includes a new Co-op campaign, as well as Challenge Mode and leaderboards! Here is the full press release, news via Rock, Paper, Shotgun:

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FREE PORTAL 2 DLC SHIPPING OCTOBER 4th
"Portal 2: Peer Review" Available on PC, Mac, PS3 and Xbox 360

September 29, 2011 -- Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the free DLC update for its bestselling game franchise Portal 2 will be rolled out across all regions on Steam, Xbox LIVE and PSN starting October 4th. The free DLC, titled "Portal 2: Peer Review", is available to all owners of Portal 2 for download on PS3 and Xbox 360, and will be automatically downloaded via Steam on PC and Mac.

In "Peer Review", you and a friend will continue the story of loyal bots P-Body and Atlas as you puzzle your way through a mysterious new co-op test track and once again match wits with GLaDOS. The DLC also features a single player and co-op Challenge Mode, and leaderboards to compare Challenge Mode scores with friends and the Portal community.

Also, the third installment of the Portal 2 soundtrack is available on the official Portal 2 site. Volume 3 includes songs from the last act of Portal 2 including "Want You Gone", as well as more music from the Co-op campaign. Check it out now!

We also have put up a new Community Spotlight, highlighting of all things one of the best Portal 1 maps Try Anything Twice by long time community contributor, HMW. Install Portal 1 if you don't have it already (you did get it when it was free, right?) and give it a play!

Lastly, there is an amazing 20 minute long Aperture fan video that showed up on Youtube yesterday. This was really well done and is a lot of fun to watch. Here it is:

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rellikpd
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Posted Sep 30, 2011
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"Will be released this summer..."
Oh well 11 days late and making me wait almost 6 months for challenges blows.... but at least it's FINALLY coming.
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MasterLagger
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Posted Sep 30, 2011
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Well, I still think that Valve should have mentioned this a couple weeks earlier. But at least we heard something.
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RubyCarbuncIe
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Posted Sep 30, 2011
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The 4th cannot get here fast enough.
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yohoat9
274 Posts
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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No new sp content... whyyyyyy
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Will T.
163 Posts
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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'Bout time they finished up that soundtrack. This is the first time Valve has ever released anything with a "3" in the name...!

A little disappointed that there don't appear to be new SP maps, but a new co-op campaign will be fun if I can get my co-op partner into a game ... we both have heavy school right now, so timing is a bit of an issue. Still, a reason to get back into it!

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Codename
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Posted Sep 30, 2011
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I can't wait to review this for ASEMBLE. It's going to be so awesome!!!

Edit: Just read the Turret Lullaby comic. Amazing and absolutely hilarious. Another thing to talk about on ASEMBLE. Can't wait

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spongylover123
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Posted Sep 30, 2011
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There's a new turret comic also
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msleeper
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Posted Sep 30, 2011
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spongylover123 wrote:
There's a new turret comic also

Link?

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spongylover123
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Posted Sep 30, 2011
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msleeper wrote:
spongylover123 wrote:

There's a new turret comic also

Link?

http://www.thinkwithportals.com/turret_comic/

Look for a red spot in the music page.

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thomars.dm
101 Posts
Posted Oct 01, 2011
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Yay fn this is
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RubbishyUsername
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Posted Oct 01, 2011
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Hang on - everyone is saying 4th of October, but the thinkwithportals site says "next Wednesday" - which is the 5th. Which is it?
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MrLate
159 Posts
Posted Oct 01, 2011
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Yep, Wednesday is 5th... I trust the blog more.
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MasterLagger
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Posted Oct 01, 2011
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I read the Turret Lullaby comic.
No scientist wants to deactivate a turret.
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reepblue
894 Posts
Posted Oct 01, 2011
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I hope everyone is enjoying their summer vacation. [/sarcasm]

I can't wait to play it, although it does not look like theres anything BRAND new that SP is getting compared to MP.

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barb1973
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Posted Oct 02, 2011
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Valve! Take this to Steam collection! And translate to russian? please!!!
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xdiesp
1,078 Posts
Posted Oct 02, 2011
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Phew, I managed to make peace with the phone company just in time then. Back to testing!
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MasterLagger
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Posted Oct 02, 2011
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xdiesp wrote:
Phew, I managed to make peace with the phone company just in time then. Back to testing!

Was GLaDOS impersonating the phone company again? Tsk Tsk.

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Ricotez
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Posted Oct 03, 2011
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Portal 2 DLC coming soon? Aw yeah

initiates Aperture Science Victory Candescence

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AntiVector
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Posted Oct 04, 2011
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For the video, as I said on YouTube:

AntiVector, on YouTube, wrote:
7:55 I saw (get ready for this): The original Periodic table,Atlas&P-body,logos for the Citadel,Dharma,and VaLVE(old),a lot of grayscale pics,a rorshach,a 3-hatted-man,the wcc (twice),the fluxcapacitor,lemons,some legal documents,nyan cat,a vase,lots of Ratman drawings,hoopy,HAL,binary code (Utter gibberish, but the #s are unreadable at the sides, so I missed some 1s and/or 0s),some public art,the UN,CERN,a raven canetopper,the Loch Ness Monster, [schematics for the Death Star, Borealis,Cyclon Racer, and Mach 5],cake,various landscapes and "no signal" screens,2 motherboards,a cyberman,some japanese,a panda,[the shed, rustic art, and the big door from P2], some circular Morse code.

EDIT:and the H-bomb, I missed that one.

pants and most of that was IN ORDER, man that was an hour well spent.

And indeed it was.

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