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Mysterious achievement appears in Portal

Hardline writes "In today's update to Portal, something mysterious has happened, radios have appeared throughout the portal world... With some kind of encrypted radio signal."

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Pandamobile5583d ago

I love these, lol. Valve releases a weird update for a game, and the whole SteamPowered and Facepunch community go fricking nuts trying to figure out the meaning of it.

The update included a new achievement and some weird sound files containing a lot of morse code. Currently, we have teams for decypherers attempting to break the complex code of beeps.

<3 Valve

Fullish5583d ago

The facepunch community goes nuts over anything.

toyuts5583d ago

The company that hires modders for their company should have more recognition

Pandamobile5583d ago

Trust me, Valve is one of, if not the most highly regarded developers out there (it's just that N4G is a PS3 cess pool, and they don't get a lot of credit around here).

Valve, they only:
Listen to their community
Get involved with their community
Give loads of free DLC
Kick-started digital distribution
Keep the PC gaming market thriving
Do everything a good developer should :)

lsujester5583d ago

Except understand the concept of episodic games. *looking at episode 3*

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Pandamobile5583d ago (Edited 5583d ago )

Bit of an update on the present situation:

The files included in the update are all named "dinosaur_xxx", and are mostly sound files.

The sound files have been converted into picture files via an SSTV program (converts sound waves to images) and what we have are some very weird results.

Here are some of the converted sound file pictures:
http://www.facepunch.com/sh...

I think Valve's up to something big if they're toying with us like this.

Also this was found in in the hex code for one of the files:
http://i47.tinypic.com/2qnz...

It's stuff like this that really makes Valve stand out from the rest :)

jerethdagryphon5583d ago

thats funny , and i did hear from gabe himself that we hadnt heard the last from apature sience

rawrockkillz5583d ago

I've been following it on the Steam forums and it is pretty crazy.

table5583d ago

didn't half-life2 episode2 have an update at the exact same time? maybe there is something to decipher in that too...

Pandamobile5583d ago

They had to do an Orange Box engine update, so Ep2 got updated along side Portal.

(TF2 and DOD:S run on different Orange Box engines)

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Portal with RTX Update: Now With DLSS 4 & RTX Neural Radiance Cache

Today, Portal with RTX is being upgraded with DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, multiplying framerates, as well as the transformer model for Ray Reconstruction and DLAA, enabling even better image quality. Portal with RTX is also adding RTX Neural Radiance Cache (NRC), a neural shader that improves indirect lighting, as well as a bevy of performance optimizations.

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10 Legendary Games That Still Absolutely Crush It in 2025

Discover 10 timeless video games from the past that remain absolutely playable today. From Chrono Trigger to DOOM, these classics have aged like fine wine!

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anast34d ago

Simon's Quest is better than Symphony.

djl348534d ago

If you're gonna troll, at least make a legitimate attempt.

Levii_9234d ago

Hot damn that's a good list. The only one i never played is AOE2 and i never finshed Chrono Trigger but it was damn good.

Speaking of what's old but holds up amazingly well and plays like a dream.. i played Symphony of the Night for the first time in 2019.. yep that's right. It became one of my favourite games of all time that i replay almost every year. I couldn't believe how good it was. That is almost impossible for me with newer games let alone older ones. Truly a special gem.

LG_Fox_Brazil34d ago

That's a pretty fucking great list

__y2jb34d ago (Edited 34d ago )

The only one I’d disagree with is doom. It shows its age badly I think. After 5 minutes of play these days you put it down.

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Steam's highest-rated game is now less than a dollar in the Spring Sale

Jack writes: "Yet again browsing the latest offers in the Steam Spring Sale has led us to track down the very best. In terms of price to quality, we don’t think that it gets much better than this. Portal 2 is now less than a dollar, and if you haven’t got it already, now is the time to pick it up."

TheEroica451d ago

Portal deserves to be one of steams highest rated games... It's almost tetris levels of perfect game design.

TheEnigma313451d ago

It's a great game, but highly overrated. But for $1, it's an amazon deal.

Friendlygamer451d ago

Valve should bring their games to ps5

Kados450d ago (Edited 450d ago )

Gotta love Steam. Just got Portal 2 for .97 cents CAD. Should have been $1.29, selected the bundle with Portal 1 and 2, which gets a 25% discount, already have Portal 1, so it removes the cost of that, and still applies the full 25% bundle discount to Portal 2. 90% + 25% discount.

Friendlygamer449d ago

That's sweet, I've been thinking about building a modest pc to play some oldies