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Portal 2 delayed, new Source engine rumoured...

Adding up rumours and announcements leads us to think Portal 2 will use a shiny new Source engine. Oh, and Half Life 3 may be on the way...

Adding up Valve's latest press release and a curious rumour we've heard via the ever-reliable Tom's Hardware leads us to believe that Portal 2, when it does eventually get released, will be using a new version of the Source Engine.

Valve announced overnight that Portal 2, which was expected to ship late this year, has been pushed back to next year instead. The release, amusingly titled "VALVE ANNOUNCES MAKING GAMES IS HARD" (Valve's caps), tells us to expect the game some time in 2011. It also adds "all life on earth won't instantaneously stop as every molecule in your body explodes at the speed of light."

So that's something, at least.

The word on Tom's Hardware, however, is that the big Valve announcement at E3 will be next iteration of the Source Engine, as well as Half Life 3 (which, Tom's reports, will be released instead of Ep3). Taken together, this makes us happy in our physics-based problem-solving pants.

New Source engine + Portal 2 = brain exploding.

Hopefully we'll have more news direct from E3 next week.

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16 Comments

smadge1 Jun 10, 2010 11:09 AM	We're gonna need a faster PC (cue Jaws music)
Hawkeye Jun 10, 2010 11:18 AM	Hahaha!
battlefield_gir Jun 10, 2010 11:50 AM	FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
fredzfrog Jun 10, 2010 11:51 AM	The press release was a triumph :P
Hawkeye Jun 10, 2010 12:03 PM	At a recent club I DJ at, the DJ before ended her set that that song :) Man, that was hard to follow.
fr3nzystrikesback Jun 10, 2010 1:26 PM	Portal 2 will be fun... But another Half Life is another game for me to not care about while the masses drool over it.
Déta88 Jun 10, 2010 1:52 PM	This new source engine better be good
Periander Jun 10, 2010 2:23 PM	Source currently has been around for 6 years. In terms of graphics engines, it's ancient, yet there's still new titles utilizing it that look good and are just plain fun games. Heck, I still play CS:S on a regular basis. So if it's anywhere near as good as the current engine, they're already on to a winner.
sheok Jun 10, 2010 2:51 PM	yus! about time! BRING ON HL3!!!
CAPS LOCK Jun 10, 2010 3:49 PM	"Valve announced overnight that Portal 2...The release, amusingly titled "VALVE ANNOUNCES MAKING GAMES IS HARD" (Valve's caps)..." linky?
Hawkeye Jun 10, 2010 4:57 PM	We don't often link to press releases. I'm sure it's online somewhere, but that stuff usually comes down via email, or via other sites reporting on a release.
ArcaneMagik Jun 10, 2010 5:57 PM	But but but... bottom lip quivers I need my Episode 3.
CAPS LOCK Jun 10, 2010 8:40 PM	Ahh k Hawkeye, my mistake, I thought it was on the valve ( or steam, whatever :P) blog or on some other gaming site as a press release or what not (like kataku). Cheers, CAPS
fliptopia Jun 10, 2010 11:03 PM	VALVE ANNOUNCES MAKING GAMES IS HARD June 9, 2010 -- Aperture Science, doing business as Aperture Laboratories LLC, in partnership with Valve today announced the successful completion of an ethics-review-panel-supervised release date restructuring process. Portal 2, the sequel to the ground-breaking title that earned over 30 Game of the Year awards despite missing its original ship date, is now targeted for a 2011 release. June 9, 2010 -- Aperture Science, doing business as Aperture Laboratories LLC, in partnership with Valve today announced the successful completion of an ethics-review-panel-supervised release date restructuring process. Portal 2, the sequel to the ground-breaking title that earned over 30 Game of the Year awards despite missing its original ship date, is now targeted for a 2011 release. Representatives from both companies acknowledged that public safety concerns factored into the decision. They went on to say that even though Portal 2 will arrive slightly later than planned, all life on earth won't instantaneously stop as every molecule in your body explodes at the speed of light, which is what would happen should a rip ever appear in the fabric of Valve Time. "Also, the game will be even better," they added, missing an historic opportunity to create the first product delay press release to mention that a product is being delayed to make it worse. To ask questions about how close we all came to dying, or to ask futile questions about the previously announced E3 *PORTAL-2-THEMED-FOR-GOD'S SAKE* surprise or, less futilely, to schedule an appointment to attend a Portal 2 screening at the Valve booth during E3, please contact Valve's delegate to the EU's Valve Time Studies Group, Doug Lombardi.
CAPS LOCK Jun 11, 2010 8:51 AM	Cheers, fliptopia.God i love valve humour.
Harpy Queen Jun 13, 2010 9:12 PM	I really hope they do give us half life 3 soon. I want it now...

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