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Valve has announced the second game add-on Portal 2 is in development and targeted for release early next year. The update includes an “easy-to-use,” in-game map editor so you can design, build and share single-player and co-op test chambers. The community will be able to view, play and vote on your creations with “a simple click.” The development of the editor was mentioned earlier this week with the release of part two of the Final Hours of Portal 2 app, but was unconfirmed at the time. Portal 2′s first content update, Peer Review, was released two weeks ago.

Valve and Dark Horse have announced a hardcover collection of comics based on the worlds of Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, and Portal. The comic, which contains over two hundred pages of story, is titled: Valve Presents: The Sacrifice and other Steam-Powered Stories, and is to be made available on November 16. You can pre-order it here, and have a look at the cover below.

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Valve’s made the original Portal free to get from Steam on PC and Mac, but only from now until Tuesday. If you don’t already have the game, get to it here. You’d be very, very silly if you don’t, although that begs an entirely different question: why don’t you have it in the first place?

Thanks, RPS.

This seven minute live-action Portal-inspired short film is possibly the best game-to-movie conversion you’ve ever seen.

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Square Enix is soon to announce the latest title from Portal co-creator and former Valve designer Kim Swift, with an official unveiling planned for PAX Prime which takes place this weekend.

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Valve’s Portal 2 DLC is still heading your way this summer, and according to spokesman Doug Lombardi, it will be released sometime in mid-September. No further information was revealed about the content, but we’ve previously been told by the firm it will contain new test chambers, new challenge modes, and other nice nuggets for Mac, PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Thanks, Kotaku.

A 300-page strong Valve comic book will get a release in the US this coming autumn. On November 3, for $30, Dark Horse Comics will launch Valve Presents: The Sacrifice and other Steam-Powered Stories, a book based on comics penned on Team Fortress 2, Portal and Left 4 Dead, the latter’s Sacrifice will be the main comic of the lot.

More details at CBR. Thanks, Kotaku.

Gabe Newell would like you to know that he is not a man who has gone back on his word, even despite his apparent backflip on the topic of PlayStation 3 development. Instead, he’s just another vote in a democracy, and the tribe has spoken.

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This is no simple mod – this is Extreme PortalCraft, a new map for Minecraft featuring – you guessed it – a bunch of Portals.

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Valve’s Erik Wolpaw has said one of the reasons Chell doesn’t speak in Portal 2 is because she is a silent protagonist which “could be anyone.”

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Some weeks just eat you alive, or at least grab you by the neck an maul you a bit. To cope, read up on some smaller things that don’t bite as hard.

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The last day of the work week is almost here. Have some shorts to get you through until then.

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Valve’s announced that sales of the original Portal sit at almost 4 million units, and that’s not including one or two copies that may have been sold via Steam.

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Customers unhappy with day one DLC and complaints of console-related messages in the PC build have driven down the Portal 2′s Metacritic user rating.

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Valve has updated its Aperture Science page for Portal 2, and the countdown clock has ended. Now, the site is asking to to re-boot GLaDOS by playing games included in the Potato Sack offering.

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Valve’s Portal 2 ARG, a.k.a. the Potato Sack, has been updated to include The Ball and other games with added Portal themes.

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Valve has released the fourth and final video installment of the “Product” series of Aperture investment videos. It’s titled “Boots”.

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To feed your Portal 2 anticipation, Valve has produced an online comic bridging the gap between the two games.

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Valve plans to release some more information pertaining to the story in Portal 2 before it’s released on April 18. It’s just that it is saving it as a bit of a surprise, apparently.

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Valve’s Chet Faliszek has said the reason Portal 2 on PS3 will not have Move support is because it was designed specifically with console controllers in mind.

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