Portal 2 Video Walkthroughs HERE! Stuck in Portal 2? Brains on the edge of melt-down?

 It's been a long time coming, I remember that fateful week too well - playing the first Portal feverishly until I beat the whole thing. It was so addictive, so simple, yet I was stuck for hours on 2-3 tricky levels If I remember correctly. But eventually, I did it! Such a unique and rewarding game playing experience.

Portal 2 finally came out, you can get it for PS3 and get a voucher code to unlock the PC version on Steam, so I'm told. That sounds like a good deal actually, considering the higher cost of PS3 games in general. Or if you have been using Valve's Steam application, it will be there of course for immediate download. [I Still don't know why people refuse to use Steam! - You can get some screaming deals on the 'special' tab there. And it's so nice to be able to re-download your games at any time, if your hard-drive crashes or simply from another pc!]

Valve is still one of the few good dev's out there. I'm sure when I get my hands on this, I will smile and marvel at the polished, clean graphics, the humor, and the way the game makes me feel like I just figured something tremendous out, that in all rights I shouldn't have been able to!

If you ARE stuck though, I found a really good site that contains a YouTube video for each and every level's  walk-through HERE. Good luck!

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Team Fortress 2 Major Update, Discounted to $10!

Arguably, one of the most visually original online 'shooters' available today, and a personal fav, Team Fortress 2 [Valve software] has now been blessed with even more gaming goodness, a comprehensive patch AND add-on, free of charge from the devs. If you don't already have this game, they are celebrating the update by discounting the price for you! It's now a measly $10 dollars.

To what do we owe this pleasure you ask? NOTHIN', because unlike EA... Valve actually isn't out to squeeze every last one of us gamers out of our last nickel! Nope- they respect us, and reward us for being loyal customers by providing free extras and comprehensive tweaks and fixes.

So game on! Time to fire it up again and see how the newly vamped 'Scout' class does.

List of all the updates & New features :
Added The Force-A-Nature, The Sandman, and Bonk!
Added 35 new Scout achievements
Added crit boosted on/off sound effects
Added new sounds for upgraded teleporters
Added new sound for a fully charged medic dying
Add bonus points section to scores
Scouts earn a bonus point for killing Medics who are actively healing a target
Added several new speech concepts, mostly hooked up to new Scout lines
Added new "Remember last weapon between lives" option to the Multiplayer Advanced dialog
Spies can now control which weapon the enemy team sees them holding. Hitting the "last disguise" key while disguised updates the disguise to show the Spy's currently held weapon
Added several new Arena mode announcer speech events.
Added "First Blood" to Arena mode
Removed 2x item respawn times in arena
Changed backstab handling to fix facestabs
Spies disguised as enemy team can now see player IDs for enemies
New maps [3 new maps!!]
Added community maps: cp_egypt, arena_watchtower, and cp_junction
Updated cp_fastlane with Arttu's new version
Mapmaker requests
Added new input for forward speed modifier to FuncTrainTrain
Added TeleportToPathTrack input to func_tracktrain
Bugfixes
Fixed a bug where players would sometimes gib from non-gib damage kills
Fixed stat screen showing an entry for a class called "map."
Fixed item model panels not using team skins