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Portal: Still Alive – the map pack saga

News of a Portal map pack was released at E3, but details were frustratingly vague.  Scouring the internet for details was equally frustrating, as the project history is fairly nontraditional.  Here's the deets, as far as I can tell.

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Quantum of Solace Gameplay Trailer Impressions

Video game adaptations of movies are notoriously awful, as are movie adaptations of video games.  Case in point: the Spiderman games suffered from clunky controls and the Tomb Raider movies were overly dramatized and unfaithful to the video game character designs.  Games like these are usually shovelware (that is, games that are produced quickly and cheaply in order to get the game in stores as quickly as possible to take advantage of hype).  Even though these games are notoriously bad, affiliation with popular movies usually causes them to receive fairly good sales results based on name-recognition.

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