Edit: Looks like Glados are “booting” Portal 2 early if it gets enough “CPUs” playing each of the games in the Potato Sack bundle. . Check it out! http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/
Remember our tongue in cheek ‘make your own Valve rumour!‘ article last year? Valve have made sure we don’t need to any rumours up, with Valve launching their Potato Sack bundle on April Fool’s Day, offering 13 indie games for 75% off.
Before long, ARG-enthusiasts and feverish Steam-Forums members began to notice potato-themed easter eggs hidden the games from the bundle. . Read on more about that (in fact read EVERYTHING you could possibly want to read about that on the Valve ARG (Alternate Reality Game) Wiki.
That will bring you up to date with this myserious count-down timer, which surfaced over the past 24 hours:
What are they up to?
Here at Sudogamer, we’ve come up with our popular theories:
- No reveal at all? - Not likely, as the uproar backlash would be terrible. Terribly amusing.
- Black Mesa (community mod / reworking of the original) – Not likely, again. As this isn’t made by Valve, however we haven’t heard any news for them in a year. . .
- Episode 3? – Slim chance but, they did put a short portal game in with Half Life: Episode 2 so Portal 2 with “Episode 3″ thrown in would justify a full price. Only problem here is that it would somewhat ‘devalue’ the Half-Life “brand”. At best it could possibly be a HL:EP 3 announcement.. . ?
- Half life 3? – No chance. . .just.. not gonna happen.
- L4d2 meets portals? – A merging of left 4 dead with the Portal universe, messing with the zombies heads with portal-based fun. This would be awful, I’d hate to see this.
- A “Lost Coast” style demo of something NEW – This is my favourite theory. A release another of their tech-demo levels, showcasing a new Source engine, which will end with a release date for Half Life 2: Episode 3.
Only 5 and half hours to go before we find out, until then – any other theories or comments? Let us know, below.
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