One artist has put the two together (along with Portal and Skyrim) to create some killer mashups.

“As the sun sets on this current generation of video games, I’ve been thinking about some of the classic games that people will still (hopefully) point to years from now and hold them up as games that made a difference, and possibly, for some child out there, Portal or Skyrim will be a memory from their early childhood,” says the artist, Joey Spiotto.

Right on. Hopefully, my kids will sleep with a Mr. Bubbles. Maybe even a Dovahkiin doll. Maybe, if I have a daughter, she can don the orange pants and white tank-top of our Portal heroine for Halloween. Those are the kinds of thoughts that occur to me while looking at these wonderful little prints. Bravo.

You can purchase the 3-print set for $50 over on Etsy.

[Joebot via Kotaku]

Having said that, my time would have been a lot more enjoyable if I would have been able to play Portal instead of that “hey which urinal should I chose” game.

Today’s cool thing of the day is this Portal clone, Portal Prelude, which is playalbe on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus series of graphing calculators.

If you want to play it, it’s downloadable here.

[Builderboy via The Daily What]

Sony is trying its best to take some wind out of Microsoft’s sails, though, and will be releasing a PlayStation Move compatible version of Portal 2 via the PlayStation Network on November 6. The game will be 30% off for PlayStation Plus members and those who already own Portal 2 for PlayStation 3 will receive the PlayStation Move upgrade in a free patch.

Over on the PlayStation Blog, Sixense Studios announced it has collaborated with Sony and Valve to bring PlayStation Move support to Portal 2. Better yet, what’s being called a “motion DLC campaign” for Portal 2 will also be available next Tuesday for $10.

Called Portal 2 In Motion, the DLC will provide players with new test chambers requiring players to use new powers. One of the new abilities is the scaling and rotation of objects, as well as grabbing and placing objects from a distance. As demonstrated in the video below, this ability will allow players to distort companion cubes and other objects to function as bridges or sit on more than one switch. Another power Sixslide calls “portal surfing” allows players to slide an active portal along a surface.

Are you still there? Good, because I want to show you what’s going to be the envy of every gaming room and hip office across the world.

Not much to see here – just a fully functioning replica turret from Portal, commissioned by Valve and produced by award-winning design and manufacturing studio WETA Workshop.

“On September 13th, 2012, Valve received another mysterious crate from WETA Workshop. Inside was a full-scale, articulated Portal turret, complete with a motion sensor. Once again, WETA Workshop’s gone far, far beyond our expectations to deliver something truly amazing. Thank you, WETA Workshop!” says Valve.

Screw the iPhone 5, this is the best unboxing video you’ll see all week:

Sure, there have been Aperture Science turrets made before – even ones that featured sound. But nothing like this, with the motion tracking and all. It’s in a league of its own.

According to VentureBeat, WETA leaves the door open for these little replicas to go on the market. Although, they would definitely be too pricey for the average Portal enthusiast to own.

I’m assuming that the turret doesn’t actually fire live rounds. Now, if it could be modified to launch jelly beans or something…

The guys at Valve call it the “Perpetual Testing Initiative” and its goal is to provide a limitless supply of puzzles to Portal 2 players around the world. Until now, the level editor was only built for single-player puzzles, but one half of the core game is built around co-op. That’s why Valve has now expanded the level editor to let people create co-op puzzles.

Valve knows that a lot of us don’t have any friends to play these co-op puzzles with though. That’s why all Portal 2 owners will receive a 75 percent off Portal 2 coupon in their Steam inventory today. They can give the coupon to a friend so they can pick up Portal 2 on the PC for only $5.

They have also added a quick play feature to Portal 2. It will create a randomly generated playlist of the top rated Portal 2 user created levels. It’s never ending so you can keep playing until your eyes bleed or you become a potato, whichever one comes first.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like they recorded any new lines for everybody’s favorite Aperture founder – Cave Johnson. The first level editor update did though and you can listen to all the lines here. Here’s hoping that Portal 2 gets some story content later on that brings more Cave Johnson fun to the Portal 2 faithful. It would be enough to get me playing the game again.

YouTube user, SourceRuns, has posted his team’s run of Portal that completes the game in 8 minutes and 31 seconds. That beats the previous record of 9 minutes and 25 seconds. Here’s the description of the run from the YouTube channel:

Portal Done Pro-er (this run) is our improvement of the current segmented Portal speedrun, Portal Done Pro (PDP). However, to be SDA legal we have done our run without using scripts/cheats/hacks for any portion of the run. This run first started after the discovery of a new glitch, which snowballed into a whirlwind of discoveries of new tricks, skips, and glitches. We started running chambers in April, took a brief hiatus, and then resumed work in late June. The bulk of the run was completed in about 2 weeks time. The final result cuts roughly 53 seconds of realtime off of PDP, bringing the total time to 8:31.93. This run is the second official run of a commercial title to be released by the Sourceruns team, and the second run to be submitted to SDA. However, it is the first Sourceruns project to be done without scripts

Check out the impressive speed run below:

As you may have guessed, this run uses liberal amounts of glitches to complete the speedrun. It almost makes sense that the portal gun would be able to create doors into alternate dimensions that allow players to skip entire sections.

[h/t: PC Gamer]

If you aren’t familiar with LEGO Cuusoo, here’s the short version: It’s a Web site where fans can propose new LEGO sets. After it reaches the set amount of votes, the LEGO company looks into making the set a reality. It has already worked for an amazing LEGO Minecraft set, and now the fans are attempting to get a Portal set made.

The idea was proposed on June 28 and it already has an amazing 3,149 backers for the project. The team behind the design has proposed three initial LEGO sets based on various scenes from the first Portal game. They include GLaDOS’ chamber, a testing room and a LEGO board game. It’s actually a pretty amazing project and it deserves your votes.

While there is no guarantee that the set will get made if it reaches the requisite number of votes, I say it has a better chance than most. Valve loves to make quality merchandise of its properties (life-size replicas of the Portal Gun and turrets, anyone?) and a LEGO set would be one more step on its way to global domination of the toy market. So, if you have a heart, cast your vote over at the LEGO Cuusoo page.

While you’re at it, you can cast a vote for these equally deserving projects: Castle Crashers, League of Legends, and Doctor Who. With your help, we can make sure that the world get the LEGO sets that deserve to be made.

To help sell Quantum Conundrum, the new game from Portal co-creator Kim Swift, iam8bit has put together a faux-game show based based on the title called “The Super Dimensional Quantum Learning’s Problems and Solutions Gametime Spectacular!!” If that sounds a tad bit ridiculous to you, you’re not alone. It almost seems like the whole thing was thrown together at the last minute and the title was just an afterthought based on stereotypical Japanese game show titles.

So how’s the actual show? It’s admirable that they kept the feel of the game in tact, but the actual content just isn’t very good. We do, however, get to see what Kevin Pereira has been up to since he left G4 and Attack of the Show. He’s the highlight of an otherwise atrocious attempt at trying to be a parody of the game shows I grew up with in the 90s.

This is just the first episode of the planned mini-series so here’s hoping it gets better from here on out. There are still three more dimensions for them to play around with so the challenges could get more interesting.

As a final thought, some network should really bring back Nick Arcade or some kind of approximation. If that fails, I’d be willing to settle for a new season of Legends of the Hidden Temple. We can make this happen.

Gaming Heads, a company that sells replica models of well-known Valve game characters, such as the Heavy and the Headcrab Zombie, is beginning to build a Portal 2 statue line. The first model they have created is a version of the lovable taking turrets, and the company has just begun accepting pre-orders.

The turret comes in two different limited editions. 750 of the standard turret replicas will be made. They will cost $300 and have a motion sensor that controls the turret’s eye. For $25 more, though, customers can buy one of 350 exclusive models that will include activation, search mode, disabled, and other sound clips from Portal 2. Both models have been generated using the in-game 3D files from Portal 2 and measure 16 inches tall. They are cast in poly-stone, hand painted, and come with a numbered validation card. Unfortunately, the exclusive turrets are sold out, though Gaming Heads does provide a waiting list in case someone cancels their order. The standard version is still available, though, so act quickly if you can spare $300 for one.

The turret models will start shipping sometime near the end of 2012. Gaming Heads doesn’t state what is next for its Portal 2 statue line-up, but I think its safe to assume the defective turret might be seen at some point, along with the Frankenturret.

The Wheatley Live Wallpaper sets the background of an Android phone (one running version 2.2 and up, at least) to the likeness of everyone’s favorite dumb and insane personality core. Wheatley’s eye will follow the user’s finger around the screen as they navigate the Android home screens. Unfortunately, the wallpaper won’t feature Stephen Merchant’s voice or any witty banter. Users can, though, change the color of Wheatley’s eye. Check out the short YouTube video below that demonstrates the wallpaper’s functionality:

The Wheatley Live Wallpaper was created by a Malaysian developer named Wye Mun Chin. Chin has created other Live Wallpapers for Android, including one similar to the Wheatley Live Wallpaper based on the movie “The Ring” that has the ghost girl’s eye follow the user around the screen. He has also created a game for the Android operating system called UFO Pew Pew. The Wheatley Live Wallpaper can be downloaded for $1 through the Google Play app store.

(via DroidLife)