I'm not even going to try to summarize the Portal ARG (Alternate Reality Game), so I'll just let this persondo it. That thread is conspiracy central for anyone who wants to look through it post by post.

As for Valve sending Mac based or related pictures to various news sites today, something Mac related, maybe iPod Touch/iPhone based, is coming. I'm putting my money on Steam for Macs.

Discuss. And no Mac bashing, no matter how tempting.

Steam + Some Source engine games on macs

I know for a fact that there are already mac ports of certain valve games. Examples include: Hl2, CSS, and L4D.

Good for them I suppose. Still lightyears away from actually multiple devs supporting mac, but it's a start.

This'll make a hell of a lot of people happy.

If Valve has ported the Source engine, then it brings with it all kinds of things.
For one, it would make it far less difficult to port the games that rely on it, as there is not a lot to a source game that is not handled via the engine.
I'm fairly certain that they do intend to bring Steam to the mac, as there is always room to expand profits. They also upgraded the Steam beta to rendering with Webkit (the renderer of both Chrome and Safari), so they obviously have some portability in mind.
I am not getting my hopes up just yet, they've been dashed on the rocks of crappy porting before.
But the evidence (they're just dropping these teasers all over) is pretty convincing.

I'm pretty certain the portal stuff is unrelated to the mac stuff.

I think the people who

A) thought up all the ridiculous clues
and B) cracked them

have way to much time, but are pretty cluey.

uh..... I can do that... I didn't think anyone would go quite that far for a teaser but...

uh.... what... this is reminding me of NIN's alt reality

What?!?!?!?!

All this for a bunch of ascii art? I mean, sure it's cool, but... It's looking like teasers for HL2 Ep 3... so why would they put it in PORTAL? Portal 2? I mean portal and halflife are in the same universe, and it never says where on earth portal takes place, although I'm pretty sure its in the states, while HL2 is in europe (stated several times that it's in europe)... maybe the combine have a different presence in the US (former US at that point...)



I did NOT notice this, but... I'mma go play portal now on steam.. beat it on the 360, but haven't played on the PC yet.... omfg....

--EDIT

I figured I'd eat first, and do some reasearch....

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... Images.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(video_game)#Portal_2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_2

Uh,.... I guess none of you saw >this<

That happened AFTER the massive conspiracy theory.

Yes, but it also happened BEFORE Mile's post.

I made that post, then I found more info.

also here's an interesting tidbit

In the portal (1) update, when you throw a radio into the disintegration things it plays some new sounds, and one of them contains the words "gordon freeman you're next!!!" played in reverse, as well as "Get me out of here" in a female voice (possibly your backup that GLaDOS mentions?)

oh yes, and I then sat down and played through portal, start to finish, in one sitting, getting all the radios I could find... I got 22/26 radios located and activated for the achievement... I then went through a full second time in developer commentary with noclip...

First of all, I then found 3 of the 4 i missed, as well as a fairly interesting comment



One of the original commentary nodes refers to "...in this first portal game..." which, immediately after the FIRST games release, instantly implied a sequel or prequel.

I kinda saw this coming.


also, unrelated to valve's announcement, but portal related.

Is it just me or does glados's body, not the balls, not the giant frame, but the part that hangs down... Is it just me or does it look like an adviser wearing some kind of helmet...