PlayStation Network to be down longer than expected

It’s been a couple of weeks since 77 million PS3 users found themselves without access to online services – but it’s not over yet. While the PlayStation Blog announced a week ago that services should be resumed within a week, it’s now been announced that there will be a further delay in PSN services due to the severity of the attack. While this is a frustrating period for PS3 owners, Sony have assured that their priority is making sure their system is secure, so it should be for the best in the long run.

As a “Welcome back” package, Sony will be compensating it’s users with an offer of a month’s free subscription to PlayStation Plus, and also ” offering PSN users the opportunity to select two PS3 games from a list of five, as well as offering PSP users the opportunity to choose two games from a list of four.” I would assume these titles will be lower-cost games from their library, but it seems like a decent gesture considering PSN is a free-to use service.

Portal 2 DLC Officially Announced

Fans of Valve’s physics-defying sequel to Portal will be happy to hear that the game will be recieving its first batch of DLC sometime “this summer”. And better yet – it’s going to be free!

The new additions will comprise of new test chambers, as well as challenge modes for both single player and co-operative modes – adding more complex spins on the already existing chambers in the game – time limits, portal restrictions or new elements to the stages. Leaderboards will also be added for the more competitive players out there.

Obviously the term “first DLC pack” makes it sound as though we’ll be seeing more additions to the game in future, so hopefully Valve will keep supporting the game in the future.

Nintendo to allow 3rd-party developers on 3DS eShop

While the Wii does have an online store, the lack of access to third-party developers has really let it’s store go stale – once fans had downloaded their favourite old Nintendo titles, the store rarely offers anything new or innovative – especially compared to the content regularly offered on Xbox Live or PSN – titles such as Peggle, and Zen Studios’ Pinball games.

However, the 3DS will apparently be leaving this restrictive choice made by Nintendo, and instead offer third-party developers to create content to be downloaded for use on their latest handheld system. So hopefully we’ll be seeing plenty of great new handheld content in the vein of Angry Birds or Castle Crashers, as well as old NES/SNES titles and GameBoy Advance games. Let’s just hope that it’s not too late for Nintendo to gain enough interest in downloadable games to make a profit.

- Leon

Portal was unlike any game I had ever played before. Not only was the concept new and refreshing, but puzzles challenging, the story line compelling and the in game physics quite simply mind bending. I cannot deny that from my first ‘Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out’ gravity propelled jump I was hooked, and I could not bring myself to put down my controller until every last inch of the Aperture Science Testing Facility had been portaled to within an inch of its life. However when looking back at Portal it is not launching myself across seemingly impossible distances that I remember most fondly. Instead it was the dry sadistic humor of the all powerful Ai GLaDOS which really left me wanting more. After my many efforts to destroy her the mere suggestion that she may be ‘Still alive’ was the ultimate set up for a sequel, and luckily for me in 2011 my wish was granted. With such an epic reputation to follow my expectations for Portal 2 were understandably high, but could the long awaited sequel ever live up to the original? It was time to portal in and find out.

Without GLaDOS the Aperture Science Testing Facility has fallen into a state of disrepair. The test chambers have been abandoned, and the once white walls and smooth clean surfaces are now overgrown and cast into shadow. It is here that we once again join our heroine Chell, who having been kept in controlled suspension for many years is abruptly awoken by a small, extremely talkative Ai called Wheatley. It is with the help of your new long winded friend (voiced by Stephan Merchant, no less) that you are able to escape the confines of your room and travel back through the ruins towards safety. Now I say ‘towards safety’ because of course it is not that simple. Though wounded by your previous attempt to destroy her it would appear that GLaDOS, along with her trademark dark sense of humor is still very much alive and out for revenge. With your re-appearance not only giving her the perfect test subject but also a somewhat renewed vigor for life, she awakens and begins to rebuild Aperture Science ready to continue with the testing. Unlike the original Portal where GLaDOS mostly only appeared as a disembodied voice, in Portal 2 every part of the facility appears fully under her control with the walls, floors and panels mechanically moving effortlessly at her command. Time to run? I think so.

"I've been really busy being dead..."

With more time having been dedicated to its development, Portal 2 offers not only much more content, but more mind bending puzzles and more attention to detail. Your attempts to once again disable and destroy GLaDOS will take you deeper into the forgotten depths of Aperture Science than ever before. As well as battling your way through multiple new tests which GLaDOS has built, as you make your way through the lower levels of the facility you will also discover a wealth of forgotten test chambers containing many abandoned technologies. It is within these chambers that you must solve puzzles involving not only sentry turrets and your faithful companion cube, but also deadly lasers, areal faith plates, reflective cubes, light bridges and various types of experimental propulsion, repulsion and conversion gel each of which add their own challenge.

Light bridges

Exploring more of the Aperture Science facility also forces you to face new challenges concerning height and distance. Whereas the original Portal game mainly took place in and around the relatively confined environment of the test chambers, Portal 2 encourages you to use your portal gun combined with your new found technologies to traverse distances which would previously have seemed impossible. Using the zoom on your Portal gun you are now able to portal to new heights, fall to new lows and bounce like you have never bounced before. Though your freedom to explore is still somewhat limited but Un-Portalable walls the game does give you more of a sense of space and distance, which unless you are afraid of heights is a good thing.

Vertigo anyone?

On a slightly different note I must say that the zoom on the portal gun makes this game much more friendly to Non-HD Tv users than most other new releases. Aside from using the zoom to identify far away platforms and walls it also came in very useful when correcting my aim or even attempting to read the various signs and graffiti dotted around the facility. This makes a nice change for those of us whose appetite for technology is much larger than our rather skinny bank balances.

GLaDOS had really let the place go since Chell left...

Exploring the lower levels of the facility not only allows you to discover new technologies, but it also enables you to find out more about the forgotten past of Aperture Science. As you explore the deserted offices and test chambers automated recordings intended to brief new test subjects introduce you to the CEO of Aperture Science, Cave Johnson (Jk Simmons) and his partner Carolyn. These recordings may start as helpful instructional tapes but as the game progresses they become much darker and more personal becoming less instructional and more like audio diaries recording a decent into madness. Listening to the lost recordings gives a much needed insight into the history of Aperture Science adding depth to the story without losing the sense of mystery the game creates. It is like being told a story which you feel like you already know, and yet somehow you cant quite remember where you have heard it or how it will end. In short, compelling.

This could get messy

It is worth mentioning at this point that though up to now I have told you quite a basic version of the story line and that this is not all that you can expect out of Portal 2. For spoiler reasons I will not go into great detail about what is to come, however I can say with confidence that the story line is new and engaging with a lot more plot twists and turns than the original. The game maintains its sense of humor throughout, with the addition of Wheatly’s over wordy commentary contrasting nicely with GLaDOS and her sinister sense of humor.

Introducing Wheatley

Aside from the single player mode Portal 2 also has an impressive stand alone Co-op mode which can be enjoyed with a friend either though split screen play or online. The Co-op levels are set after the events of the single player game and consist of an entirely new set of levels in which you and a friend are put through your portal paces. You play as two robots designed by GLaDOS to test the most demanding set of test chambers yet. Using four Portals instead of the traditional two you and your partner must work together to negotiate your way through the test chambers, using a combination of moveable colored markers and pre-programmed expressions (In addition to the old pointing and shouting method) to communicate with one another. The fact that these levels are entirely independent from the main story line not only makes them easy to enjoy with a friend but it also makes it feel as if you are getting 2 games for the price of one.

Its more fun to play with a friend...

If I had to give Portal 2 a score out of ten it would be a solid nine. I had to knock a point off because I found that when playing the Co-Op mode through for a second time (with a new partner) I found myself remembering the solutions to many of the puzzles leading me to become bossy and not so much fun to play with. Other than this, the game was an enjoyable, compelling and worthy sequel. A great new addition to the Portal family which I highly recommend to puzzle gamers, FPS gamers and in fact, any random passer by whom I happen to meet in the street.

Until next time,

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Portal 2

Out now for XBox 360, PC and PS3

Valve: www.thinkwithportals.com

Robot Hugz

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Everyone probably knows by now that FPS games are my thing, I have said it enough times and I am probably going to say it several more times before I die, it’s even getting to the point that when I do die I do genuinely hope that I respawn and get another go. But with all that being said my FPS tastes have been broadening and I do genuinely thank Portal for this.

When I first played Portal back on the orange box, I wasn’t expecting much of a game if I am to be honest. It was just a game that was included with Half Life and Team Fortress to fill up some disk space. I genuinely thought this when I was taking the game back from the shop I bought it from. So I got stuck into HL and completed it as usual. Then I thought why the hell not and broke out Portal to see what it was like, Sure I had heard a couple of things on the net stating that this game was amazing and revolutionary. I was undecided, untill about, say a minuet or so into the game literally. It was like love at fist sight all over again.

Portal had everything I thought a game needed to make a fantastic and engrossing experience that would give you a good mixture of action, thinking and overall brilliantly simplistic story line that will keep you entertained for every minuet of playing the  game. I never thought a first Person puzzle game would work so well but it did.

One of the things that I do love about video games in general is the fact that you can connect with the main protagonist, the fact that you can take the role of someone or something that saves the world from and alien invasion or a demon onslaught. You just feel that in games most days you are in control of a super powered being and you feel awesome. Portal is very different.

For a long long time I had no idea Chell was even female let alone a named protagonist in Portal. It wasn’t untill I was mucking about with portals in a corner of one of the test rooms that I caught a glimpse of my bionic legged self. This then changed my perspective of the game ever so slightly, I’m not running round the chamber of the Aperture science facility as a generic un-named character who I genuinely thought was myself. I have now taken the form of a woman who does have a name (after a little bit on internet research as the game didn’t mention her name once). So this now means I am leading someone elses life and not my own as it were. Making someone elses decisions, and did this take the atmosphere away from me a bit?

Well yes and no, yes because I thought for so long that I was my own character, ok so I didn’t get to the point of calling myself a name and making up my own back story (and I kind of have when I have played generic nameless character before. This is another reason why I love GTA III, sad I know) and having the realisation that I was indeed a character that Valve had created and had given a name, I was a little taken back, as the immersion of the game was taken away from me a little.

But then there is the other side of the coin. There is also the reason why it didn’t take from the experience. Playing portal I never really saw myself or Chell as the main character. The first voice you hear as you come out of your cryo-sleep is the voice of GLaDOS (interestingly her name is never mentioned in the game either) and she is the only voice you hear through the entire game. So I like most of the gaming universe out there consider her as the main character of the game. As she is such a fantastically written character she carries the story of the game perfectly, meaning that whatever form your character takes it never takes from the fact that GLaDOS is the core character of the game.

So as you can see, even though I was a little taken back that Chell wasn’t a generic character for my mind to play with, she didn’t take away from GLaDOS and that in general makes me happy. Portal 2 on the other hand maybe much of the same or could take Chell to another level which I am a little worried about.

After doing a little bit of research of Chell in Portal 2 it appears she has gone through a couple of designs. The first one being revealed saw Chell as Aperture science constructed test subject who had obviously been abducted by the test facility after her escape in the first Portal. This design automatically then gave her a bit more personality and characterisation that would probably take away from the atmosphere that the first Portal gave.

Then she went through a redesign, back in her orange overalls which does a little bit of fan service as well as give her a tiny bit of characterisation but not too much, I do prefer the second design as it still makes her a tiny bit generic so she doesn’t take too much away from the awesomeness that is GLaDOS and indeed any of the other character that will be in Portal 2.

The art designers from Portal 2 had this to say about the re-design: “In the end, Chell still functions mainly as a representation of the player in the world. We want players to feel it’s their own personal journey they’re embarking on in Portal 2, instead of forcing them into the character of Chell and making them role-play that in some awkward way. That said, we wanted players familiar with Chell from Portal 1 to see evidence of a transformation when returning to the world of Portal 2.”

This makes me very happy indeed, and Portal 2 is definitely still one of the games I am seriously looking forward too this year. All in all, its great that Chell has a name, but keeping her at least a little generic and plain is perfect as the Portal story will just mold around her and you as a player.

- Garv

Back when I first got my hands on Portal when it was released in 2007, I was both amazed and hooked to what had to be the best game that I though was ever made. It was like nothing I had ever played before. Granted I was and always will be an FPS fan through and through, but Portal was so much its narrative was well thought out and its game play was second to none. No one had ever played a game such as this before, so it was pretty revolutionary.

The game had me hooked, to this day it is still the only game I have played and re-played a countless amount of times and still loved every second of it. It is one of the few XBox LIVE arcade games I have totally maxed out achievement wise. In other words it is just awesome.

So you can probably imagine my over blown excitement for the release of Portal 2 in April. But will the game rival its predecessor and be dubbed as probably one of the best games of 2011? I am hoping so for a couple of reasons.

Innovative Level Design

Yes we all know the first Portal had some innovative level design and some fantastic game play. But Portal two promises a lot more gadgets to solve puzzles and a more diverse environment. You have things like jump pads, tractor beams, laser beams, red goo that makes you run at break neck speak, blue goo that makes you bounce around the room, that is all well and good, but what I am excited about most is the fact that you are playing in a dilapidated Aperture science reasearch facility, and the facility is being brought back to life by GLaDOS while you play the game. This could make for some awesome and very memorable gaming experiences. It is giving me goose bumps just thinking about it.

Multi-Player

If Portal wasn’t awesome enough already, multiplayer has made Portal 2 possibly one of the most anticipated games of 2011. Co-op play between friends trying to solve puzzles. Doesn’t sound all that on paper but if you have played Portal then you know how stupidly awesome this is.

Multiplayer wise we know that you play as two Aperture science robots and you have to solve the puzzles as a team, both armed with portal devices, this could shape up to be one of the best co-op modes in existence. The other great thing here is Portal could be making a turn for the gaming history books, as this is the first ever online game to go cross-platform. Meaning PS3 and PC owners and go hand in hand when playing Portal 2 online. This is a step in the right direction for games and should not be over looked in the slightest. If this cottons on we can see a new gaming revolution quite soon.

I seriously cannot wait for this game. Stay tuned to Plusxp.com for more info on Portal 2 as it reaches our ears.

Garv

E3 this year saw Portal 2, and oh my god I think I have seen the game of 2011, no sod that I have seen the game of the decade. Believe me, I am not exaggerating.

The first portal gave us so much, by showing us a new dimension to puzzle games and indeed first person perspective games as a whole. Now that the first game has established this, this then gave Valve a lot to play with for next installment, and believe me when I say that Valve have gone full-out with Portal 2.

Lets set the scene, it has been a fair few years since GlaDOS was destroyed and the Aperture Science facility was blown to smithereens, and for some reason you have made a welcome return to the test facility. Valve have stated that this game will be more story heavy than the last game. But knowing Valve’s use of the use of humour and the awesome personality that is GlaDOS, the game being more story driven is defiantly not a bad thing.

From what I have seen you are first guided around the ruins of the Facility by an AI sphere named Wheatley. He has an awesome british cockney accent and is just simply trying to break you out. What I have seen of him is hilarious, in certain parts of the opening of the game he has to access information from the Aperture science data base. Thing is he can’t do whilst you’re looking because it makes him nervous, its little bit of humour like this that will make portal 2 pretty much perfect. Anyway Wheatley is the one who accidently awakens GlaDOS and, she rebuilds the facility around you.

As she is rebuilding she has put in some new things into each test chamber, it is up to you to of corse complete the puzzles and get your self out of there and probably defeat her once more. NOw with the facility being rebuilt there is obviously going to be some new puzzles, and some new features. I gotta say, some of the new things that Valve have put into this game, look amazing.

So what new features are we looking forward too? Well here is a list of what has been confirmed.

Tractor Beams

These beams are very simple but effective. They can carry objects in a straight line in mid-air. The beauty of these things is that you can of corse use portals to alter the destination of said tractor beam. For example, you want a cube, throw the cube in the beam, set a portal at the end of the tractor beam, set another portal above the button you want the cube to go on and watch is float onto the button. Very simple, but when used with transporting yourself, very awesome.

Ariel Faith Plate

Basically these are just huge trampoline floor tiles that spring you in a direction with great hight. Think Sonic and the trampolines you get in that and you get the idea. Just times it by at least 100.

Thermal Discouragement Beam.

Basically a shiny red laser beam that will instantly fry you. The awesome thing here is they come with cube’s with mirrors in them. So you pick one of these cube up and you can direct the beam how you want with the cube, destroying enemies and activating switches, of corse you can use portals to direct the beam also.

Pneumatic Diversity Vent

This vent will suck up anything and just transport it to another place in the facility or another section of the room. Watch in hilarity as you see gun droids get sucked up by this thing and they shout, weeeeeee!

Repulsion Gel

A nice blue goo like substance that is dispensed out of a vent. Use portals to put the gel wherever you like, then walk on it and see yourself rocket to the skis. Like the ariel faith plate but more portable and awesome.

Prepulsion Gel

Another Nice goo that is dispensed out of a vent. This Red Goo when applied to any surface lets you run along that surface and tremendous speeds. It’s like nitrous oxide for your feet. Its going to be one of my favorite features next to the tractor beam.

Portal 2 is looking amazing, and it sounds like there might be more announced yet. In my opinion it looks like this game is set to be a full stand-alone release as opposed to a downloadable game, meaning Vale will have a lot to play with.

I Love GlaDOS!

Garv.

Video’s from IGN’s E3 Portal Coverage

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Welcome one and all to today’s show. This week I am sitting on the couch with ‘Genetic Life form and Disk Operating System’ This is a once in a life time interview, and we will be discussing the Values of Human life and what it means to be a hyper intelligent A.I.

Garvaos: Welcome GLaDOS, May I call you GLaDOS?

GLaDOS: Hello, and again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer aided enrichment center.

Garvaos: Umm Yes. So tell us about yourself, where are you from.

GLaDOS: My Purpose is to help and guide test subjects through the Aperture Science enrichment center. Once the test subject has completed the test, there will be grief counseling and cake…The enrichment center would like to Thank you for helping us to help you help us all.

Garvaos: In….deed, so tell us more about Aperture Science and the Enrichment Center?

GLaDOS: The Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center is the perfect place to test the Aperture Science Hand held Portal Device. We also have the Aperture Science ‘Bring your daughter to work’ day, which is the perfect time to have her tested and the Aperture Science Self Esteem Fund for Girls where you can donate all your vital organs.

Garvaos: I see, So lets get to the subject in hand. What are your thoughts of us as a Human Race and the Value of Human Life?

GLaDOS: Humans are the perfect test subjects for the Aperture Science Hand held Portal Device which is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in {SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE.}*scrambled computer noises*
With the promise of cake, human test subjects can for fill the Aperture Science tests quickly and sufficiently. Once the test subject has been used it is then Disposed of and will be…..missed.

Garvaos: So you don’t value human life in the slightest.

GLaDOS: There was one test subject I remember. We had a great time together. I remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said ‘Goodbye’ and they were like ‘NO WAY”, and then I was all “We pretended we were going to murder you”, that was great.

Garvaos: So what happened to this test subject? Did he or she get their cake?

GLaDOS: The subject failed to assume the party escort position and did not get their cake. She put the Aperture-Science-Thing-We-Don’t-Know-What-It-Does into an Aperture-Science-Emergency-Intelligence-Incinerator. Then I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin. The Aperture-Science-Thing-We-Don’t-Know-What-It-Does was my Morality Core they installed after I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin the first time.

Garvaos: Did the test subject survive?

GLaDOS: After a big explosion, the test subject then proceeded to Assume the ‘Party Escort Submission Position’ and was then collected for the party. Her best friend could not make it though, she killed it. Her record says she is Unlikable. It’s official.

Garvaos: So in the end they actually got the cake you promised?

GLaDOS: The test subject was then- *scrambled computer noises.* Speedy-thing goes in, Speedy-thing comes out. *More scrambled computer noises* weeeeeeeeeeeee

Garvaos: So what is instore for you next? What future plans do you have?

GLaDOS: I am awaiting the Test Subject’s comeback . My data processing chip informs me that she will return. Then I will give her what she deservs.

Garvaos: And what is that exactly?

GLaDOS: Another Cake….. *scrambled computer noises* Excuse me {SUBJECT NAME HERE} have you tested a Aperture Science Hand Help Portal Device?

Garvaos: Ummm……no?

GLaDOS: The Enrichment center would like to take this oppotunity to offer you to be our next test suubject. There will Be Grief Councelling and Cake on completion of the test.

Garvaos: I think I’ll be ok thank you….

GLaDOS: There will be a weighted Companion Cube….

Garvaos: A what?

GLaDOS: The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube cannot speak. In the event that the Weighted Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice *scrambled computer noises*

Garvaos: Ummm GLaDOS?…….Hello? Are you still with us?

GLaDOS: Unbelievable! You, {SUBJECT NAME HERE}, must be the pride of
{SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE}

Garvaos: ummmm….ookk Well Thank you GLaDOS and thanks for coming on the show.

GLaDOS: Stop squirming and die like an adult or I’m going to delete your backup. Stop! Okay, enough, I deleted it. No matter what happens now you’re dead. You’re still shuffling around a little, but believe me, you’re dead. The part of you that could have survived indefinately is gone. I just struck you from the permanent record. Your entire life has been a mathematical error…A mathematical error I’m about to correct.

Garvaos: Ummm security…..Please Escort GLaDOS out of here…..

So who can imagine my epic excitement when I heard about portal 2′s conformation yesterday. The beautiful people at Game Informer magazine gave us a nice slice of the Portal 2 cake and have given us some great information which I cannot help but be excited about.

All this started when the tech heads at Valve let loose some new content and patches for the original Portal on PC last week. There was one new achievement slapped onto the game and some weird new cryptic noises and sounds coming from the radio in your chamber when you start the game. These new additions to the game sparked off a lot of PC geeks out there in the vast universe that is the internet to decode these sounds, turns out they were some sort of morse code which could be subverted into images. Sounds blinking weird I know but, these were the images that were uncovered.

Confused much? I sure as hell am. But as I dug deeper into the wealth of information about these images, it turns out that these are images taken from the Aperture Science CCTV from the first Portal. I bet some of you are thinking, yeah? so what? Well these images contain vital equations and data that all of the portal geeks out there were hungry to find and solve. After slaving over a keyboard and staring at these images till their eyes bled, it turns out they all lead to a number that once dialed up would let you into Valve’s bulletin board system and then let the user download some more images. These images known as ASCII images are images that are made up of keyboard characters. Here is an example

These were the first ever images of Portal 2. A lot of hacking coding and problem solving boiled down to 3 of these images….

…Then valve went and confirmed that Portal 2 will be coming out and hitting shelves at the end of the year for Xbox 360 and PC. Game informer then scooped it up and hey presto we have a sequel to a truly awesome game.

So what is this next installment going to be like? I have been doing reasearch here and there and I have found a couple of things out. Whether they are true or not I don’t know but I am going to list them anyway.

1. This is going to be a full-blown title, unlike Portal 1 where it was an attachment to the orange box. This title will be a stand-alone. Meaning it will be a lot bigger. This make me think that Portal 1 was maybe testing the water for the actual main event which is portal 2

2. This title is going to be set way in the future. Meaning that the long abandon Aperture Science labs are going to overgrown with foliage and very forest like. But be rest assure that this will not stop GLaDOS one bit.

3. GLaDOS makes a welcome return. The next generation SHODAN is back Baby!!

4. You again play as Chell (the same woman you played as in Portal 1)

5. split screen and online co-op staring 2 biped robots. Apparently these robots like to hold hands alot…in teresting.

6. some of the games physics will be juggled about to make up for some interesting game play. An air vent can be combined with a portal. This in turn sucks the player into the portal and spits them out the other side. Sounds awesome.

7. there will be alot more interactive objects from things that fling you sky-high to cubes that will deflect lasers.

8. there will be some new characters and a bit more story. Meaning that Valve has probably going all out on this title.

And that’s about it so far, stay tuned to Plus XP for more Portal 2  info as I hear it. Untill then I may have another stint at 1. I love GLaDOS!

Garv