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What the Hell Is Going On With Aperture Science? [UPDATE]

Posted on Friday, April 15 @ 09:27:51 Eastern by

With the Portal 2 ARG coming to a close, it's not surprising that Valve would put the collective gaming public in a huge spin. That appears to be what's happening right now.

Some individuals are saying that Portal 2's early release depends on the number of hours spent playing games from the Potato Sack, a collective of indie games released through Steam. Others are simply stating the obvious: The apocalypse is upon us.

Me? When I head to aperturescience.com, the source for all this absurdity, I get this happy holiday scene. Where are you in the grand scheme of things?

UPDATE:

So maybe there's something to the whole potato sack conspiracy? Apparently aperturescience.com/glados@home shows a list of CPUs currently running games in Valve's Potato Sack Bundle. If you've got Defense Grid: The Awakening, Killing Floor, Cogs, Rush, Toki Tori, Bit.Trip BEAT, 1... 2... 3... Kick It!, Audiosurf, The Wonderful End of the World, Super Meat Boy, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, AAAAAA!!!!, or The Ball try booting one or several of them up to help GLaDOS wake up!

Not that it matters anyway.... Damn PS3 preorder....
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  • negusma
    negusma

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Apr 15th, 2011 at 9:45 am
    the sites
  • negusma
    negusma

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Apr 15th, 2011 at 9:46 am
    ah, it removed the url. no matter... after the aperturescience com address put /glados@home/
  • 213EDD
    213EDD

    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Apr 15th, 2011 at 9:47 am
    @danielrbischoff they are trying to "release portal 2 early" by having people play the potato sack and the link daniel is aperaturescience then /glados@home/ for the stats
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Apr 15th, 2011 at 10:03 am
    @negusma, 213EDD: Yup! Saw that and updated the post!
  • Wickedcarny
    Wickedcarny

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Apr 15th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
    LOL what a smart way for Valve to make more money selling a bunch of Indie Games. Im sure they would have sold TONS more potato packs if they said it would release portal 2 early.

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