With the world watching everything Valve does these days, we all await the final confirmation that we’ll see the return of legendary franchise Half-Life.

With the world watching everything Valve does these days, we all await the final confirmation that we’ll see the return of legendary franchise Half-Life.

A few weeks ago I got a chance to meet Alesia Glidewell, a writer/director, voice actress, motion capture actress and the face of Portal’s Chell in person. Now, when I say the face I of Chell I mean just that. When I began talking to her it was quite a bizzare expereince at first as sitting across from me was the face of Chell, the face I’ve seen so many times through using two portals in a corner of a room. Well, that bizzaren-ness passed and soon had a blast getting to know Alesia. However, as stated before Alesia is much more than just the face of Chell. She came across as an extremely creative person that, while directing might be her true love when it comes to work, has an admiration and skill for a whole slew of jobs.

Aren’t you happy you bought it? Portal 2 is Ireland’s number one game at the moment – beating Mortal Kombat and Operation Flashpoint: Red River to the top spot. Big drops this week include Crysis 2 and Homefront while games like the classics version of Batman: Arkham Asylum is climbing slowly. Can Portal 2 retain top spot for another week? Oh we think so.

Were you watching the Aperture Science countdown we covered earlier? We were and it finally hit 00:00:00. The reveal? Well not what you think

The internet is going seriously nuts about this – and now it’s your turn. Valve have added a mysterious countdown timer to the Valve ARG

Valve have released a new Portal 2 trailer today which really, really, tries to sell us turrets (we were sold long ago). The trailer is quirky and full

We recently covered the rumour that Valve were poised to release news about a possible PS3 & PC cross-over with Portal 2 – and we can now confirm it. Announcing

I’m sure the title scared the hell outta’ you, I know,…what a mean thing to do. EA have announced today that Portal is delayed from the 18th April until the

Yes we are pumped for this but what a let-down the Portal 2 VGA reveal turned out to be. Showing nothing but CG, there’s a distinct lack of gameplay and

Take a look at these awesome Portal 2 screens from Pax thanks to Kotaku. Mainly focusing on the co-op mode – Valve have created

Accoring to Gameinformer, Portal 2 will appear February 9th 2011. Now, whether it will appear out of the Blue or Orange Portal is anyone’s guess

Leading on from last weeks interview with Merle Dandridge who played Alyx Vance in Half Life 2 I proudly present two Valve related interviews this week . I had a chance to chat with both John Patrick Lowrie, who plays the Snip in Team Fortress 2, and Ellen McLain, who plays GlaDOS in Portal. Enjoy.

When we played Half-life 2 one thing was apparent: Valve can instill real almost palpable life into inanimate objects. Take DOG for example, a massive robot with the heart of gold. We

Eurogamer have posted a video of Portal 2 (from E3 it seems) that shows some of the type of work you can expect to be ahead of you. The game set standards for puzzle based objectives but by coupling this with the