Jon Prusik, Albotas’ go-to CSS wizard, has released his handy new online tool, Steam Gauge. Using the Steam Web API, the Python-based web app pulls data from your profile and spits out the storage space needed to install your complete library, along with the value of the collection. Check it out here.
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Buy: Official Portal Weighted Companion Cube Plush
ThreeA Toys showed off these gorgeous prototypes of the robotic duo from one of my personal favorite games of the past decade, Portal 2. No word on price or release date, but we’ll keep you posted.
Check it: More awesome Portal posts
Buy: Blindboxed Sentry Turret minifigures
![When Gordon Met Chell [VIDEO]
What if after Chell escaped Aperture Laboratories at the end of Portal 2 she ran into Gordon Freeman from Half-Life? This fan film by Michael Shanks teams the two silent heroes up for an epic battle against the forces of evil. Watch as they kill things with portals and gravity. For science!
And here’s a sweet poster for the short film:](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mby4dfEtFw1qbg80vo1_1280.jpg)
What if after Chell escaped Aperture Laboratories at the end of Portal 2 she ran into Gordon Freeman from Half-Life? This fan film by Michael Shanks teams the two silent heroes up for an epic battle against the forces of evil. Watch as they kill things with portals and gravity. For science!
And here’s a sweet poster for the short film:
(Source: kotaku.com)
Just kidding, no one died. Yet.
Weta Workshop, the New Zealand based prop house most known for their work on the Lord of the Rings movies, gifted Valve this life-size, animatronic, talking, targeting turret from the Portal games.
Lookit.
And here’s a video of the Sentry Turret in motion-detecting action.
I don’t think I’m alone in needing a small army of these for my front yard.
Buy: Portal 2 PotatOS Science Kit
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(Source: theverge.com)
A Little Bit on the SteamPortal Side: If Tesla was the art director of Portal, the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device would look like. It was created by DeviantArt user, batman-n-bananas.
[Obvious Winner via technabob]
(Source: batman-n-bananas.deviantart.com)
Welcome to the first installment of the ALBOTAS Weekend Film Fest, where I’ll be rounding up the latest in amazing trailers, fan films, shorts, etc. I’ll also be posting some classics that just need to be seen again. I wasn’t looking for a specific theme this week, but one did come about organically. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
A Little Bit On The Left 4 Dead Side: This is a trailer for an upcoming Left 4 Dead fan film by Airsoft GI. While it’s a little light on the action side, you can get glimpses of this project’s potential. Hell, it already looks better than that Left 4 Dead porno that came out a couple years back.
(Via Kotaku)
(Source: youtu.be)
Enjoy 21 minutes behind the scenes of the greatest fictional science lab of all time.
(via Kotaku)
Ack! Two Portal posts in one day! I promise not to make this a habit, but this is just too damn awesome.
Dan Trachtenberg from The Totally Rad Show has beein directing commercials for a few years now, but I’m thinking this short homage to the Portal series just became his quick ticket to movie directing. And if not, I’m sure we can rally up enough geeks to burn down Hollywood until they see things our way.
[Via /Film]
Gamescom Trailer for DotA 2 is Live
Valve just showed this off on their Dota 2 facebook page, and I have to say I’m impressed. I have to wonder how well it will do against Dota clone heavyweights League of Legends and Heroes of Newerth, though. If you’re interested, be sure to check out the Dota 2 website later this week for The International Dota 2 Championships taking place at Gamescom in Germany, where Valve is giving out a $1,000,000 grand prize.
Ladies’ Night
Botjira re-imagines Team Fortress 2’s Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy, Engineer, Medic, Sniper, and Spy as pin-up style ladies.
The long awaited Meet the Medic video for Team Fortress 2 is finally out. Not only does that mean a new update, but the game is officially forever Free to Play and will continue to make Valve money through microtransactions. Also if you pay attention during the part with all the soldiers, you can see a Rocket from the Chinese TF2 ripoff Final Combat.
Get it here!
Hey everybody. TF2 is free to play all week in anticipation for the Meet the Medic update! So If you don’t already own it, click here and sign up for steam and install the game to start playing! If you like what you play the game’s only $10 once the free week is over.
You can now buy your very own Aperture Science Interactive Gels! Repulsion Gel, Propulsion Gel, and Conversion Gel are all available over at ThinkGeek.com for $14.99 per can or you can get all three for $39.99.
(via Nerd Approved)
![Dear Albotians,
Since Valve is a bunch of righteous peeps, they’re giving away the first volume of the Portal 2 soundtrack, [Songs To Test By]. There’s also six songs that they made short ringtone versions of, so yeah. Go grab that ish right HERE.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lls2cvsazg1qbg80vo1_400.jpg)
Dear Albotians,
Since Valve is a bunch of righteous peeps, they’re giving away the first volume of the Portal 2 soundtrack, [Songs To Test By]. There’s also six songs that they made short ringtone versions of, so yeah. Go grab that ish right HERE.
