The voice of GLaDOS in Portal and Portal II is Ellen McLain. While not being awesome as a voice actor in Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 or Portal, Ellen McLain is an opera singer. I’ve not found it easy to dig up samples of Ellen McLain singing. I’m sure people search for McLain’s music but […]
Can GLaDOS the potato-borg survive forever?
Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System? Potato? Potatoborg? Obvious Winner had an obvious winner when one of their readers, David, sent in some photos of the potato-powered portal menance. This powerful potato home was made from scrap but it irrigates and positively ionizes the water. There is one system for an air pump at the […]
Real life Portal demo
This short little chunk of theatre performance gets A+ for effort. Not sure if it ranks that highly for impact but I really enjoyed it. It was performed by the Ninja of the Night cosplay group at Fanime 2011. Did you know there was even such as thing as a cosplay group? I didn’t. Geek […]
Portal 2: Personality Spheres
Finished with Portal 2 yet? You could do yourself a favour and check out Chris Myles’ Flickr account for photographs for some rather awesome Portal 2 Sphere goodies. There’s the Hello Kitty Sphere, for one, but for this teaser I wanted to showcase his collection of personality spheres. These are all handmade which, I think, […]
Sony Song: Still Alive versus PSN
You must know Still Alive from the end of Portal. Imagine if you’ve bought Portal 2, really want to play it on Sony’s PSN… ouch, some of you are in that situation. You can’t. Not while PSN is down. That’s the first reason why this song is clever. I think the other reason is clever […]
Weebl: For Science, You Monster
It looks like they got some science on them! Let’s turn to Weebl and Bob to help us stay in the Portal zone. Did you know the turrets were in a band called Radio Head? Weebl’s in it too. Sure. There’s a band with a similar name but I’m not sure which one came first. […]
Interactive Plush Portal Turret
The turrets in Portal are cute. This is known. Hurray to Leigh Nunan (plushie designer) and Jonathan Guberman (electronics dude) for the interactive plushie Portal turret. I think this might send the wrong message. In this video the turret gets knocked over a few times. Who would do that to the poor turrets? You’re supposed […]
The song at the end of Portal 2
Mini-spoiler alert. I suppose if you’re super sensitive to spoilers then you’d consider this post one. We’re here today, class, to feature the song from the end of Portal 2. The spoiler? It’s from the end of the game. The end! Actually, heck, let’s feature a whole load of songs and make the song at […]
Portal 2: Boots video
Turns out that Cave Johnson is willing to admit that there is a reproducible human error problem with the portal device. It’s all due to the way humans tend to land badly, especially from great heights, and the resulting damage that can occur to the portal generator. Needless to say, in order to protect the […]
Portal 2: Cave Johnson versus Mantis Men army
In 1953 Cave Johnson founded Aperture Science in order to make shower curtains for the American military. After becoming less than sane due a serious dose of mercury poisoning in 1978 he changed direction… the result being man sized quantum tunnels through space (ideal for stopping water spilling out of the shower). Turns out – […]
