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Portal 2 Gets Release Date 110

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday August 19, 2010 @01:58AM from the it's-been-a-long-time dept.

AndrewGOO9 writes "After what has seemed like an eternity since Valve initially announced a sequel to their lauded puzzle title Portal, a release date has finally been attached to the game. Originally slated to be released before the end of the year in time for the holidays, Valve instead opted to delay the game, citing reasons such as, 'making games is hard' as well as continuing their tradition of releasing games when they're finished as opposed to rushing them out the door. Either way, mark your calendars for February 9th, 2011, and in the meantime, brush up on thinking with portals." There's some new gameplay footage available, and Valve announced that Stephen Merchant will be lending his voice to the game.

How the LSB Keeps Linux One Big Happy Family 171

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 22, 2008 @05:22PM from the behave-or-i'll-turn-this-distro-around-right-now dept.

blackbearnh writes "The Linux Standard Base is the grand attempt to create a binary-level interface that application developers can use to create software which will run on any distribution of Linux. Theodore Tso, who helps maintain the LSB, talked recently with O'Reilly News about what the LSB does behind the scenes, how it benefits ISVs and end users, and what the greatest challenges left on the plate are. 'One of the most vexing problems has been on the desktop where the Open Source community has been developing new desktop libraries faster than we can standardize them. And also ISVs want to use those latest desktop libraries even though they may not be stable yet and in some ways that's sort of us being a victim of our own success. The LSB desktop has been getting better and better and despite all the jokes that for every year since I don't know probably five years ago, every year has been promoted as the year of the Linux desktop. The fact of the matter is the Linux desktop has been making gains very, very quickly but sometimes as a result of that some of the bleeding edge interfaces for the Linux desktop haven't been as stable as say the C library. And so it's been challenging for ISVs because they want to actually ship products that will work across a wide range of Linux distributions and this is one of the places where the Linux upstream sources haven't stabilized themselves.'"

Comment Re:Patience? (Score 1) 622

by Po6oT on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @04:10AM (#24381747) Attached to: Have Modern Gamers Lost the Patience For Puzzles?

Having played some games with insane puzzles, e.g Myst. Games that are too easy flummox me. I'm always expecting the worst. So when I encounter a "puzzle" in a game, I am taking notes - only to discover that, multiple saves later, all I had to do was pull those 2 levers to open the door - not set the right combination, etc. It's like those multiple choice questions, where I know the answer is B, but hang on, this is meant to be a test, right? - It's a trap!!! and I wonder why I do so badly at tests...

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