Valve has released its long-awaited Portal 2 game for Mac, PC, PS3 and Xbox.
"Portal 2, " the critically acclaimed shooter-puzzle game, debuted alongside a much-anticipated game-download service called Steam.
The game is not perfect, and honestly does have more overt flaws than say, Portal 2.
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Skyrim, Mass Effect 3, Portal 2, LA Noire, Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3.
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The singular best example of storytelling through gameplay is another FPS, Portal 2.
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Sometimes a great plot and fantastic gameplay come together as one, an honor I would give to Deus Ex: Human Revolution or Portal 2.
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When it came to the eye-tracking iteration of Portal 2, the new controls apparently worked well, but also necessitated separating aiming and viewpoint to ensure it worked.
Unfortunately, it was strictly a hands-off situation at the booth -- we could only look on with jealousy as the Razer rep played through some gorgeous Portal 2 level.
Needless to say, they decided to scrap that plan and build the puzzle mechanics of Portal 2 with the same basic mechanic as the original and layer new mechanics on top.
It was time, naturally, to move onto bigger and better things -- and when your boss tells you he wants nothing more than a real-life Weighted Companion Cube from Portal 2, you begrudgingly concede.
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Mike Ambinder is the company's very own experimental psychologist and he's been outlining some of Valve's work with biofeedback technology, including eye-motion controls for Portal 2 and perspiration-based gaming adjustments on Left 4 Dead.
Sony's slowness at warning customers is particularly damaging because it comes just as new versions of high-profile games such as Mortal Kombat and Portal 2 are being released for both the PlayStation and its rival, Microsoft's Xbox 360.
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For example, our global, single-instance ERP system runs 53 country payrolls on the SAP ERP Human Capital Management solution and our SAP NetWeaver Portal supports over 2 million members of the SAP Community Network.
Besides serving as the portal to access the Smart Touch 2.0 user interface, the TL34HD's three-inch hVGA LCD screen can be used to compose one's shots and review images in stunning resolution with 460K pixels.
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Years ago in the pre-Web 2.0 era a well-known news portal ran an experiment on its home page.
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The system operates through a downloadable Delphi smartphone app, available for Android 2.2 and later and Apple iOS 5.0 and later devices, as well as a Delphi Web portal that is compatible with Internet Explorer 7 and later, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Firefox browsers.
Recently published data by the Lund Report indicates that Kaiser patients enrolled in their patient portal, which includes secure messaging with doctors, access to clinical data, and self-service transactions, are 2.6 times more likely to stay with the organization than those who are do not participate online (see more on avoiding system leakage in ACOs here).
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