{"id":11472,"date":"2011-04-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"is-portal-2-valve-s-last-real-single-player-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11472-is-portal-2-valve-s-last-real-single-player-game","title":{"rendered":"Is Portal 2 Valve\u2019s last real single-player game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Portal 2&rsquo;s more unexpected additions is its co-op campaign &ndash; and it might well be an indicator of where Valve&rsquo;s headed for future game projects.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s according to GameTrailers&rsquo; Geoff Keighley, who writes in his iOS app-based article The Final Hours of Portal 2 that, &ldquo;[The game] will probably be Valve&#8217;s last game with an isolated single-player experience.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He later clarified the comment on his <a href=\"http:\/\/thefinalhoursofportal2.com\/blog\/finalhours\/welcometotheblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> over the weekend, saying that this was no random speculation on his part, but, &ldquo;This is coming from Valve, although I don&rsquo;t have a lot more to share other than what is in the story. I agree it&rsquo;s a provocative statement, especially given the amazing single player storyline in Portal 2.&nbsp; Keep in mind Valve said &lsquo;probably&rsquo;, so I get the feeling that this could change.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While it seems a somewhat unlikely scenario (Half-Life: Episode 3, etc.), it&rsquo;s possible Valve means they won&rsquo;t be putting out any more games without a multiplayer feature of some sort.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cake and grief counselling will probably not be available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}