{"id":5577,"date":"2010-03-12T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"portal-2-is-the-best-thing-we-ve-ever-done-says-valve-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5577-portal-2-is-the-best-thing-we-ve-ever-done-says-valve-boss","title":{"rendered":"Portal 2 &quot;is the best thing we\u2019ve ever done&quot; says Valve boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following developer Valve&#8217;s announcement this week that it is currently working on a sequel to much loved platformer Portal, studio boss Gabe newell has come forward with his opinion on the release.<\/p>\n<p>During a conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3178323\" target=\"_blank\">1Up <\/a>Newell described the release as &ldquo;the best game we&#8217;ve ever done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although it&rsquo;s not finished yet Newell claims that &#8220;it&#8217;s pretty clear, just internally&#8221; that Portal 2 is bound to be a Valve classic.<\/p>\n<p>Although few details regarding the game have yet been released, it has been confirmed that it will be &#8220;a stand-alone, full-price retail release&#8221; with &#8220;new gameplay mechanics, storyline, and some surprising new twists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Valve has also confirmed that Portal 2 will be released &#8220;this coming holiday season&rdquo; and that it may feature a co operative gameplay mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabe Newell waxes lyrical over unfinished Portal sequel<\/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-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","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=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}