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• It features a guest appearance by Sara Quin, of Tegan and Sara fame
• There's a theremin solo, performed by theremin virtuoso Dorit Chrysler
• We probably won't get to hear it until Jonathan Coulton's new album drops in 2013
• John Flansburgh is producing it! John freaking Flansburgh.

Valve Software sure do make videos good. They’ve done just that for Portal 2, several times now. And now there is more of it! I don’t know where they get their ideas from. A book, probably.

The “Turret� video is below. (more…)

Further investment opportunities in Aperture Science have become available, in a second advert from the innovative corporation ahead of the release of their documentary video game Portal 2. This one offers a chance to invest in trustworthy robots.

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Aperture Science’s documentary video game, Portal 2, is with us on the 19th April. In the interim the applied sciences company is releasing a series of videos advertising investment opportunities. The first of these is below. Valve’s president Gabe Newell says of these new opportunities,

“Portal 2 is the best documentary-style investment opportunity game we’ve ever contributed to and we’re confident that savvy investors will immediately see the value in these product demonstration videos.”

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Destroy your DVR . You wouldn't want to risk fast forwarding through this.

Valve decided to make their own TV commercial for Portal 2. This was because, said marketing VP Doug Lombardi, “We’ve had many creative kick-off meetings with agencies over the years, and you’d be shocked by the treatments that have come back. Copycat treatments. Cliché treatments. Treatments that reveal the agency wasn’t listening in the initial meeting.” So instead Valve opted to make their own advertisment, in an eight week project.

It’s cute. And embedded below. The game is out in the 21st of April. (more…)