Portal 2 Delayed; No Cake Until Next Year
By Tim Hage on Jun 9th, 2010 at 2:10PM
It seemed too perfect for the game to actually release on the first date we were given by Valve, but that doesn’t make this announcement any less rage-inducing. Valve announced today that their upcoming sequel, Portal 2, will miss its original October 2010 release date and will hit shelves sometime next year. Read their entertaining press release after the break.
VALVE ANNOUNCES MAKING GAMES IS HARD
June 9, 2010 — Aperture Science, doing business as Aperture Laboratories LLC, in partnership with Valve today announced the successful completion of an ethics-review-panel-supervised release date restructuring process. Portal 2, the sequel to the ground-breaking title that earned over 30 Game of the Year awards despite missing its original ship date, is now targeted for a 2011 release.
Representatives from both companies acknowledged that public safety concerns factored into the decision. They went on to say that even though Portal 2 will arrive slightly later than planned, all life on earth won’t instantaneously stop as every molecule in your body explodes at the speed of light, which is what would happen should a rip ever appear in the fabric of Valve Time.
“Also, the game will be even better,” they added, missing a historic opportunity to create the first product delay press release to mention that a product is being delayed to make it worse.
via [Big Download]
