Yep. Portal is great.
I finally got around to playing Portal... and I will now join the chorus of supportalers. It's short, it's clever, it's got high production values, it's got a kick-ass theme song. Everybody who comes to our house will be required to play it at some point.
Seeing as I got Orange Box PS3 for like $15, it remains to be seen if I'll even bother playing the other games on the disk.
Rock Band 2 just may include the Rock Band 1 songlist for free.
This is still unsubstantiated, but an editor at IGN 360 says that the entire on-disk songlist of RB1 will be made available as a free download to owners of RB2. Heck, I'd even accept a nominal fee for that ability, but free is hard to ignore.
If this turns out to be false speculation, that 360 guy will be universally proclaimed a huge douchebag.
Download-only Siren coming on disk in Japan.
I want to check this out, but the concept of downloadable episodes kinda makes me worry about filling up my PS3. In Japan, Siren: Blood Curse will also get a regular blu-ray release. And word is, Siren will have an English option from the get-go, making this super-easy to import (Japan and US are the same blu-ray region.) Having the game all at one shot, without sludging the HD, makes me think this will be worth the usual $10 import markup.
Got Wii Fit cockblocked.
It's so crazy. I don't even really want Wii Fit, I just want to check it out (and I bet Clark will dig it.) But I can't find it anywhere. I got a hot tip from my sister that Toys R Us was getting them in this morning, so we ambled into TRU just after opening to find a huge Wii line. Turns out they were handing out Wii tickets early in the morning (still!) and the people in line for Wiis also snapped up the Wii Fits.
My TRU only received twenty copies of Wii Fit, and about ninety Wiis. Hey Nintendo. You might want to start making more fucking Balance Boards. You can't just ship out twenty at a time and call it a day. There's no dignity to this anymore.
No trouble with 2.40.
After playing Portal until 2am, I got the notice that PS3 2.40 was ready... and I let it download and install while I was asleep, that's how confident I was. Apparently some systems coughed all over the update, so Sony pulled it less than a day later. Mine is fine, so I'm enjoying the [super slow] in-game XMB and my [complete lack of] trophies. I kinda hope they hook it up so you can display your PSN Profile card on personal webpages, like, ahem, you can with your 360 Gamercard.
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Hey, it's Molyneaux. I have a Wii Fit. If you're interested in trying it out, you should come on over after I move in with Josh and give it a try.