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Portal 2 Trailer & New Category at Spike VGAs

Rob Keyes of Game Rant writes: "This year’s annual Spike Video Game Awards airs this Saturday and while many high profile games have been rumored and speculated to make a big splash, we are now able to confirm one of them.

Valve’s eagerly anticipated Portal 2 will in fact, be premiering a new trailer at the VGAs and if that’s not all, we’re also able to exclusively report that a brand new category for “Character of the Year” will also be part of this year’s show."

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bluexy4927d ago

Only four characters nominated for the "Character of the Year"? Where's Alan Wake, Commander Shepard, or any of the Noble Team?

SMOK3xFFx4927d ago (Edited 4927d ago )

Yeah, Noble 6, Alan and Shepard would have been good choices but so are Ezio, Kratos and John Marston.

As for Sgt. Woods, Reznov should take this spot.

"Freedom for you Mason not for me!"

TheLastGuardian4927d ago (Edited 4927d ago )

Sly Cooper is my favorite character who had a game come out this year but since It's the VGA's we know he won't get nominated so I say John Marston or Kratos should win. Also RDR should win GOTY and GOWIII is my runner up.

TOO PAWNED4927d ago

Known Game Reveals:
-New BioWare Game (Mass Effect Spinoff?)
-Batman: Arkham City
-Resistance 3
-Volition/Del Toro Lovecraftian Horror Action RPG
-Gears of War (Kinect?)
-"Murder Your Maker" (Prototype 2?)
-Thor
-Portal new trailer
Possible Game Reveals:
-Saints Row 3

Rumored Game Reveals:
-Uncharted 3
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So that is 10 games, 3 left, wtf.

Dirk Benedict4927d ago

Portal 2. best on the PC. however, for consoles, it would be best on The PlayStation 3.

Drink it right down and have seconds.

SpartanPrince4927d ago

Admittedly i havent played the other games on the list so they may be better options(i hear alot of good things about John Marston) but theres just something about Kratos. Most people just say that he's just an angry jerk and a killing machine but he's so much more than that. The only games where he was really like that was in GoW2 but then again he had a reason for that. He was tricked into getting killed by Zeus. But for the emotion that Kratos showed towards Pandora at the end of GoW3, i definitely say Kratos

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Steam Account Transfer Via Will on Death is Not Permitted, Valve Confirms

In case you were curious, a Steam account transfer via will is not permitted according to an official response from Valve.

anast6d ago

The games are theirs. People just pay to ride the ride.

Skuletor5d ago

Would be nice if the article's writer looked into and reported whether other digital game libraries could be transferred over via will (Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, EGS, EA app, GOG, Ubisoft Connect, Rockstar Launcher etc) instead of this half-baked piece but it's probably the same for all of them anyway

Kornholic5d ago

This seems like a way bigger issue than mandatory PSN account linking for PlayStation games.

So where is the outcry?

Skuletor5d ago

It's not like PlayStation is doing any different.

"You may not sell, buy, trade, or transfer your Online ID, Account or any personal access to PSN Services through any means or method, including by use of web sites."
https://www.playstation.com...

Kornholic4d ago

So you are that saying Steam is being very anti consumer with its policies. That's why I'm so baffled by the lack of outcry from the PC audience.

NotoriousWhiz5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

It's not like your account just stops working when you die. Include your email, account id, and password in the will (including the password to your email) and your survivors should have no problem using your games.

anast5d ago

PC gamers are a different lot. They don't mind renting their games forever, they don't mind spending money on overpriced equipment, and they don't mind fiddling with settings for hours before they even play the game, but linking a PSN account demands a riot. This is hard to understand, but then again, we all have to draw our lines somewhere.

Skuletor5d ago

You sure talk a lot of nonsense.Go look up the percentage of digital sales compared to physical sales of PS5 games, then tell me again about "renting" games.

mandf5d ago

Overblown funny and 100percent true

anast5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

There is no option at all to buy a physical copy of a PC game... And more people game on consoles for the reasons that make PC gamers a different lot.

VIK21215d ago

it's not so much the linking but the fact that certain countries aren't allowed to access psn...

VIK21215d ago

@anast I have a disc ps5 since launch, initially I bought some disc games, but I can't be bothered to walk to a physical store nowadays... I just buy the titles when they go on special sale or gray market store like CDKeys...

DustMan5d ago

PSN was a different story altogether. It kept people who bought the game from playing in countries that PSN wasn't supported. I never understood the issue anyway.

I don't know if PC stuff is overpriced considering that you can buy a new video card with the same amount of money you'd spend over 5 or 6 years paying to play games online with a console. I'll never pay double to use the same connection. That is what I'll never understand about console gamers. "let me pay an extra hundred & twenty dollars a year to use the same internet I pay for monthly and use on literally every device in my home for free....except for my Playstation"

Extermin8or3_5d ago

@Skuletor about 50-60% of sales are digital for most games. Meaning 40-50% are physical....

anast5d ago

@VIK

You might not but you are not the expectation that creates a universal.

Skuletor5d ago

@Extermin8or3_
Right and where are you getting that information from?
https://www.statista.com/st...

@anast

"Renting games"
In the fourth fiscal quarter of 2023, approximately 77 percent of Sony Corporation's PlayStation gaming sales were generated via digital downloads.

"overpriced equipment"
Some people are willing to pay a premium for better performance, the way you keep talking about the PS5 Pro on N4G proves you're a hypocrite in that regard but whatever, lol

"fiddling with settings for hours before they even play the game"
Most pc games will give the option to scan your system to choose recommended settings or start with moderate settings that will run the game fine but you're free to mess around at your own leisure, to improve performance or quality if you wish to. For those that don't want to, there's free software that can do that for you, such as Nvidia's Geforce or AMD's AMD Catalyst. Geforce Experience even gives you the option of choosing whether to prioritize performance vs image quality with a simple slider for easy optimization, it's not rocket science, like you try make it out to be.

"linking a PSN account demands a riot"
Playstation selling Helldivers 2 in regions without the legal means to create a PSN account by Sony's own standards, then telling people in those regions that already bought the game that they can no longer play the game, isn't a cause for concern? Though you've already heard about that but keep going along with your own narrative because of your weird vendetta against PC on here.

This is hard to understand, but then again, we all have to draw our lines somewhere.

PRIMORDUS4d ago

I don't rent I torrent to keep, if they take them down that's ok I don't care I have them LOL. I do buy PC games but very little as I want full control which is why I torrent to keep them in my collection, and I do not give a fuck what the devs or publishers want. I never did never will.

anast4d ago

@DustMan

Just like you can choose play games on low to barely mid settings for the price of a PS5, you can also choose not to game online on the PS5. So, now you are getting a better gaming experience and not paying extra for online.

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thorstein5d ago

So just give your progeny the passwords.

OtterX5d ago

Keep the password sealed in the Will, only to be opened after death. :)

Aphrodia5d ago

Right? How are they gonna know you are dead?

FinalFantasyFanatic5d ago

The only way they will know is when an account is active for 300 years, lol.

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Unannounced Valve 6v6 Shooter MOBA Footage Leaked

ESTNN writes: "A leak for Valve's 6v6 3rd-person shooter MOBA has supposedly been released ahead of time. And if the reports are true, fans of the genre have much to be excited for."

XiNatsuDragnel12d ago

Deadlock looks like bioshock and Moba had babies

JunonZanon11d ago

Valve really cannot count to 3.

Number1TailzFan10d ago

They should've had a new L4D like 10 years ago, it can be expanded upon a lot more but they just left it collecting dust.. it was a good game for its time but L4D2 doesn't have nearly enough content these days to keep players engaged, and it needs a serious graphics upgrade

mastershredder10d ago

Nice bend at the knee there Gabe. Seriously? A quirky character arena shooter? This late into the me-too-shooter market? I thought you guys were so much better than that crap. Gabe must need a bigger yacht.

kitano194710d ago

clown comment, valve are famous for letting their devs work on whatever they want as they have no share holders to please. hence why we rarely get games from valve but when we do they generally are great.

icefrog, the original modder who created dota on warcraft 3 is working on this with some other members at valve.

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Steam's highest-rated game is now less than a dollar in the Spring Sale

Jack writes: "Yet again browsing the latest offers in the Steam Spring Sale has led us to track down the very best. In terms of price to quality, we don’t think that it gets much better than this. Portal 2 is now less than a dollar, and if you haven’t got it already, now is the time to pick it up."

TheEroica76d ago

Portal deserves to be one of steams highest rated games... It's almost tetris levels of perfect game design.

TheEnigma31375d ago

It's a great game, but highly overrated. But for $1, it's an amazon deal.

Friendlygamer75d ago

Valve should bring their games to ps5

Kados75d ago (Edited 75d ago )

Gotta love Steam. Just got Portal 2 for .97 cents CAD. Should have been $1.29, selected the bundle with Portal 1 and 2, which gets a 25% discount, already have Portal 1, so it removes the cost of that, and still applies the full 25% bundle discount to Portal 2. 90% + 25% discount.

Friendlygamer74d ago

That's sweet, I've been thinking about building a modest pc to play some oldies