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Portal co-creator unveils Ouya-exclusive game Soul Fjord (video)

Posted by on April 30, 2013 No comments

Portal co-creator unveils Ouya-exclusive game Soul Fjord (video)

It’s no secret that Portal co-creator Kim Swift has been developing an Ouya-exclusive game, but details regarding it had been kept under wraps until today. Dubbed Soul Fjord, the Airtight Games-developed title fuses Norse mythology with ’70s Funk and Soul, and charges its main character Magnus Jones with climbing the World Tree to demand an invitation to Ragnarok, “the party that will end the world.” Gameplay hasn’t been shown quite yet, but the experience is described as a dungeon-crawler with rhythm-based combat that’ll see players battle their way through randomly generated areas. Do the hustle past the break to catch the game’s first trailer and a developer video diary.

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Ancient portal to the underworld found in Turkey

Posted by on April 2, 2013 No comments

Italian archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery, which they announced a few days ago at a conference in Turkey where the discovery was made: the Gate to Hell, or so it is called. Officially named Pluto’s Gate (Ploutonion in Greek), this portal of sorts is filled with foul-smelling fumes that cause near instant death. Also

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Docomo Extends Reach In China With ‘D Game’ Gaming Portal Deal On China Mobile

Posted by on March 25, 2013 No comments

docomo logoNTT Docomo, the largest carrier in Japan, is taking one more step into China today. The company announced that it will offer a localized version of its new “d game” gaming service on China Mobile. This will be the first time that d game is being exported to any market outside of Japan. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The service will go live on March 26, initially with 20 titles.

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TomTom opens portal for rapid location-based app development

Posted by on November 15, 2012 No comments

Navigation technology provider TomTom announced developer tools and a platform for location-based services (LBS) in the cloud to help in the rapid creation of apps for finding locations that are used by truck fleets and other businesses.
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Bloomberg’s App Portal brings its financial market terminals into the app store age

Posted by on November 13, 2012 No comments

Bloomberg's App Portal brings its financial market terminals into the app store age

Monitoring financial data and trading stocks in the big leagues often means using a locked down Bloomberg terminal pre-loaded with sanctioned software, but now the platform has caught the app store bug. Starting today, stock market buffs will be able to purchase apps on the Bloomberg App Portal, which underwent more than a year of testing and has software from over 40 developers. As for revenue, Bloomberg’s taken a page from Apple’s book and will keep 30 percent of earnings made from sales on its storefront. Since a single console sets customers back $ 20,000 each year according to the Financial Times, we imagine $ 0.99 apps will be few and far between. It’s unlikely that Rovio is going to barge into this app marketplace, so day traders will probably be busy playing stocks instead of Angry Birds.

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Verizon confirms Droid DNA on its Droid Does portal, promises ‘unboxing’ on November 19th

Posted by on November 11, 2012 No comments

Verizon confirms Droid DNA on its Droid Does portal, promising 'unboxing' on November 19th

Last we checked, there are about six days between Verizon / HTC’s press event in New York City and November 19th. Which, by most counts, should be just enough time for the two companies to properly announce a phone, get it out to sales channels, and start moving ‘em into the hands of consumers. HTC’s Droid DNA has been leaked to death at this point, but a new mention of the product on VZW’s ‘Droid Does’ portal all but confirms the true nature of Tuesday’s event. For those willing to wait until November 19th, the carrier’s promising an internet unboxing through its Google+ page — for those who tune into our site, we’ll get you one much sooner. Hit up the source if you’re intrigued by intrigue, but don’t go poking around for pricing or confirmed specifications.

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Baidu buys control of streaming video portal iQiyi, raises stakes in China’s media wars

Posted by on November 4, 2012 No comments

Baidu buys control of streaming video portal iQiyi, raises stakes in China's media wars

The merger of China’s video giants Youku and Tudou this August must have struck a nerve over at Baidu: the search engine just bought out equity firm Providence’s controlling stake in iQiyi, an already large video service built solely around streaming professional movies and TV shows. Should the deal wrap up as planned in the fall, Baidu plans to keep its new partner as a separate badge but weave its content throughout mobile sites and search results. The company is unsurprisingly taking a Google-like strategy to make sure it isn’t left on the sidelines as searchers go elsewhere for video. Pragmatism aside, its deal could represent more for China as a whole — when hundreds of millions of people are exposed to commercially-oriented video as a matter of course, it could tip the balance in a way that we didn’t see with YouTube rentals.

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Dwolla Democratizing APIs With New Non-Technical Portal

Posted by on July 17, 2012 No comments

dwolla-logoAn API is a “must have” feature for many tech startus. Mailchimp CEO Ben Chestnut went so far as to write that the company’s API is “probably the best marketing we’ve ever done.” But for some companies an API is more than just marketing, it’s a core part of the business. As more business shifts online, non-technical business people will need to make strategic decisions about technology, including integrations with third-party sites via APIs. More tech companies should try to demystify their offerings.
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KPN closes portal after finding most corporate customers use default password

Posted by on July 6, 2012 No comments

KPN closed a self-service portal for corporate ADSL customers on Tuesday after it discovered that 120,000 of its 180,000 business clients were still using default passwords, all variants of "welkom01," a company spokesman said Friday.
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Student Makes Real-Life Portal Turret

Posted by on May 15, 2012 No comments



lukehopewell1 writes “A Penn State robotics student has gone to the effort of building a working, automated turret from the video game series, Portal. Powered by a webcam, Arduino boards and hacked up USB-missile launchers, this is one serious piece of kit that is just as adorable as its in-game counterpart. “

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Harvard, MIT online learning portal to help Web, classroom learning

Posted by on May 3, 2012 No comments

An online education organization backed and funded by MIT and Harvard University will use open-source technology to offer free classes over the Internet, the two schools announced Wednesday at a press conference.
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Portal 2 ‘Perpetual Testing Initiative’ DLC trailer goes out

Posted by on April 28, 2012 No comments

If you’re starting to get bored of Portal 2, just wait until May 8, when the ambitious new piece of downloadable content, called Perpetual Testing Initiative, is released. The DLC will give players one of the most appealing additions to the Portal franchise to date – the ability to create custom levels. That’s right; you

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Mini-golf course inspired by Minecraft, Portal, et al

Posted by on April 17, 2012 No comments

If you happen to be a nerd who also likes miniature golf, then online personality Tom Scott has created something you would probably think is cooler than Disney World. He, along with a bunch of hackers who had nothing better to do, created a 12-hole miniature golf course with designs that were inspired by some

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Portal 2 alternate realities detailed by Valve writers

Posted by on March 11, 2012 No comments

There are now two Portal games out there in the wild, both of them created with Valve ultimately simple concept of a factory testing technology on you, the player – but that’s not all the writers on the team had in mind at one point or another. As all games begin with an idea, so

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World’s collide as Super Mario Bros and Portal become Mari0 (video)

Posted by on March 5, 2012 No comments

Remember when the amalgamation of Super Mario Bros and a Portal gun seemed like the most amazing, yet impossibly lucid pipe dream? As it turns out, the cake named “Mari0″ by developer-house Stabyourself actually wasn’t a lie. But lest you thought this just a redo of Super Mario Bros with a skosh of Aperture science thrown in, you’d be oh-so-wrong. How’s about four-player co-op, in addition to a level editor and a bevy of hilarious modes that’ll put a new twist on an old favorite. And could it get any better than available for the sweet sweet price of free? If that’s not a ringing endorsement, we don’t know what is. If you’re still reading this, we’re unsure why you’re still here — get your game on at the source link below.

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Skyrim Portal crossover brings robots to the realm

Posted by on February 8, 2012 No comments

Just this past week the folks at Bethesda released a Skyrim Creation Kit, one made to make developing strange modifications for the game as easy as pie. This week the team at Valve made full use of the kit to bring everyone’s favorite Portal character to the medieval world of Skyrim – a robot, of [...]
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Portal 2 takes your holiday shopping to a new dimension this season

Posted by on December 2, 2011 No comments

There’s a game out there called Portal 2, and in that game it’s the physics of the environment you’re in that dictate how you play the game – this holiday season, it is you who will be dictating the happiness of your closest associate with a whole heaping couple of handfuls of Portal 2 oddball [...]
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Did everyone try this the first time they played Portal?

Posted by on September 21, 2011 No comments
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watching my girlfriend play Portal 2

Posted by on September 8, 2011 No comments
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