Are you counting the days until the release of Portal 2? Well the culmination of Valve’s recent ARG may have just thrown you off count. This week Valve released the Potato Sack bundle on Steam. Confused? Good. You’re in the right frame of mind for GLaDOS’ latest experiment.
Let me break it down for you.
The Potato Sack is a bundle of thirteen indie games:
- 1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby
- AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Audiosurf
- BIT.TRIP.BEAT.
- Cogs
- Defense Grid: The Awakening
- Killing Floor
- RUSH
- Super Meat Boy
- The Ball
- The Wonderful End of the World
- Toki Tori
And of course, GLaDOS has been appearing to players in each of these games, entirely contrary to their normal operation. Also potatos.
The situation? GLaDOS needs more CPUs to begin ‘rebooting’ for an event many speculate to be an early release of Portal 2 for the PC. Valve likely gathers a double fist full of money on a publicity stunt worthy of a standing ovation, indie games worth playing actually get purchased (virtually unheard of), and fans of every game involved, including Portal 2, get a rather appetizing carrot to chase.
To catch up with this story to date, follow this link to reports by one of the first confused victims. And by all means, get the Potato Sack and grind for that early release!
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