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The player, taking on the role of the unnamed astronaut protagonist, returns from a failed 100-year voyage to 61 Cygni to find the Earth devoid of humans. Cars are rusted and covered with moss, the streets are completely barren, and everything appears as though the entire human race had just vanished suddenly.
Portal was awarded the Game of the Year award in 2007 by Joystiq, [120] Good Game, [121] and Shacknews. [122] The Most Original Game award by X-Play. [123] In Official Xbox Magazine 's 2007 Game of the Year Awards, Portal won Best New Character (for GLaDOS), Best Original Song (for "Still Alive"), and Innovation of the Year. [124]
Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve.Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility.
This is a list of largest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the video game industry with publicly disclosed deal values.Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is the most expensive video game acquisitions of all time followed by Activision-Vivendi Games merger and Take-Two Interactive-Zynga acquisition. 14 of the 20 most expensive video game purchases in video game history occurred ...
Portal is a single-player first-person action/puzzle game that was first available as a part of The Orange Box as one of its three original new games. The game consists primarily of a series of puzzles, solved by creating portals which the player and simple objects can pass through in order to reach an exit point, under the supervision of an AI ...
Portal fans rejoice — or rather, bask in the mixed feelings of getting a new game set in their beloved franchise's universe that isn't at all what they've been clamoring for over the past decade ...
Stickfight: The Game: 2 million [85] — September 28, 2017: Fighting: Landfall Games Kenshi: 2 million [86] — December 6, 2018: Real-time strategy Action role-playing game: Lo-Fi Games Lo-Fi Games Diablo: 1.8 million [87] Diablo: December 31, 1996: Action role-playing: Blizzard North: Blizzard Entertainment (North America) Ubisoft (Europe ...
The highest selling arcade game of the year is F-1. 1977 – The Atari Video Computer System (later the Atari 2600) is released as the first widely popular home video game console. [5] 1978 – Space Invaders is released, popularizing the medium and beginning the golden age of arcade video games. [6]