{"id":10836,"date":"2010-03-03T18:06:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/is-valve-hinting-at-portal-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:15:39","slug":"is-valve-hinting-at-portal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/is-valve-hinting-at-portal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Valve hinting at Portal 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three years is a long time in video games, so when Valve released a PC update for the critically acclaimed <strong>Portal<\/strong> yesterday, the forum communities were intrigued. The update included a new achievement, Transmission Received, which requires players pick up 26 radio transmissions from around the game. Not so interesting, you may think.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.steampowered.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=1169218\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/03\/portal.png\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These transmissions are puzzles in themselves, which the Portal fan community is busy unraveling. The ingenuity is pretty surprising &#8211; the transmissions are in fact hidden messages transmitting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slow-scan_television\">SSTV encoded photographs<\/a><\/strong>, which show 26 grainy, enigmatic images watermarked with Portal&#8217;s Aperture Science logo. Further investigation has produced some strange ASCII artwork too.<\/p>\n<p>What it all means is so far a mystery. Some hope for more <strong>Half Life<\/strong>, in whose universe Portal exists, but it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess at the moment&#8230; Portal is my favorite 3D puzzle game, being both mind bending and incredibly atmospheric. I hope there&#8217;s more to come!<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/03\/01\/not-a-lie-valve-upda.html\">BoingBoing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/valve-teases-with-mystery-portal-patch\">Eurogamer<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years is a long time in video games, so when Valve released a PC update for the critically acclaimed Portal yesterday, the forum communities were intrigued. The update included a new achievement, Transmission Received, which requires players pick up 26 radio transmissions from around the game. Not so interesting, you may think. These transmissions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/is-valve-hinting-at-portal-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Valve hinting at Portal 2?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2970],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionportal-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335077,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions\/335077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}