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by Maarten Goldstein, Aug 26, 2006 6:59am PDT

The Street Fighter movie was on TV last night, and as always I didn't change the channel. Honestly I have no idea why. It's certainly not getting any better after all these years. But there's just something about watching that trainwreck of a movie. Movie: Your ass is six months overdue, and it's mine.



























  • holy crap

    GI: The narrator of Portal seems to have some sort of funny/weird delivery. What kind of tone are you going for with the game?

    Lombardi: When you have that style of game it could just be very stale and very dry. It’s just puzzle solving and you could put in a little techno music in the background and leave it at that. But we thought it would be much more interesting if we introduced this idea of the narrator. The original idea came from the training room in Half-Life 1 where you had that voice that was talking to you and whatnot. She was a little bit cynical, but not nearly as so as the voice in Portal. The writing for that is being done by Chet [Faliszek] and Erik [Wolpaw] who used to be Old Man Murray. They’re at Valve now and one of their first projects they’ve been tasked with is to do the writing for Portal. So if you were a fan of Old Man Murray you’re going to be a fan of that voice in Portal because it’s the same wry cynicism.

    OMM working on Half-Life. That's great.