Greets to all reading, this is the first blog in my new.. blogtastic blog machine. blog.

Anyways, whats new?

Well, with the reasonably imminent release of HL2 Episode 2, the valve corporation have announced new items of awesomeness for us followers of anything HL related.

Heres the Episode 2 Trailer in all its glory.

Firstly, the download/disk comes with two new games shipped, these being the long-awaited Team Fortress 2 (nine years in the making) and the rather interesting-looking “Portal”

Team Fortress 2 Teaser Trailer Thing

Digging the cartoony look to this thing, actually. Was a bit surprised at first but seeing the awesomeness of the ship:source, it seems to carry itself rather well.

The mind-exploding Portal

Portal looks.. intense on the frontal lobe. If anyone recognises the concept, it was used in a game called Narbacular Drop, Which was a freeware product released by Nuclear Monkey Software Apparently, Valve were so impressed with the small project that they took on the boys at Nuclear Monkey exclusively to develop portal.

If its as good as that video makes out, i’ll probably play it more than the actual expansion.

In Art related news, things have been fairly inconsistent of late, i’ve been dealing with a minor block which i’m slowly writhing out of. Expect some new pics here and there as soon as i’m free of the chains of anti-inspiration.

Well, that was reasonably painless. Later.

T