Episode 481: Portal’s Huge Success

October 15, 2017| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 1:11 am

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This week’s Gaming Flashback has no cake — instead it’s the history of Portal. The guys try to keep the podcast meme-free as they discuss Valve’s first person puzzle platformer.

There’s also non-Portal related news items, too:

Chris Avellone may be teasing a new Fallout game
Street Fighter 5 will finally get an arcade mode in 2018
The SNES Classic has been hacked
Telltale patch removes assassinated ambassador from Batman: The Enemy Within

Let us know what you think in the Comments section.

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Donovan says:

October 23, 2017 at 1:30 pm

I wanted Killer Instinct on the mini SNES.

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