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
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Microsoft’s fast to push out their press release, probably hoping to overshadow any reports Sony may be releasing for sales numbers. At this point, we’ll have to believe their press release as fact until someone proves it otherwise; Microsoft would hate to be caught in a lie. Unfortunately, NPD figures aren’t collected in Europe so we have to wait for all the other metric gathering companies to release final December 2007 figures.
I wanted Killer Instinct on the mini SNES.