Portal: Secret Announcement

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Portal was updated recently in Steam to include some radios in the game.

If you find the radios, they play the following coded messages.



People are busy trying to decode them through combos of morse code and some technique that is decoding the audio into pictures... sort of like the spectral analysis stuff that Aphex Twin uses to hide images in his music, but this Portal thing is using a different technique I'm not familiar with.

Here's some of what has been discovered so far as people try to decode these secret messages from Aperture Science headquarters/Valve.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=1169218
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My brother is a signals analyst. I'll have to link him the 2nd video.
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J T wrote:Portal was updated recently in Steam to include some radios in the game.

If you find the radios, they play the following coded messages.



People are busy trying to decode them through combos of morse code and some technique that is decoding the audio into pictures... sort of like the spectral analysis stuff that Aphex Twin uses to hide images in his music, but this Portal thing is using a different technique I'm not familiar with.

Here's some of what has been discovered so far as people try to decode these secret messages from Aperture Science headquarters/Valve.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=1169218
There are images in that thread now. As noted its SSTV. Slow Scan TV.
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I am thoroughly excited.
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Portal has a new ending. If you want to see it, you can beat the game again or youtube it. But the new ending leads to the new formal announcement that all these clues have led up to. There will be a Portal 2! GlaDos is back! :D
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Really excited about this. New Game Stop preorder info says October 26th, sounds about the right time frame and I am quite excited about it.

According to Kotaku the game has coop but seems the info has been pulled from game stop's site so we'll see. How would everyone feel about a coop?
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J T wrote: GlaDos is back! :D
GlaDos never left. She's still alive.
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J T wrote:There will be a Portal 2!
As I said in the other thread that mentioned Portal 2:

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OOOH YEAH!

Nuff' said.
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