{"id":1003,"date":"2010-06-09T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2010-06-09T17:13:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T22:13:18","slug":"portal-2-release-date-delayed-due-to-public-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Portal 2 release date delayed due to &#8216;public safety concerns&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Innovation\/Horizons\/2010\/0609\/Portal-2-release-date-delayed-due-to-public-safety-concerns\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Gaylord <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Portal 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/var\/ezflow_site\/storage\/images\/media\/images\/0609-portal-2\/8095605-1-eng-US\/0609-portal-2_full_380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"177\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Innovation\/Horizons\/2010\/0305\/First-look-at-Portal-2-images\" target=\"_blank\">Portal 2<\/a>&#8221; has been delayed. Why? &#8220;Making games is  hard.&#8221;That&#8217;s the tongue-in-cheek announcement from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valvesoftware.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valve Software<\/a>, the  video game&#8217;s developer. The company reports Wednesday that Portal 2 will  not be done in time to make its scheduled &#8220;holiday season 2010&#8221; release  date. Expect the hotly anticipated sequel to arrive in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Valve&#8217;s  press release \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a joint statement with Aperture Science, the fictional  company from &#8220;Portal&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c explains that &#8220;public safety concerns factored  into the decision&#8221; to postpone the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though Portal 2  will arrive slightly later than planned, all life on earth won&#8217;t  instantaneously stop as every molecule in your body explodes at the  speed of light, which is what would happen should a rip ever appear in  the fabric of Valve Time,&#8221; says the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Chris Gaylord &#8220;Portal 2&#8221; has been delayed. Why? &#8220;Making games is hard.&#8221;That&#8217;s the tongue-in-cheek announcement from Valve Software, the video game&#8217;s developer. The company reports Wednesday that Portal 2 will not be done in time to make its scheduled &#8220;holiday season 2010&#8221; release date. Expect the hotly anticipated sequel to arrive in 2011. Valve&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}