In Memorandum: Companion Cube
Portal, an inclusion in Valve Software’s Orange Box game pack, should have been forgettable. With the second installment of Half-Life 2’s episodic content and a Team Fortress sequel ten years in the making Portal should have been a bit of shovelware. Instead, the first game to birth the genre ‘action-puzzler’ was better than it ever had rights to be - even ending up included as #2 on GameSpy’s best games of 2007 list. What’s more it shares a distinction that few games enjoy: fully transcending from game-land into the larger geekdom pop culture.
That’s why even non-games can appreciate this companion cube Tshirt direct from the Valve store. *sniff* On the front is a tribute to the precious inanimate object *hiccup*. On the back is a scrawled poetic eulogy. It’s almost as tender as Portal’s…. *sob* final theme song. Just watch this video while I go take this eyelash out of both eyes.
