The core concept behind Portal involves bending the space/time continuum, but is Aperture Laboratories actually capable of reversing
Valve Time? Possibly, as
Kotaku points to
clues from the
Valve PotatoFoolsDay ARG suggesting
Portal 2 may be released on Friday, rather than next week (thanks nin). On a semi-related note,
Portal 2 pre-loads are now available through Steam. Also, on the topic of Valve Time,
Brad Wardell tells IndustryGamers he thinks operating
Steam is contributing to delays of Valve's internally developed games, saying: "you look at before Steam and after Steam, it's definitely had an effect." Of course Half-Life, the poster child for Valve Time, was released years before Steam was a gleam in Valve's eye, but he's entitled to his opinion. Finally, there's more on this ARG on the
Dejobaan Website (where they offer
this mash-up) and the
Lazy 8 Website.