Growing up, your toys were cool and you were glad you had them, but your friends always had a cooler toy that you would have killed for. Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises such as Half-Life, Counter-Strike and the Steam online store, appear to have realized this and announced on Tuesday that the the PlayStation 3 version of Portal 2 will include cross platform play capable of communicating with the Mac OS X and Windows versions for multiplayer games, persistent cloud-based storage of saved games, and cross platform chat.
In addition, those who purchase Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 will be able to unlock a Steam Play (Mac OS X and Windows) copy of Portal 2 at no additional cost by linking their PlayStation Network and Steam accounts. These features are made possible thru the Steam online store, Valve's platform for the delivery and management of the company's game library.
Portal 2 is due for release on the PlayStation 3, PC, Mac and Xbox 360 platforms on April 18th, although final system requirements and pricing have yet to be announced.
itscoley
January 20, 2011 at 7:14am
Wow. This is so epic. Now I'll have some portal at home and on the go. =D
Mr. Happypants
January 18, 2011 at 7:35pm
Wow, this is HUGE! Even though isn't what I'd imagine is a prime multi-player title, I was debating about whether to get it for the PS3 or the Mac, now I can have both!
drdre74
January 18, 2011 at 6:39pm
I hope this takes off and a lot of other Devs start doing more cross over online games.
