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Long Before Friendslop, Portal 2 Made Co-Op Cool

Long Before Friendslop, Portal 2 Made Co-Op Cool https://ift.tt/jMpcx4l April 18, 2026 marks the 15-year anniversary of Portal 2's release. Below, we reminisce about its memorable story, novel cooperative two-player mode, and enduring comedy. There was a time in the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 era when Valve was spoiling us with games, packaging some excellent titles in The Orange Box and bringing us back-to-back Left 4 Dead entries. But the company hit a stride with the 2011 release of Portal 2, which might be its finest accomplishment of that generation. Following up from 2007's Portal, Valve would still have had a hit if it had only made and released the single-player campaign, but the developers went the extra mile with the addition of a full-fledged co-op campaign--which itself would have been an equally worthy sequel to Portal on its own, and in retrospect, was a harbinger for cooperative and social games trending today. Continue Reading at GameSpot

Baldur's Gate 3 Players Are Turning Into An Absolute Unit To Do Ridiculous Damage

Baldur's Gate 3 Players Are Turning Into An Absolute Unit To Do Ridiculous Damage https://ift.tt/NUhBy48

Baldur's Gate 3 has been out for almost two weeks now, with players logging some impressive average play time, so it's not surprising people have already found inventive ways to break the game. The latest strategy has been dubbed "Owlbear from the top rope," taking advantage of the quirks of Crushing Flight to do over 1000 damage in a single hit, as picked up by IGN.

The move appears to have been pioneered by Redditor Fishbleb, who noted in a post that "apparently Crushing Flight scales with mass." The accompanying video shows their character stacking an Enlarge spell on top of Owlbear wildshape, before using Crushing Flight from a high vantage point.

Because Crushing Flight takes both height and weight into account (in this case 5005kg from 22.5m), the combination deals a whopping total of 1170 bludgeoning damage. What's more, Crushing Flight negates fall damage, leaving players free to climb as high as they can to crush their enemies from above.

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