Now you’re plinking with portals
Theteaser is less than a week old, and now we have some more details on the collaboration between Zen Studios (best known for its pinball games) and Valve (best known for not developingHalf-Life 3). It’s not the excellent play on wordsXen Pinball. The project is theAperture Science Heuristic Portal Pinball Device, or just Portal Pinball for short.
There are a bunch of neat uses of thePortallicense on this table. Chell and Wheatley navigate the facility, GLaDOS makes an appearance, and the multiball summons co-op partners ATLAS and P-Body. The flippers and bumpers all sport the glowy blue/orange portal colors. Surprisingly, none of the screens so far show any areas where the ball itself can pass through portals. I sincerely hope that mechanic makes it in; it would be a shame to include so much from thePortalfranchise without using the central idea that made it so amazing back in 2007.
ThePortaltable will be available on May 25 as an add-on forPinball FX2andZen Pinball 2. It will cost $2.99 on PC and consoles, and only $1.99 on mobile platforms.
