Mirror's Edge Looks Like It Could Be Very Frustrating

Kotaku has some new in-game footage (below) from this year's parkour-inspired first person shooter runner game Mirror's Edge. Finally something different from the same scene/level we've seen over and over in the past 6 months.

This time the gameplay is centered on running around in a Half-Life-esque indoor area with lots of ladders and platforms and snipers! All I could think of while watching the new footage is how much the gameplay is like Portal... Portal without the portal gun. Basically you enter an area at point A and you've got to figure out how to get to point B before GLaDOS does something nasty to you while acting all innocent.

All similarities aside, I'm still looking forward to this game as it appears to offer something new in a time when all the big games are sequels to games we played on the previous generation platforms.

GLaDOS GPS Speaks, No Mention Of Cake

On the heels of last week's news about a KITT GPS kit comes this little tid bit from Engadget. Some Portal loving tech head has gone and made a voice pack for his GPS starring the voice of one mentally disturbed AI known to gamers everywhere as GLaDOS.

If you've played Portal you'd know that GLaDOS isn't known for "her" helpful directions so I'm not sure you'd want to be driving around under its instruction but it'd be fun to freak out your passengers.

I was a little disappointed there was no mention of cake during the entire video though.