Valve has formerly announced the already expected, but much-anticipated sequel to 2007's Orange Box title Portal will be coming out around the end of the year, but unfortunately it doesn't look like it will coming to PS3. The official reveal of the game has appeared in US magazineGameInformer, but it only lists PC, Xbox 360 and Mac as formats.

After Valve updated the Steam version of Portal with new radio transmissions and a new achievement, sleuthing Steam forum users have been finding all sorts of interesting things like images and a clue pointing towards an an announcement perhaps at GDC next week.

The February issue of Game Informer (it's a magazine that isn't Play) is reporting that there won't be a new Half-Life game this year, even though we've had to wait about a million billion years for one. It doesn't necessarily mean Episode 3, as it isn't named specifically, but that would be the logical guess. What it does mean, though, is that we can hope Ep.3 comes out this year and the one that isn't coming in the Queen's Space Year ...

It would be easy to claim he 'blasted' Valve, or that he's 'stoking the fire' or other such nonsense, but the simple fact is Randy Pitchford has commented on Valve's refusal to develop for PS3, and he's called it "foolish". That's about it, really. We want to ramp up the drama, we really do, and it is a bit of a swipe, but it's hard to scream 'FIIIGHT!' with any real conviction at this one. Maybe it's because he was speaking ...

News reporting that wears its lack of depth as a badge of pride.