TARGET FOUND: PORTAL’S SENTRY TURRET IN REAL LIFE
Able to give anyone who’s spent any time in the game an immediate fight/flight response, Valve quietly unveils an actual, life-size functioning Portal Sentry Turret, feature-complete with everything apart from the obvious human hazard.
Draw your own conclusions about what it means that the video was posted to the Facebook account dedicated to Valve’s online shop — there have been widespread reports of the company jumping into the hardware market, right? [via Realm Lovejoy]
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Awesome. Working TF2 engineer’s turret next, please.
Valve certainly knows how to drain a poor joe’s wallet.
iOS users get a blank space instead of a video… :’<
Yeah, Facebook apparently doesn’t have an HTML5 player. :/
@Jack Nilssen Valve actually has (had?) a “working” Level 1 turret in their office for a awhile. Here’s the link to the YouTube video of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kccz1qziE