Portal was released last year and received great critical reviews and many gamers fell in love with the game, the Weighted Companion Cube became an overnight success, as did the game. Earlier this year it was let slip that Portal 2 was a certainty. Now Doug Lombardi has informed Eurogamer that we shouldn’t expect to see any more Portal this year.

“In typical Valve tradition, it won’t be Portal with different colours,” said Lombardi, dressed as a companion cube. “I think that when you hit something like that, you have two choices: you can quickly replicate it and stick it out there - do the opportunistic thing and cash in on it; or you can do the crazy thing like we did after Half-Life was so successful and go off and try and say, ‘Okay, that was revolutionary, so its successor has to be equally as revolutionary.’

“That’s the spirit I think we’re approaching it in,” he added. “You won’t see a new Portal at retail this Christmas because of that. That’s the trade off. People want more, but we don’t want to give them more of the same right away because that would just be boring.”

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A sad thing to hear that we won’t be seeing more Portal this year, but I guess that if Valve manage to do like they did with the transition from Half-Life to Half-Life 2 we will end up with a better Portal 2.

Everyone loves the Weighted Companion Cube. They loved it so much that when the plush version was originally made available on the Valve Store that it sold out within 24-hours. Luckily for all of you who failed to get your Companion you now have the chance to get it. Yes the Weighted Companion Cube is back in stock!

For $29.95 you can get the Weighted Companion Cube Plush for the Fuzzies. Knowing how fast they went originally you best hurry over to get them at the Valve Store.

Now if only I had the money spare to splash out on this! By the time I can afford it…it will be out of stock again :(