[Image: http://gamers-underground.com/content/attachments/6570-jpg.html] The last we heard of Portal 2 was way back in 2008, when we were told it was happening by project leader designer Kimberly Swift. Since then, virtually nada. Oh how we've pined for something, anything! Now though, Portal has been unexpectedly updated with "Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations". The word on the web is that we've been handed a set of clues...
Forum member Aegis points out a hefty thread at the Steam forums where users are frantically trying to decipher the message and reveal whatever message is hidden within. Go check it out and lend a hand if you've got some spare time to kill.
Update: it has been cracked! The code contained login information to a BBS. Once there, the reveal was a picture of Gabe Newell and some audio of what might be Episode 3 characters? Hopefully there's more to be found!
Quote from relaxeder;13767108: Check out that wiki someone posted a page or two ago, might be worth a look.
In a nutshell:
-Portal gets surprise update yesterday afternoon -People see new mystery achievement -People play and see the radio in the beginning room now has a green light -Carry it around and notice it makes strange broadcast interference noises in certain places -Locate and place all 26 of these mystery radios for achievement -Smart people yank wav files out of game content folders and run them through steganography programs -Produces 26 weird cryptic image files in a numbered sequence -Some dude runs the number string through an md5 hash translator and gets a landline number -Internet traces it to Kirkland, WA (near Valve HQ) -People find out its not a phone/fax line but a data line hosting a BBS and telnet it -Use a clue from one of the files to figure out the BBS user/password login info -End up with a bunch of weird ASCII artwork -We're trying to figure out wtf it means -XJR asks for summary on the forums