Portal has updated on Steam. According to the press release they "Added Valuable Asset Retrieval." What does this mean? Well, the ending has changed. For those who might be playing Portal/The Orange Box on the 360 and not Steam here's the video.

Can you say Portal 2? I'm sure you can (hopefully packaged with a certain other anticipated Valve title).

UPDATE: After thinking about this, Valuable Asset Retrieval sounds like something from the G-Man (doubt I'm the first that thought of this) though it may be Aperture Science. Opinions?

Still my most anticipated game for 2010 (at least until Half-Life 2:Episode 3 is officially announced).

In two previous posts (first and second) I have detailed out eight of my top ten most memorable PC Games of 2000-2009. There are some wonderful games and experiences but the two games listed here are the best from the last ten years.

But before I get to those, let's address the elephant in the room, or not in the room as the case may be - Left 4 Dead 2. The original Left 4 Dead is number five on my list and I have stated that Left 4 Dead 2 is as good as if not better than the original. Has my opinion changed? How could Left 4 Dead 2 not make this list? The answer, really, is simple. It has not (primarily) been a PC game for me. To this point I've spent much more time on the X-Box 360 version of Left 4 Dead 2. I've been trying to rectify that a bit this week but with the hours I've put into L4D2 on the 360 it will take some time. So as time has progressed I've grown to like L4D2 more than L4D. But it doesn't belong on this list (at least not yet).

(I'm not always fond of IGN's reviews but I think they got L4D2 right.)

My top two are after the jump.

The following video is of Jonathan Coulton (the Still Alive writer) doing his song Your Brains which is on the jukeboxes scattered around L4D2 levels. It's sweet.

In my previous post I listed numbers 10-6 of my top ten memorable PC games from 2000-2009. These were:

10. Doom 3
9. Crysis
8. Audiosurf
7. Portal
6. Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

These are great titles that speak volumes about the quality of the remaining five. Before I list those, however, I'd like to briefly mention three games not on this list. Two are the Pop-Cap games Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies. While both are great games and provide hours of fun, they are not memorable in the way these other games are. Still they are great games and I would recommend them to many people I would not recommend these other games to. Far Cry 2 has was also a great game and has one of the best payoffs of any game I've played. It falls just short of making this list.

This video is the start of that payoff. Warning, this scene is a major spoiler for Far Cry 2.

Three of the top five most memorable PC games after the jump.