Update News! (in first two posts)

-Portal gets surprise update March 1st
-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 SSTV programs [http://i49.tinypic.com/s4b7zn.jpg] [Edit: link should work now. Yes, it's darker than the original.]
-Produces 22 cryptic image files in a numbered sequence, 4 morse code
-Somebody 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 [backup/backup]
-End up with a bunch of weird ASCII artwork:
http://i.imgur.com/tz3l7.gif http://i.imgur.com/7rfEH.gifhttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2801/...b95fd393_o.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116597/Portal/human.png
Raw BBS stuff: http://kevin.fobby.net/portal_puzzle/raw_bbs_logs/
New ASCII from the BBS: http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5197/bbsn.jpg
Cave's memos: http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...7&postcount=56
Dino22 is http://www.flickr.com/photos/twoseve...7623315938604/, which is the MINERVA creator/Valve employee's stream.
-http://store.steampowered.com/news/3547/
The valuable asset appears to be Chell, as after you beat GLaDOS she gets dragged off by a robot who says 'Thank you for assuming party escort position'.
VIDEO OF THE EVENT: http://www.xfire.com/video/2393cf/
NEW CREDITS AFTER STILL ALIVE: http://www.xfire.com/video/23947f/ Gotten when using Godmode, noclip, and Impulse101.

-Not at all current: http://i47.tinypic.com/1zzgy9k.png
http://i.imgur.com/tabKQ.png/
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1172206 Top post are the images from last night.

---PORTAL 2 ANNOUNCED: http://store.steampowered.com/news/3559/
http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archi...-revealed.aspx
http://portalwiki.net/index.php/Portal_2

The best place for information about the ARG and Portal 2: http://portalwiki.net/index.php/Main_Page

Other threads/places to go:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1168990 [General thread, mostly for theories and puzzling things out]
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1169096 [How to get each radio]
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1169218 [The radio sounds]
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1169929 [The radio sounds decoded, a bit]
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1169084 [The morse code translations]
A private SomethingAwful thread
#portal on irc.chat-solutions.net
#portal-update on irc.chat-solutions.net

Other summaries:
http://pugsoft.info/radio/index.php?title=Wave_Dump
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...eases-Portal-2 [Cogent but very incomplete.]
http://netshroud.wordpress.com/2010/...ission-update/
http://goonlinegames.net/2010/03/02/...-clues-so-far/

Theories, etc.

- Since GLaDOS is in version 3.11, and Gabe Newell is receiving an award on March 11th [http://www.gdconf.com/news/gdc/valve...eive_2010.html], there will be an announcement.

--This announcement has three popular theories in itself:
-The Orange Box 2
-Half Life 2: Episode 3
-Portal 2
-Combining the HL and the Portal worlds.

-Someone drove out to Kirkland, WA and scouted around. See original post here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...7&postcount=93

-The US radio frequencies do not go as low as 85. Possibilities of it being on a different continent, possibly in relation to HL2.

-Stuff about the chemical equations and the apples:

him: the compound resembles catechol-type enzyme inhibitors
him: which are found in apples
him: catechol-ortho-methyl-transferase is a catechol transferase enzyme that upregulates dopamine production in the brain and can be used to make activities more pleasureable
him: catechol-ortho-methyl-transferase is a catechol transferase enzyme that upregulates dopamine production in the brain and can be used to make activities more pleasureable
him: there's a drug COMT, that I mentioned
him: catechol-O-methyl-transferase
him: usually used to treat parkinson's
him: but recently has been applied to people with severe amotivational syndrome
him: because it creates pleasure in otherwise unappealing activities
me: like killing?
him: perhaps

--It's also been brought up that cyanide can be derived from apple seeds...

-The baby/crib/couple/cake/whatever photo: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/...9e7819ac_o.jpg
http://img10.abload.de/img/portalimagepossible1efmd.jpg <-- Unknown origins
--Theories run the gamut:
-Chell's parents, who GLaDOS then killed so that she'd be a proppa test subject
-Alyx/parents
-A companion cube
-Gordan and Alyx
-The room Barney pulls you into
-Cake

-Witchcraft? http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1171672

-http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd57fghp_107hhphr9d5

-About the ASCII:
New pics virtual sonagrams?
Old Portal1 rooms?
Possible pregnancy/baby themes, this post http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...postcount=4739

--http://www.xfire.com/video/2393cf/
-Military android working for GLaDOS
-GMan
-Someone European/Asian (due to the voice)
-CJohnson
-Ratman
-A chicken (related to dinosaurs and were a failed experiment at AS

[Mendozacheers]

DAmn you're good!
fail on the very first link though ^^

[J.K. Sprat]

- Since GLaDOS is in version 3.11, and Gabe Newell is receiving an award on March 11th [http://www.gdconf.com/news/gdc/valve...ive_2010.html], there will be an announcement.

Or it may also be a reference to Windows 3.11 as a joke.

[Kowl Slaw]

Bravo! Very good finds.

I can't wait to find out what happens.

[uma plata]

rep for summary

Non-nerds everywhere thank you

[LATTEH]

Im siting on the edge of my seat waiting D:

[Jamieeee]

Very concise and informative, thank you.
I had to sleep/work through most of the frenzied posting, this is nice to see.

Originally Posted by Mendozacheers

DAmn you're good!
fail on the very first link though ^^

Thanks for the catch. Fixed.

[SARCASM]

Is it just me, or does there appear to be a black turret in the big image?

Originally Posted by ModernLR

-Produces 26 weird cryptic image files in a numbered sequence

Small error there: Only 22 of the audio files were images, 4 were simply morse code.

[Live2bcool]

On the "new bit" It looks like the sentry's are smallest to biggest. Baby sentry, normal sentry, and black sentry. And then a black cat on the right?

[Mendozacheers]

Originally Posted by ModernLR

Thanks for the catch. Fixed.

Haha great! now is the first link in your second post messin' instead ^^

Great summary. Please sticky this so we don't get more threads of people who think they are the first to decypher it, when it has already been done so.

WAIT! The black cat on the right? Wasent there a black cat on the left down side of that third party page which had absolutley nothing with half-life to do?