Valve is known for taking great pleasure in teasing its fans. Especially if the teasing involves cake.
In a release sent by Aperture Science, they reveal that the Portal 2 event Valve was scheduled to hold at the Regal Theater on June 14th has been canceled, and a surprise will take place in its stead.
What this surprise is, nobody knows. The release explicitly notes that nothing written in it is, or is part of, the surprise.
Subject: A note from Aperture Science
Dear Subject Name Here,
Aperture Science is pleased to inform you that we have partnered with Valve to announce the gala CANCELLATION of the June 14 Portal 2 event at the Regal Theater. The event will be replaced by a surprise. And even though the cancellation of the event certainly counts as a surprise, we are pleased to further announce that the cancellation of the event is not THE surprise. However, per International treaties regarding the definition of the word “surprise”, of which both Aperture Science and Valve are signatories, the time, date and content of the actual surprise will only become available as you experience the surprise.
If you’d like to ask fruitless questions about the E3 Portal 2 surprise or, more fruitfully, schedule an appointment to attend a Portal 2 screening at the Valve booth during E3, please contact Valve’s Special Envoy to Surprises, Doug Lombardi.
Thank you for <<RECORD SCRATCH!!!>>
PS: The surprising record scratch is also not the surprise.
You really have to hand it to the fine folks at Valve, they know how to take a joke, and stretch it for all its worth without spreading it too thin.
Source: @NickChester via @Stepto
