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ABRAMS CONFIRMS HALF LIFE MOVIE , HINTS AT PORTAL
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A the Half Life franchise is on the way . Fortunately for the ' Half Life 3 confirmed ' meme , it ' s not a new game , but a film .
Though the existence of a movie based on Valve ' s huge shooter franchise has been known for three years , noted director JJ Abrams this month updated fans on its progress , and also hinted at a Portal film .
He told IGN : " We have a meeting coming up next week with Valve , we ' re very active , I ' m hoping that there will be a Portal announcement fairly soon .
" As someone who loves playing Half Life and Portal , what ' s the movie of this , it ' s incredible when you talk to someone who just ' gets ' it , it ' s like , oh my god , it ' s really the seed for this incredible tree you ' re growing ."
Talk of incredible trees aside , video games adapted to films do not have a sterling track record - and the prospect of bringing Half Life and Portal , both of which feature silent protagonists , to the big screen is a task for even the best writers and directors .
POKEMON GOVERWHELMED
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It might seem obvious that a series as massive as Pokémon making the leap to mobile could have caused a lot of traffic , but the thought appears not to have occurred to developers Niantic .
Writing on the Google Cloud Platform Blog , Google ' s Director of customer reliability engineering , Luke Stone , said data use from Pokémon Go exceeded the company ' s estimates by a factor of 50 - and their worst case scenario ten times over . “ Niantic ’ s Pokémon GO was an all-handson-deck launch that required quick and highly informed decisions across more than a half-dozen teams .
" The sheer scale and ambition of the game required Niantic to tap architectural and operational best-practices directly from the engineering teams who designed the underlying products .
“ It was a rare pleasure to be part of such a memorable product launch that created joy for so many people around the world .”
At launch , Pokémon Go was plagued with server issues , and drew fire for its accidental granting of permission to access all information on Android phones .