Ryan Block » Game of the Year http://ryanblock.com Editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new web startup: gdgt. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:37:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Portal: game of the year. Blocks: protagonist of the century. http://ryanblock.com/2008/01/portal-game-of-the-year-blocks-protagonist-of-the-century/ http://ryanblock.com/2008/01/portal-game-of-the-year-blocks-protagonist-of-the-century/#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:15:01 +0000 Ryan Block http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/01/portal-game-of-the-year-blocks-protagonist-of-the-century/ Portal: cake and companion cubeAs a Block, you’ve no idea the amount of joy it brings me to see the humble cube finally get its comeuppance. Not only does Portal make stars of the simple and six-sided, but now Joystiq has shown its proper appreciation by awarding it Game of the Year. It had some stiff competition from such Ryan-faves as COD4, Bioshock, and especially Rock Band, but is it any wonder Portal is my new favorite game?

-Ryan “Veronica’s Weighted Companion Cube” Block

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