Portal 2 Set for February Release

Valve has announced that the delayed Portal 2 will hit stores on February 9 2011.

It was disappointing when we first heard that Portal 2 would be pushed back, clear out of 2010 until sometime next year, but according to a tweet from Geoff Keighly, we won’t have too long to wait.

For those that missed the original, you have time to rectify your mistake, and go pick it up now. For the rest of us, we will have to wait until February 9.

The game takes place several hundred years after the original, but judging from what we saw at E3, the core mechanics of the original remain intact. The game is set once again in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, only time has not been kind, and decay and overgrowth have set in. Once again GLaDOS returns, and she blames you for murdering her at the end of the first game.