[FAKE] PORTAL 3 Exclusive to PS3?

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Were you just as surprised as we were when Left 4 Dead 2 was announced, at Microsoft’s 2009 E3 presser, to hit store shelves just one year after the original did? It seems like the usually-mysterious, typically-slow Valve has yet another one-two punch up its sleeve.

According to a well-placed source from deep within Valve Corp’s camp, the developer is set to drop another Electronic Entertainment Expo bombshell at Sony’s conference this year, revealing that the recently patched relationship between the two is continuing to produce some amazing fruits: a Steam-run and -operated Portal 3, exclusive to the PlayStation 3 (thanks to Microsoft’s amazingly constrained Xbox Live parameters), releasing next summer – just a tad over a year after Portal 2’s April 19th ship date.

That’s the definite. The still-hazy, just-a-consideration-for-now part? The game will support 3D, on both the PS3 and PC, and – just maybe – Move controls, although we’ve all seen just how well motion control rumors panned out with the current release.

Our source has provided some incredibly – and consistently – reliable information in the past, but given just how much secrecy shrouds Portal 3, we’ll still chalk all of this up to rumor… for now. Except all to be made official at this June’s E3.