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The Ball: What would happen if you based a game on the Companion Cube?
Basically, it looks like what my title says: Somone saw the companion cube in Portal and decided to base a whole game around a similar concept. Basically you have this ball, and a gravity gun that only works on the ball, and you go around squashing badguys and solving puzzles in a sort of Meso-American secret volcano land.
Looks neat enough. Runs on the Unreal Engine 3 as far as I can tell.