The always-crafty folks at Valve have sent word announcing the Portal 2 showing scheduled to take place at the Regal Theater on June 14 has been cancelled. In an unexpected turn of events, the company is now promising a surprise in place of the event, courtesy of Portal’s fictional research corp Aperture Science:

Dear Subject Name Here,

Aperture Science is pleased to inform you that we have partnered with Valve to announce the gala CANCELLATION of the June 14 Portal 2 event at the Regal Theater. The event will be replaced by a surprise. And even though the cancellation of the event certainly counts as a surprise, we are pleased to further announce that the cancellation of the event is not THE surprise. However, per International treaties regarding the definition of the word “surprise”, of which both Aperture Science and Valve are signatories, the time, date and content of the actual surprise will only become available as you experience the surprise.

Well played, Valve. They’ve thrown us off guard yet again. Wonder what the actual surprise could be? We’ll find out in 2 weeks.

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