The Infinite Stream 09/02/2012

The Infinite Stream is where we post about items that are news-worthy but not necessarily require their own full article.  Check after the jump for news from 09/02/2012!

Bethesda & Valve team-up to release Portal 2 mod for Skyrim

To coincide with the release of the Skyrim Creation Kit, and the bonus HD texture pack, Valve and Bethesda thought to deliver an easter-eggy type mod for our enjoyment - enter Fall of the Space Core!

The mod introduces the one element that Elder Scrolls fans said was missing from Skyrim : voiceover work from Nolan North!

With this mod Skyrim truly becomes the greatest game of all time surely?  I'll let you be the judge, while I promise to never again call you Shirley.

(Via Kotaku)

Original Pokemon (Gameboy) games to become bricked?

I've just read a pretty interesting blog post - I have no idea how likely it is to be true but, if it is, it's kind of sad in an 'end of an era' kind of way.

Anyway, the gist is that waaaaaay back in 1998 or so, the Generation I and II pokemon games were powered by tiny batteries that allowed the game to always be powered on, even when you turned the console off, so the saving mechanisms would work properly.  Now, these batteries needed to use so little power that they would last a very long time - about 15 years to be precise - so with the original Pokemon Red and Blue being released in 1998, that leaves us with about a year in which to re-play our first cartridges....if this is true.

Harbinger of wasted childhoods?

Red and Blue came out in Japan a full two years before we got them in the west, so we would have heard something about their 'Red and Blues' stopping working throughout last year if this '15 year battery' malarkey was the case surely (sorry)?

Only one way to find out I guess (Fight!), we keep firing up our old cartridges periodically over the next couple of years to see if they still work/have kept our precision-made, rare-candied super teams from the late nineties!  I'm game!

(Via Tech Day)

Commissioner Gordon has big role in Dark Knight Rises finale 

While doing an interview in aid of his Oscar nomination, Gary Oldman revealed that he once lost his script to the final film in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy.  He claimed it couldn't go in his hotel's safe, and he didn't want to carry it around with him, so he hid it in his room...and proceeded to forget where he put it!

A manlier mustachio has never been mustachioed

He later said that he felt "panic" as his was a complete script, unlike most other copies that had the ending left out - suggesting that Commissioner Gordon is there right to the bitter conclusion of the film.

It was always likely that Gordon was going to play a big part in the final film, but this sliver of information is the most anyone has had to go on for months - so act like you like it!

(Via ComicBookMovie)