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Portal

Portal is a puzzle game made by Valve. The game sees its protagonist use a portal gun to traverse Aperture Laboratories and get away from GLaDOS.
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Apex Legends team unveils Half-Life, Portal-themed Charms for Steam

Apex Legends, Baby Wattson Charm
Apex Legends' development team held a dev stream recently, where they showed off the Charms coming once the game comes to Steam with the rest of EA's catalogue.

Valve's unreleased Portal prequel shown off by indie developer

There aren't many studios that can rival Valve's capacity to keep the lid on a yet-to-be-released project and the latest news once again confirms this, as it took an indie dev LunchHouse Software to show us F-Stop, Portal's unreleased prequel.

Portal 2 gets an update, improves co-op options

Eight years after release, Portal 2 got an update. Players will now have an easier time solving puzzles even if they don't have two controllers connected.

Half-Life 2 and Portal 2 writer Erik Wolpaw has returned to Valve

picture showing two characters
Erik Wolpaw, the man who co-wrote Portal 2, both Half-Life 2 episodes and Left 4 Dead is back at Valve two years after he left the company. Wolpaw follows his colleague writer Jay Pinkerton who also returned to Valve in July last year.

Steam's bounty hacker uncovers a free game generating bug

Picture of a $20 bill with Valve's Gabe Newell smiling
Bounty hacker Artem Moskowsky has managed to trick Steam's client into giving him a bunch of games for free under certain circumstances. Tempting, yes, but reporting the bug to Valve netted him a fat check of $20,000 from uncle Gabe.

Jay Pinkerton, co-writer of Portal 2 has returned to Valve

A picture of a messed up dude that has a valve instead of an eye.
Jay Pinkerton's name was spotted on Valve's employee list by one of Reddit's sleuths, hinting that the co-writer of Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress comics returned to the fold. Valve later confirmed this to be true.

Valve releases a Portal themed demo for their VR controllers

Moondust tech demo
Valve released a new Portal themed demo called Moondust with a purpose to showcase their Knuckles EV2 which are virtual reality controllers. The new controllers are going to ship out to hundreds of developers for testing according to Valve.

Portal 2 is the best game according to Steam, not The Witcher 3

Screenshot of GlaDOS' new body from Portal 2
Contrary to what many players might think when asked about the best rated game on Steam, The Witcher 3 does not take the #1 spot. It belongs to Portal 2, which has around 98 per cent positive reviews, one per cent above The Witcher 3.

Red Dead Redemption, Gears of War 2 and more get Xbox One X high fidelity treatment

Dawn showdown with men on horses
With yesterday's news of Microsoft benevolently bestowing Xbox One compatibility on some of its older Xbox offerings, comes news of Xbox One X enhancements for five games as well as addition of backwards compatibility for Sonic Generations.

Super-duper memorable and fun quotes spoken by video game characters

Wonder what G-Man will be like in VR. Will he appear though?
Lines of dialogue and other spoken or written text in video games gives us a deeper understanding of the game and its lore. A good quote can make you think, other times laugh or rage quit, and here I'm listing a couple of each.