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Now that the dust has settled on yesterday’s Nintendo Direct Mini, Valve fans are discovering that the Portal: Companion Collection on Nintendo Switch is actually a pretty sweet bargain. At the time of writing, you can pick up (opens in new tab) the collection for $19.99 / £13.49 on the …

Portal: Companion Collection is launching on Nintendo Switch later today.  Just earlier today on June 28 during a brand new Nintendo Direct Mini focusing on third-party games, it was revealed that the Portal: Companion Collection would launch onto Nintendo Switch later today. The collection bundles together Portal and Portal 2 …

Portal’s first level has been spectacularly recreated using Unreal Engine 5. Valve’s clever mix of portal-based puzzles and dark humour made Portal an instant hit when it was released in 2007. Its sequel, Portal 2, is now a decade old, and despite the series’ success, Valve has yet to deliver …

A datamine of Valve’s recent Aperture Desk Job tech demo found traces of a Half-Life: Alyx follow-up and canceled Portal game. As spotted by VGC (opens in new tab), YouTuber Tyler McVicker (opens in new tab) discovered a number of interesting things buried within Aperture Desk Job’s code. The four …

A fan-made crossover between Celeste and Portal developed in the same engine as the original Celeste is now available to play. The homage game, known as Caroline, was designed by ‘Meep’, also known as @M33pinator (opens in new tab) on Twitter, and ‘Lord SNEK’, and is currently available to play …

Female game characters have come a long way since the days where Lara Croft and Princess Peach were the only ones flying the feminine flag, and the results are rather awe-inspiring. As developers and the industry as a whole finally realise that girls that play games aren’t a myth, there’s …

Portal was an instant classic but it didn’t start that way, beginning instead as simple student game before Valve saw the potential and snapped up the team. Over the years the simple (?) idea of space-warping portals was refined more than anything else – most changes seeing tweaks to the …

Always on Gamers dislike many things and many people, but if theres one company that they have (almost) universally come to revere, its Valve. Its pretty easy to see why. Its the company behind Steam, the most popular PC gaming platform in the world and the bearer of irresistible game …

Trendy Entertainment’s newest title Dungeon Defenders has got a sweet package thanks to some help from Valve. By pre-ordering the toon shaded tower defense game on Steam, you’ll get an Aperture Science’s portal device for the huntress hero class and four Team Fortress 2 familiars to assist your team. What’s …