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The indie game that inspired Portal 2 is now free to play on Steam. As first reported by PCGamesN (opens in new tab) , Tag: The Power of Paint is now entirely free to play and keep over on Steam. For those unfamiliar with the game, it blends puzzling and …

Portal’s GLaDOS is one of the most memorable villains of all time, but would you believe Valve only added her in to make people realize they weren’t just playing an extended tutorial? We came so close to a world without the casually murderous artificial intelligence, and we only found out …

The Portal film adaptation that Star Wars: The Force Awakens (opens in new tab) director J.J. Abrams and Valve co-founder Gabe Newell teased way back in 2013 (opens in new tab) is still happening. We’ve heard next to nothing about the project since then, but IGN (opens in new tab) …

Portal has a few fundamental rules, and this is the big one: when you go in one portal, you come out the other. Doesn’t matter how far apart they are. But what happens when you smoosh two portals together like physics-defying bread and stick yourself in the middle like foolhardy …

The Game Developers Choice Awards were held last night during GDC 2012, and paid tribute to industry’s best games and game makers of 2011. Bethesda was the big winner of the event, scoring the night’s Game of the Year award for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (opens in new tab), …

2011 was indeed a great year to be a gamer. Heres our buyers guide of the top must-own games from the calendar year. Have you played them all? Portal 2 Portal 2 review (opens in new tab)Portal 2 screens (opens in new tab)Portal 2 videos (opens in new tab) Batman: …

Come on, we all know what your Christmas haul will look like. You’ve asked for Batman: Arkham City on 360 but you’ll get LEGO Batman for Wii. You’ve asked for a Superdry hoodie but you’ll get a jumper from M%26S. You’ve asked for rare Deadpool graphic novels from eBay but …

On a scale of one to “holy crap these are awesome,” robotic engineer Chris Myles’s replica Portal 2 PersonalityCores fall somewhere between “damn I want one now” and “seriously, I would kick a puppy for these – just say the word.” Granted, this rating system needs some fine-tuning, but you …

Portal 2’s turrets are so gosh darn charming, it’s easy to forget that their main function is to straight up murder your ass with cold, remorseless efficiency. Sadly, it’s this one small detail that makes them all but impossible to market in the real world, but one Canadian tinkerer has …

Chris, Tyler and Lizzie are joined byPC Gamer (opens in new tab)’s Evan Lahti and Anthony Valva for a SPOILER-FREE look at Portal’s brain-wrenching co-op mode. Get this straight, readers: Several of us in the office have played through Portal 2 several times already. I personally played through myself and …