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Portal At The Pictures: Lab Ratt
Portal has been a surprisingly prolific source of inspiration for many high quality products, so a short fifteen minute film based on its universe isn’t that big of a deal any more. However, what I...
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Bring Your Valve To School Day: Teach With Portals
Year after year, many schools struggle to teach kids basic math and reading skills. Portal, on the other hand, taught my childlike, directionally-crippled brain a slew of hyper-complex spatial...
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Valve On Why Games Could Very Well Fix Education
The first time I ever played Portal was damn near magical. Each room I walked into held promise of some diabolical new assault on both my brain and the laws of physics, but I made them look like...
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Box News: Portal Legos, Limbo Special Edition
Welcome to RPS’ first (and probably only) edition of Box News, an attempt at providing fair and balanced coverage of that most marginalized of objects in this digital age – the box – on the first day...
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Space P-Body: Portal Goes To The ISS
Does P-Body sound at all like ‘oddity’? I don’t think it does, does it? That’s why I’m torturously explaining my lame gag here. That’s why they pay me the almost adequate bucks. Not to mention that...
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A Timely Test: Portal 8 1/2 Minute Speed Run
The Sourceruns team have completed a 8:31.93 run of Portal, which is absolutely ridiculous, brilliantly devious and laudably investigative. The latter descriptor is appropriate because of the level of...
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Gaming Made Me: Jonathan Coulton
Interrupted while coiling his precious cables, the sound guy glowers at me. “Scarface? What?” Now, the way you can tell games journalists aren’t like other journalists is our shame. We’re shy, we lack...
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J.J. Abrams’ Portal Script Leak Probably!
With yesterday’s news that Valve and J.J Abrams are working on a potential Portal movie, RPS immediately sent its spies into action. Infiltrating Valve HQ, we managed to steal three pages of script...
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Untold Riches: An Analysis Of Portal’s Level Design
Words by Hamish Todd. Portal has the best-designed first-person puzzles I’ve ever seen. They’re surprising, focused, and concise. They are also designed very perceptively, and we can learn a lot from...
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Rise & Shine: Games Drawn As Children’s Book Covers
Consider this your daily dose of nice. Artist Joey Spiotto, aka Joebot, draws films and videogames as the covers of children’s books. His game work includes imagined covers for Half-Life 2 (above, in...
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Steam Music Player Out Of Beta, Valve’s Soundtracks Free
In almost every strategy, management or sim game I play, I will immediately turn off the music which comes with the game in favour of my own. That means that Steam Music Player sounds like a good idea...
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Portal 2 Level Reinterprets Companion Cube’s Doom
GLaDOS, GLaDOS, oh so monstrous, How does your garden grow? With portable cells and many dead Chells, And propulsion gel all in a row. The original Portal’s Test Chamber 17 is notoriously the level in...
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Video: Take A Short Peek At Valve’s Portal 2 VR Prototype
Industrious internet users at Reddit have dug up brief footage of Valve’s Portal 2 VR demo, the one which was playable at GDC last week and which made me so giddy. … [visit site to read more]
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The 25 Best Puzzle Games Ever Made
The world’s most accurate ranking of the 25 best puzzle games ever to reach a computer. Plucking the peak of PC puzzling, we break down what makes them so special, and put them in the correct order....
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Portal Pinball. Need I Say More?
It takes a very special something to make me excited about a pinball game. I played Pokemon Pinball to death, way back when, but very few pinball games since have really captured my attention. Until...
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Cardboard Children: Portal
Hello youse. A few years back, there was an obscure little indie game on PC called “Portal”. It was about using portals to solve environmental puzzles, and those of us in the know had an absolute...
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Sonic 2 Hack Gives Hedgehog A Portal Gun
If you were a Mega Driver back in the day (or Genesis-er if you live Stateside) then you’ll know Sonic 2 was the best Sonic. The original Sonic the Hedgehog introduced the concept and set the tone,...
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Rocket League Portal DLC Doesn’t Contain Portals
A free Portal-themed set of cosmetic items and flourishes will arrive in Rocket League [official site] tomorrow. There are gel trails for your nitro boosts, cake hats and decals, and heart-breaking...
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J.J. Abrams: Half-Life & Portal Movies “In Development”
Half-Life and Portal movies are “in development”, according to JJ Abrams. The director told IGN that “We’ve got writers, and we’re working on both those stories. But nothing that would be an exciting...
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