Portal News

Valve's superfans are back to break the player concurrent record for Portal, but the challenge may be steeper than anyone has realised

I assumed that everyone with access to a PC would have played Portal at this point, but it seems this is far from the case, at least if Portal's all-time concurrent players are anything to go by. According to Steam Charts, the record for Steam player concurrents stands at just 3,370 players, which is apparently a quirk of the game launching before Steam kept accurate player records...
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Portal sicko beats the game with 'switched' wall textures so no surface is where it's meant to be, creating a whole new puzzling challenge in the process

Portal is not only one of the most mechanically inventive puzzle games ever made, but it's also one of the most elegantly crafted. Each of its Euclid-defying conundrums was built with surgical precision by Valve's mega-brain designers, created to slowly and specifically introduce you to the power of thinking with Portals...
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Portal - Update

An update has been released for Portal:

- Fixed some fire effects not working in some mods.

Portal - Update

An update has been released for Portal:

- Fixed a client crash in particles.
- Improvements to main menu layout across all resolutions.
- Fixed effects to not produce blood spray when getting shot.
- Fixed credits text on PC so ASCII art doesn't get clipped.

Portal - Update

An update has been released for Portal

- Fixed fire effects in the ending sequence.
- Fixed a crash in some mods when picking up a Half-Life 2 weapon.
- Fixed a main menu crash in some mods.
- Fixed chapter icon scaling in some menus.