Portal News

Portal - Update

An update has been released for Portal.

- Fixed a couple of rare crashes.

Portal 64 now has a playable 'first slice' with two-thirds of the game's test chambers

PCG has for several years now been keeping tabs on the incredible passion project of programmer James Lambert, a major N64 fan who decided to make a version of Portal for hardware first released in 1996. Lambert has shared various updates over the years about the project, most recently showcasing the game's opening, but things have just got real. Portal 64: The First Slice is now out of beta and free to download...
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Portal player achieves fastest-ever test subject death thanks to a speed-boosting cup

player has achieved the fastest-ever death in Portal thanks to some questionable physics and a cup. "I surprisingly got this pretty quickly," says Pr0tal, "I am now the king of dying in Portal!" The previous record for the Death% speedrun had stood at 1.3 seconds but Pr0tal smashed this, managing to kill themselves in the opening room in 0.885 seconds...
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Legend has spent years making Portal for the N64 and by Gaben he's done it

Several years ago PCG reported on the early stages of a project by programmer James Lambert, who really loves the N64 and decided for the hell of it to make a version of Portal that runs on hardware first released in 1996...
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Portal prequel mod brings stunning RTX visuals to Valve's classic

A full Portal prequel, detailing the story of GLaDOS and the inner workings of Aperture Science in the lead up to the events of the Valve puzzle game, has launched on Steam with full ray tracing and Nvidia DLSS 3 support. Originally created in 2008, just after the release of the original Portal, Portal Prelude is a full-length, fan-made campaign, containing 19 new test chambers, whole-new voice-acted characters, and a bespoke origin story for GLaDOS. And now, as a showcase for Nvidia's RTX Remix, it's back and looking better than ever, with totally overhauled visuals and some of the best-looking, well, portals we've ever seen.

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