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Portal

Platforms

PC
PS3
Xbox 360

Initial releaseOct. 10, 2007

Developers

Valve
Valve Corporation
Valve Software

Genres

Platformer
Puzzle
Shooter

Publishers

Electronic Arts
Valve
Valve Corporation

FranchisePortal

Portal Feed

A plain white mug of black tea or coffee, next to a broadsheet paper on a table, in black and white. It's the header for Sunday Papers!

Feature

The Sunday Papers

Read More

May 19, 2024Nic Reuben

14 comments

A composite image from puzzle games: LeChuck from Return To Monkey Island, some weighted cubes from Portal, little ghosts from How To Say Goodbye and a banjo-playing alien from Outer Wilds, all in a forest from The Witness

Feature

The best puzzle games on PC

A very puzzling collection

April 10, 2024Alice Bell

55 comments

A puzzle room in Escape Simulator's Portal DLC, showing a laser passing through a cube

News

Escape Simulator is getting free Portal DLC

No need to Chell out

Aug. 16, 2023Matt Jarvis

Feature

Professional weird little guy Wheatley distills everything I love about Portal 2

He's awful, but also really great

Aug. 3, 2023Alice Bell

13 comments

The player aims the portal gun between a companion cube and portals in Portal: Prelude RTX

News

Portal: Prelude’s fan-made prequel gets a fancy RTX remaster, and it costs nothing (except a powerful graphics card)

Good luck running this on a potato

July 19, 2023Matt Jarvis

5 comments

The Weighted Companion Cube sits between two portals in Portal with RTX.

Feature

Portal with RTX is a flawed diamond of a ray traced remaster

And a promising showing for Nvidia’s RTX Remix mod tools

Dec. 22, 2022James Archer

12 comments

A cube sits next to a portal in a very shiny, ray-tracing enhanced testing facility

News

Portal with RTX has popped onto Steam, but good luck running it

Reason enough for a replay, anyway

Dec. 9, 2022Matt Cox

20 comments

A Portal with RTX screenshot showing a weighted cube on top of a large button.

News

Portal with RTX is launching December 8th, and there’s a shiny new trailer

Reflecting with portals

Nov. 29, 2022James Archer

17 comments

A render of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card.

News

Nvidia reveal the GeForce RTX 4080, RTX 4090, and Portal RTX

Starting at $899, new GPUs will support faster ray tracing and improved DLSS 3

Sept. 20, 2022James Archer

52 comments

Podcast

Ultimate Audio Bang #24: our pick of the best FPS guns that aren't guns

Some rogue choices and big tangents

Aug. 19, 2022Ed Thorn

An two-headed ogre from World Of Warcraft, Bioshock's Big Daddy and Heavy from Team Fortress 2 star in the RPS Time Capsule 2007 header.

Feature

RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2007

We list our favourite games from 2007, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else

July 29, 2022Katharine Castle

85 comments

RPS GOTY Revisited: 2007's Portal remains a lodestar for very good games

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RPS GOTY Revisited: 2007's Portal remains a lodestar for very good games

They don't make 'em like this anymore

March 4, 2022Alice Bell

54 comments

Brady, a blue circular robotic AI core, looks at the player character in Aperture Desk Job. Brady is wearing a fake moustache

Feature

Aperture Desk Job will yet again make you wish Valve made more games

Gaben, pls

March 2, 2022Alice Bell

14 comments

Portal - A player points their portal gun at a companion cube that's been placed on top of a large button. An orange portal is open on a wall on their right.

News

Portal speedrunner explains their wild tricks to Valve developers

"This is the thing that short papers have been written on"

Oct. 15, 2021Lauren Morton

3 comments

A picture of one of Portal 2's GladOS cores, with the text "Spaaaaaaaace!" trailing behind them.

Feature

Portal 2 is 10, so here are 10 facts you might not know

Our boy Wheatley really did make it into orbit

April 20, 2021Craig Pearson

19 comments

Fall Guys might be getting Portal and My Friend Pedro skins

News

Fall Guys might be getting Portal and My Friend Pedro skins

Looks like Chell and Pedro could be on the way

Aug. 17, 2020Imogen Beckhelling

3 comments

The 12 most useful inventions in PC games

Feature

The 12 most useful inventions in PC games

One Off The List

May 15, 2020Brendan Caldwell

13 comments

The most satisfying physics in PC games

Feature

The most satisfying physics in PC games

One Off The List

March 27, 2020Brendan Caldwell

41 comments

MacOS's 32-bit-breaking Catalina update is live, wreaking havoc on classic game collections

News

MacOS's 32-bit-breaking Catalina update is live, wreaking havoc on classic game collections

Time waits for no bits

Oct. 9, 2019Natalie Clayton

49 comments

Lara Croft prepares to smooch a llama in Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

Podcast

Podcast: The shipping forecast

Listen now and be intrigued

July 4, 2019RPS

7 comments

Charity speedrunning marathon Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 starts today

News

Charity speedrunning marathon Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 starts today

Gotta go fast

Jan. 6, 2019Jay Castello

12 comments

Erik Wolpaw is working with Valve again, because he never really stopped

News

Erik Wolpaw is working with Valve again, because he never really stopped

Anticlimatic

Jan. 4, 2019Alice O'Connor

23 comments

Valve demo new VR controls with Portal mini-games

News

Valve demo new VR controls with Portal mini-games

Unlike Oculus, Valve don't chuckle

June 21, 2018Dominic Tarason

17 comments

Wormhole Wars is the Portal arena deathmatch of your dreams

News

Wormhole Wars is the Portal arena deathmatch of your dreams

Now you're thinking with guns

April 8, 2018Brock Wilbur

13 comments

Bridge Constructor Portal isn't a rollercoaster of laughs, but it's still good

Feature

Bridge Constructor Portal isn't a rollercoaster of laughs, but it's still good

Bridging the gap

Jan. 10, 2018Brendan Caldwell

8 comments

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