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Yoniq's Kickstarter For The Duo & Portal Handhelds Are Going Live This Year
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Плановые технические работы на серверах Active Matter
Hello, Operatives! On September 22nd, from 07:00 UTC to approximately 07:30 UTC, we will be performing scheduled maintenance on the Active Matter servers. The Agency apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciates your patience during the calibration of portals to the Multiverse.
This retro handheld asks "what if the PS Portal looked like a PS2 DualShock controller?", but I doubt Sony will let it fly
The Yoniq Portal looks exactly like a PS2 DualShock with a screen in the middle, but Sony probably has something to say about its PlayStation symbols.
The Backrooms’ Kane Parsons is hanging around with Valve again—could a Portal movie be in the works?
Now he's thinking with portals. Maybe. The post The Backrooms’ Kane Parsons is hanging around with Valve again—could a Portal movie be in the works? appeared first on Destructoid.
Portal could've had "a bunch of gore and dead bodies" if one dev had his way, says Valve veteran, but Gabe Newell considered it "the stupidest question ever"
"It's a horrible idea," says Chet Faliszek
Capcom reveals the most popular Resident Evil characters
Capcom has revealed the most popular Resident Evil characters as part of a new fan poll. This was a new initiative that the company kicked off back in July to celebrate the series’ 30th anniversary. Fans were able to vote for their favorite characters via the Resident Evil Portal to rank the...
Apex Legends: Latest Update 9/17/2026
KNOWN ISSUE: Happy Split Two launch week, everyone. We are currently tracking and working to resolve the following bugs: -Entering an Alter portal may drop players in the incorrect place -Players are able to clip through the ground of some structures on Broken Moon -Game settings reset on startup...
Backrooms director & Portal superfan Kane Parsons spotted visiting Valve for the second time this year
s reported by IGN and Gabe Follower on X, Backrooms director Kane Parsons shared an Instagram story from Valve's Bellevue, Washington headquarters on September 16. The director has previously said that Portal was extremely influential on his work, inspiring hopes for a Parsons-led adaptation or...
Backrooms director & Portal superfan Kane Parsons spotted visiting Valve for the second time this year
A well-deserved victory lap, or something more?
Backrooms director posts from Valve's office again, and Portal movie speculation is intensifying
The young director and massive Portal fan continues to tease
Yoniq Has Also Listed The PS1 Portal Handheld Online With A Price
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Backrooms Director Kane Parsons Visits Valve Offices as Portal Movie Rumors Rise
Kane Parsons is fueling rumors of a potential Portal movie after he posted photos from his visit to Valve’s offices on his personal Instagram profile.
The Stream Team: Achieving Life in the Underworld in Guild Wars 2
Before Massively OP’s MJ moves on to Guild Wars 2’s Visions of Eternity finale, she has one thing left to wrap up in Living World Season 4. She needs the portal travel scroll for Dragonfall! Who wants to go the long way when you can just open up the tome and teleport directly? But to […]
Battlefield 6 Tidal Strike update launches today
Battlefield 6 has launched the final phase of Season 4 today with the Tidal Strike update, introducing a new Collection Event, fresh REDSEC content, expanded Portal modes and a week‑long free trial for new players. Season 4’s Tidal Strike update is available now, bringing new playlists,...
The Legend Of Zelda Meets Portal In New Puzzle Adventure
The Legend of Zelda is a fairly puzzle-laden series, one peppered with compelling dungeons teeming with mysteries and puzzles to be solved. While the later entries, namely the Wilds era, moved away from them just a little (although Breath of the Wild's shrines remain some of the best puzzles in...
2026’s Best Puzzle Game Is an Even Trippier Take On Portal
He Who Watches is an excellent new game that keeps the spirit of Portal alive with mind-bending puzzles.
gamescom 2026: Enshrouded Creative Director Wants To Keep The Game Going For Years To Come
After 505 Games decided to pull the plug on Portal Knights—arguably Keen Games’s breakout title at the time—the Frankfurt studio decided to cut their losses and go at it alone with their next project. Released in Early Access in 2024, open-world survival game Enshrouded was not just the culmination...
Desolus sets Nintendo Switch 2 release date, new trailer
The release date is in for Desolus, a first-person puzzle game that uses portals to traverse past and future realities. Nintendo Switch 2 owners can grab it on October 15, 2026. Desolus comes from Mark J. Mayers (Outer Wilds, Manifold Garden) and The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild. The game was...
Albion Online makes tweaks to Ancient Lands portals to combat camping in PvP zones
Nobody likes having to wait around to hop into an MMORPG activity, and that can certainly go double for those who are wiped out by PKers if the door to that activity happens to be in an FFA PvP zone. That’s the problem that Albion Online is currently dealing with as a result of its Dragonfire […]
Left 4 Dead 2 Dev Admits Valve Intentionally Leaked Its Own Trailer After the ESRB Blocked It from Release
Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has a confession to make: Valve intentionally leaked its own Left 4 Dead 2 trailer. The Half-Life and Portal veteran spilled the beans on the studio's past unconventional marketing tactics in a new video uploaded to his YouTube channel (via Ars Technica). Based on...
Portal: Alive & Kicking Is a Full Remake of the First Portal, Now Available
Portal fans, here is something for you today. Rhubarb & Rhubarb has released Portal: Alive & Kicking, a full remake of the first Portal game in the Portal 2 engine. Portal: Alive & Kicking is a full remake and reimagining of Valve’s Portal. It retells the original story of Chell and GLaDOS. It also...
Portal Gets A Demake Demo For The Game Boy Advance That Works On Real Hardware
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Twilight Towers unit tier list (September 2026)
There seems to be no end to, well, endless waves of enemies charging into some form of portal with no rhyme or reason. You always have to defend yourself just because, and somehow, there's always a wide range of towers, each one with very, very specific tasks, that can help you do just that. Such...
Portal: Alive & Kicking is a full remake and re-imagining of Valve's classic out now on Steam
Portal: Alive & Kicking has officially arrive on Steam, giving the classic Valve game Portal a bit of a makeover. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/portal-alive-kicking-is-a-full-remake-and-re-imagining-of-valves-classic-out-now-on-steam/
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