The cake might be a lie, but this 1/1 scale Portal gun looks as real as one can get without being able to shoot holes in walls. More »
Nathan Drake has recently purchased a new MacBook, after talking to several of his friends about it for several weeks. He has done more discussing the MacBook than he has actually using it, and secretly he enjoys causing the icons to sort of ‘pop’ along the bar at the bottom of the screen more than he enjoys operating the various applications that have come with his new Apple experience. More »
To commemorate the opening of Skyrim’s fancy new Creation Kit on Valve’s Steam service, Bethesda and the creators of Portal have teamed up to release an official mod. Which brings Portal 2′s Space Core to Skyrim. More »
Join Michael Winslow — the noise-making star from Police Academy — on a cursory run through The History of video game SFX. Indeed the video is far from exhaustive, going from the blips of Pong (1972) to those of Portal (2007) without much in between: just a few other arcade legends and shooters. All sounds like a bunch of noise to me, but it’s still a lot of fun! More »
Portal 2‘s Cave Johnson rants about citrus fruit in this trailer for an “Electronic Combustible Lemon”, which, when ignited, plays an ominous ticking countdown followed by what I presume is the sound of lemons exploding. Sadly, the lemon itself does not explode. More »
At first, it’s just neat. Then it moves and then… then it talks. I’m already having nightmares of a 1000 micro-GLaDOSes with tiny headcrab legs scuttling over my sleeping, prostrate body. More »
The work of custom toy creator Christian Hooton is no stranger to Kotaku. Whether it’s StarCraft or Portal, Hooton’s craftsmanship dazzles. Check out his latest creation: a 7-inch Portal 2 Wheatley light-up toy. More »
Reader Adam is rightfully very proud of his new Portal-themed room, which doesn’t just look like a part of the series’ Aperture Science, it acts like it as well. More »
Nanotechnology engineering student TheObviousTrap created a 300 nanometer thick Aperture logo in an undergrad class. Bravo! More »
Creating orange and blue teleportation… hole… things like those found in Valve’s Portal series sounds awesome, but remember: in the real world, everything awesome is ultimately corrupted by arseholes. More »
