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Portal 2′s Crimes Against Nature Immortalised In Mechanical Tribute

Portal 2′s Frankenturrets were a hilarious abomination, but there’s absolutely nothing horrific about this perfect recreation of one by Corroder666. The replica would be worth money/applause were it just something that sat there, but the fact he went to the trouble of making it move is just superb.


3D Builder/Magician Is Selling Portal-Themed Drink Coasters

3D builder/magician Psychobob — you’ve seen his stuff before — is selling these Portal-themed drink coasters, so your companion coffee cup has somewhere to rest its weary butt.


Watch Some Of GLaDOS’s Best Moments In Poker Night 2

Poker video games aren’t usually done well. They’re historically cheap, flavourless games without a lot of personality. Telltale’s Poker Night 2 does not suffer from those problems, particularly when it comes to its dealer, GLaDOS.


Make Your Own Official Portal Cakes With Official Portal Cake Mix

Your next baking session can crack jokes like it was 2007 now that official Aperture Science cake mix has been made available. It comes with the candle, 275g of cake mix, 50g of cream powder, chocolate flakes and 80g of liquid thickener. All you need to complete the thing are some cherries and a post-apocalyptic underground science laboratory.


Not Sure If This Cartoon Chell Is Cute Or Crazy

Brazilian illustrator Rayner Alencar drew this amazing picture of Portal’s Chell. It will satisfy my urge to see a Dreamworks animated version of the series while I wait for Alex Zemke to finish up the other Dreamworks-looking Portal project, his animated short.


This Trailer For The Portal Web Show Aperture R&D Is Scientifically Delicious

Nobody likes movies based on video games, with very few exceptions. That said, we’re far from giving up on fan-made web shows based on video games. Case in point: this trailer for Machinima and Wayside Creations’ Portal series, Aperture R&D.


A Portal Bathroom Would Probably Call You Fat

Cartoonist Stephen Lester is “currently on a mission to fill his home with vintage video games and video game memorabilia”. Part of that involves his guest bathroom, which is becoming a themed shrine to Valve’s Portal series.


Heartwarming Valentine’s Day Song From Chell To Her Companion Cube

Portal may not seem like the most romantic game ever, seeing as how it’s populated with a bunch of robots and only a single human character. But even all these years later, people still haven’t gotten over protagonist Chell and her doomed relationship with the heart-decorated Companion Cube.


DS Homebrewing Still Going Strong With Portal Adaptation

The DS still is home to a robust homebrew scene, as we see here in this Portal port that modder Smealum has been working on for about the past six months. “Still nowhere near playable,” he writes under the latest video, but it’s brought along Portal staples like turrets, cubes, switches and energy balls.


J.J. Abrams: Half-Life And Portal Movies Are In Early Development

Appearing with the director J.J. Abrams at D.I.C.E. Summit today, Valve’s Gabe Newell said the company would “find out if there’s a way we can work with you on a Portal and Half-Life movie.”


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