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Portal: The five best DIY maps, plus 30 more

Everyone loves Portal. It is, for all intents and purposes, a perfect game. Though it is very short. However, thanks to Valve being the definition of a user-focused developer, an official Portal level-editing kit was bundled onto the web some time ago, and now there's a whole collection of user-made levels to enjoy.

But where do you start? Well, Games Radar discovered a 35-map pack (plus an extra map ) and hooked it up to FileRadar, then they picked out the best five maps from the collection.

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Classic Valve Titles Now in Enhanced Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility Collection

The Xbox One Backward Compatible versions of Xbox 360 titles Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, The Orange Box, and Portal are now enhanced for Xbox One X, Microsoft announced.

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lxeasy2017d ago

Nothing but great memories with all these games! Playing Left for dead series during the college years with friends was the best.

Skull5212016d ago

Love to see titles coming to BC with enhancements. Would love even more to see Half Life 3.

gangsta_red2017d ago

To not have another Left 4 Dead is straight up criminal.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH2017d ago

So many memories of throwing my controller with Portal lol.

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How Valve released five of its greatest games in a single day

The year is 2007. Console owners tap their fingers in barely contained impatience. For years they have been starved of Valve's delicious, full-bodied courses, forced to watch from the bleachers as Valve mixes a unique blend of kinetic first-person with extraordinary tech. Besides a brief dalliance with the original Xbox and the PlayStation 2 - which produce pale imitations of its best work - Valve has remained faithful to the PC.

And then, in a flash, five of them arrive at once; neatly packaged morsels for a new generation reared on Microsoft's & later Sony's consoles. Five games, all in one orange box. Valve serves the PC too, for it is October 18 - a day of celebration - and everyone should feast.

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2pacalypsenow2382d ago

Man 2007 was a great year for gaming.

OpenGL2381d ago

Valve didn't really "release" 5 of its greatest games in a single day, Half-Life 2 came out 3 years before The Orange Box. In no other context do we talk about a port being the "release" of a game.

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Fist4achin2381d ago

The orange box was an excellent release. I don't think Valve will do much beyond online only games now.

AuraAbjure2381d ago

Thanks for making the source 2 game engine valve it's legit.

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Valve reflects on The Orange Box, ten years later

Robin Walker discusses the impact of Portal, Team Fortress 2 and more.

pwnsause_returns2389d ago

shut up valve....give me HL3....

FallenAngel19842389d ago

Back when Valve made a lot of great titles

-Foxtrot2388d ago

Little cheeky to talk about it when you know we're still waiting for Half Life 3...the Orange Box included Episode 2 and is still left unfinished story wise to this day.

At this rate we better get a second Orange Box. Half Life 3, Half Life Remake (Black Mesa Mod), TF3 or L4D3 and the HL spin offs like Blue Shift.

Reefskye2387d ago (Edited 2387d ago )

Don't know what valve are going to do with Half Life after Mike Laidlaw posted the short version of Episode 3 in August and changed the names and genders.