Portal

With Team Fortress 2 (TF2) and Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (HL2:EP2) packed into the Orange Box, most people who bought the pack won’t even bother with Portal until they’ve had their share of the other two first. If you’re one of...

It hurts your brain, Brilliant audio work, Genius level designs, We wanted...

Name: PortalGenre: Puzzle/First Person Shooter Platform: PC, Xbox360 (Reviewed on PC)The crowning achievement of the Orange Box is the game Portal. Portal is a puzzle/first-person-shooter hybrid that believes that people want something different.The...

Portal might strike some as huge tease — an insanely promising play scheme cut short by criminally brief length. If the game was miserable this wouldn’t sting so badly, but unfortunately for Valve Portal is one of their most brilliant titles among a catalog of brilliant titles. Buy it, play it and pray for map expansions.

Out this week is The Orange Box, a new package of games from Valve Software that includes the classic first person shooter Half-Life 2, its two "episodic" mini-sequels, a long-awaited multiplayer shooter called Team Fortress 2, and finally, the focus...

Editors Note: This is a spoiler-free review. Also, this is one of three separate GameSpy.com reviews for titles included in The Orange Box package, as PC versions are being sold separately via Valves Steam digital download service. For more, see...

VIDEO: Head over to our videos page to check out all Portal footage!The firstborn commercial child of game design-school grads (and obvious beneficiary of Valve's godfathering), Portal was to be a value-added bonus, a puzzle anthology played from...

When students from DigiPen showed off their project Narbacular Drop to a room full of Valve personell, they probably didnt expect that they would not only be hired, but given a budget to expand that idea into something as special as we see with...