Published on 20 Apr, 2021
Ten years ago, Valve released Portal 2. I’d like to think that the ultimate goal of Portal 2 was to get me to write an article about its tenth anniversary, so my ego wouldn’t let it go by. 10 is a nice age to celebrate, and it’s also the perfect number of random facts to pluck from the history of one of Valve’s most celebrated games. Also, I get to call them “decafacts”.
Portal 2 originally didn’t have any Portals in it
Valve’s initial experiments into a Portal follow-up jettisoned everything but Aperture Science. No Chell, no GLaDOS, no portals. No way!