Valve's Portal Coming as Tegra 4 Android App to Nvidia Shield

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Prepare for this modern classic in the palm of your hand.

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang had a "one more thing" announcement at his GTC keynote this morning, and that was news of Valve's Portal game coming to the Shield handheld.

"Nvidia has created a very powerful and unique device with Shield," said Doug Lombardi at Valve. "Our companies have a strong history working together and we're looking forward to Portal's arrival on Shield."

Neither company would commit to a release date other than "coming soon." We hope that this ushers in other ports of popular Source engine Valve games to Shield.

Also announced today is a temporary price drop for Shield down to $199 and remote GameStreaming.

Stay tuned for more from GTC.

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Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
8 Comments Comment from the forums
  • izayaorihara
    Beats the other on Android.

    Watch the language - G
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  • ltdementhial
    3DChainfire + tegra pugin = profit?
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  • ltdementhial
    3DChainfire + tegra pugin = profit?
    plugin*
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  • tadej petric
    We can play a 7 year old PC game on Shield. Yay?
    It may be 7y old but it's still one of the best games I've played.And even if I may do hate all these portable devices I think Valve made the right move with this. They're awesome as always.
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  • Cryio
    Portal 1 = A DirectX 6-9 game that will be ported to (probably) OpenGL ES3, that means Android 4.3 and up. Overall nice, but I'm not impressed.
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  • David Cruit
    At least it's better than modern combat.
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  • Djentleman
    First real console or pc to come to Android. Very impressive considering android chips that powerful in comparison to pc's.
    Reply
  • xyster
    JANE!!!
    Reply