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How is Portal and Half Life connected?

The link between the Portal
Portal
Portal consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player's character and simple objects using "the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device", often referred to as the "portal gun", a device that can create inter-spatial portals between two flat planes.
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series and Half-Life series is that both series are in the same world. As in that they have direct relation to each other. In Portal 2
Portal 2
Portal 2 is a first-person perspective puzzle game. The player takes the role of Chell in the single-player campaign, as one of two robots—Atlas and P-Body—in the cooperative campaign, or as a simplistic humanoid icon in community-developed puzzles.
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, you see in an Easter Egg of the Borealis, from Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve. It was published by Valve through its distribution service Steam. Like the original Half-Life (1998), Half-Life 2 combines shooting, puzzles, and storytelling, and adds features such as vehicles and physics-based gameplay.
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being built. We probably will learn more in the next few games, as bitmask has pointed out.
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Is Half-Life and Portal linked?

The Portal series, which takes place in the same universe as the Half-Life games, is a series of puzzle games developed by Valve. The first game in the series, Portal, was initially released alongside Episode Two in The Orange Box on October 10, 2007.
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Is Portal canon to Half-Life?

The canon of the Half-Life and Portal series has largely never been officially defined by Valve. Half-Life series writer Marc Laidlaw stated that the issue of canon is "something the fans came up with" and that they do not have an official stance on it.
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Where does Portal fit in the Half-Life timeline?

200- This is the period during which Portal is set. It occurs a short amount of time after the Combine invasion of Earth.
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Is GLaDOS in Half-Life?

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She is the main antagonist throughout Portal and the first half of Portal 2's single-player campaign. As the overseer and highest of authorities of the Enrichment Center, GLaDOS resides in the Central AI Chamber.
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Is Chell the daughter of GLaDOS?

1. GLaDOS says multiple times that Chell was adopted. 2. Chell is(was) the child of one of the employees at Aperture science and came in for bring your daughter to work day were she made a potato for the science competition that mutated out of control.
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Why does GLaDOS call Chell fat?

GLaDOS had started fat shaming Chell, who looks to weigh in the ballpark of 120–140 lbs. The comments comparing Chell to a whale or hot air balloon were clearly not interpretations of the in game reality, but an attempt to make Chell feel bad about their physical appearance.
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How is Chell alive in Portal 2?

Chell reappears in Portal 2 where she is reawakened by Wheatley. She and Wheatley attempt to escape the laboratory, and in the process accidentally reanimate GLaDOS. GLaDOS, furious with Chell for having "murdered" her, forces her to do more tests until Wheatley helps her escape.
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Is Left 4 Dead in the Half-Life universe?

From the loading screens to the Director and of course the mission endings, everything about Left 4 Dead makes it look like a film, rather than an actual event. Perhaps the Left 4 Dead games are just films in the Counter-Strike or Half-Life universe, using locations that were once the scene of a terrorist attack.
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Why is Portal called hl2?

Because all/most of their games are build on the Source Engine. The Source Engine was originally made for Half-Life 2.
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Why did Portal 2 remove blood?

Portal 2 has no blood though because they wanted to get the game's rating moved down from Teen to Everyone.
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How old is Portal 1?

Portal was acclaimed as one of the most original games of 2007, despite criticisms for its short duration and limited story. It received praise for its originality, unique gameplay and dark story with a humorous series of dialogue.
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How long was Chell asleep?

It's not exactly clear how much time Chell has spent in stasis between events of Portal and Portal 2. At the beginning of Portal 2 she's woken up first time after 50 days of sleep, for mandatory set of physical and mental exercises.
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Are there humans left in Portal?

But you may also notice Portal's distinct lack of human bodies other than that of the silent protagonist Chell—and even then you'll only be able to catch a glimpse of her via strategically placed portals. In other words, she's effectively rendered invisible, not typically meant to be seen.
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Will there be a Portal and Half-Life crossover?

Death Stranding Half-Life and Portal crossover debuted with the 2020 PC release, and later arrived on consoles with the Director's Cut edition. Hidden in the game are bonus missions themed around finding companion cubes.
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Is Portal and Portal still alive the same?

Portal: Still Alive is an Xbox 360 Live Arcade exclusive edition of Portal released on October 22, 2008. It features the original game, with various new levels and 9 new achievements.
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Who is the creepy guy in Half-Life?

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The G-Man is an enigmatic and mysterious character that appears in nearly every title of the Half-Life series. Referred to as a "sinister interdimensional bureaucrat", he is known to display peculiar behavior and wield reality-bending powers. The G-Man's identity and motives remain unexplained.
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Does Half-Life ever reach zero?

The half-life is plotted as a red point. One funny property of exponential decay is that the total mass of radioactive isotopes never actually reaches zero. The mass just keeps getting closer and closer to zero as the amount of time for the isotope to decay gets larger and larger.
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Who is the guy at the end of Half-Life?

Half-Life 2: Episode Two ends with a cliffhanger. Gordon Freeman (who accidentally opened an inter-dimensional portal in Half-Life) has reawakened from a 20-year stasis to find Earth conquered by the alien Combine.
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Is Chell actually mute?

As with all the playable characters in the Half-Life universe, with the exception of Alyx Vance, Chell is silent. However, female Citizen sounds (by Mary Kae Irvin) are reused when she is hurt in the first game.
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Why is Chell mute in Portal?

Valve's Erik Wolpaw has said one of the reasons Chell doesn't speak in Portal 2 is because she is a silent protagonist which "could be anyone." "[Chell] could be anyone," Wolpaw said during a NYU's Game Center talk. "It could be you.
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Who is the face of Chell?

Alésia Toyoko Glidewell (born December 8, 1978) is an American video game actress, voice actress, model, and director who served as the base for Chell's face and body.
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Why was Caroline turned into GLaDOS?

Johnson later appointed her as his successor as one of his dying wishes. Although the length of her tenure as CEO is unknown, it is clear that Johnson prized her enough to have her essence extracted into a core to oversee the Facility's operations, the core of which became GLaDOS. Caroline is voiced by Ellen McLain.
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What race is Chell?

Her ethnic background is somewhat ambiguous; she appears to be of Latin or multiracial descent, and Valve concept artist Matt Charlesworth described her as having "a hint of Japanese ethnicity." (Chell's face and body model, Alésia Glidewell, has a Brazilian-American father and a Japanese mother.)
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