Steam News · Jul 6
Hello everyone! The team here behind Portal 2: Community Edition has heard your enthusiasm and your thoughts, and we're happy to announce we're officially looking into supporting localization! Before we jump right in, however, we're conducting an interest survey.We want to know what languages you'd like to see, what languages you think we should prioritize, and if applicable, what languages you'd ...
Steam News · Jun 27
It's been two months since we entered open beta...With exclusive showcases from:Portal 2: Abyss...Portal: System Failure...and Portal: Intrusion...Let's take a look at what the community has created using Portal 2: Community Edition.Portal 2: Abyss have also posted their own devlog alongside the release of our video, go check it out!
Steam News · Apr 20
Portal 2: Community Edition has arrived now in Beta, bringing with it a whole lot of goodies for modders to play with. Read the full article here:
Steam News · Apr 17
Hey everyone! You read that right: we're entering Open Beta! You no longer need to apply to the closed beta to play and create with Portal 2: Community Edition: just add it to your library and hit launch (Portal 2 required). Our entire team is incredibly excited to bring you the result of the past 6 years of work put into this title and we hope that it was worth the wait. But we're not done develo...
Steam News · Apr 17
Join us counting down to the Open Beta of Portal 2: Community Edition.
Steam News · Apr 13
The Portal 2 modding scene is about to explode with the upcoming Beta release of Portal 2: Community Edition, giving you some big new tools. Read the full article here:
Steam News · Apr 11
Portal 2: Community Edition is entering Open Beta on April 17th 2026!The time has finally come!Portal 2: Community Edition is going to be entering Open Beta on April 17th 2026!This means that everyone will be able to play P2:CE - no key required! Please note, this is an OPEN BETA RELEASE, not a final release. This means there WILL BE BUGS AND ISSUES, however we're working hard to ensure the game i...
Steam News · Mar 18
It's been a little while. Let's discuss what we've been up to, and what's next for Portal 2: Community Edition.Volumetric LightingTo begin, as of today, all dynamic lights in the engine have been upgraded with the abiliy to produce real-time Volumetric Lighting effects within the game world.Our new Volumetric Lighting simulates aspects of light scattering through the environment, colliding with al...
Steam News · Nov 25, 2025
Portal 2: Community Edition - November 24th, 2025 Hotfix Additions (1) Added the texture parameter $detailmask to the PBR shader, which masks the detail texture Fixes (3) Fixed crash on shutdown Fixed issues with UI localization Fixed non-functional volume sliders Improvements (2) VBSP, VRAD and VVIS now accept -nogamemount and -nousermount When using -nogamemount switch, the game now will mount a...
Steam News · Nov 24, 2025
Portal 2: Community Edition - November 23rd, 2025 Update Additions (22) Added a "client" time version for Sound Operators output_entry_elapsed and output_stop_elapsed which use game client time instead of host time Added a note to the top of a VMF file if it's saved with any Strata extensions Added command cl_particles_dump_json to dump particle operators to a file Added command mat_reloadtexture ...
