{"id":66452,"date":"2014-05-12T22:50:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=66452"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:41:56","slug":"half-life-2-portal-released-on-android-nvidia-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/half-life-2-portal-released-on-android-nvidia-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life 2 and Portal released on Android as NVIDIA SHIELD exclusives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two iconic games from Valve have come to Android, for <a title=\"NVIDIA SHIELD official site\" href=\"http:\/\/shield.nvidia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NVIDIA SHIELD<\/a> owners that is. The SHIELD is a portable gaming console that plays Android games as well as streaming PC games when paired up with an NVIDIA graphics card.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Half-Life 2 for PC\" href=\"http:\/\/half-life-2.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Half-Life 2<\/a> is almost ten years old and it&#8217;s surprising the game didn&#8217;t come to Android sooner. Since it&#8217;s a first-person shooter, the game requires precise controls so it makes sense for it to debut on the SHIELD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/Portal-on-Android-568x319.jpg\" alt=\"Portal on Android\" title=\"Portal on Android\" width=\"568\" height=\"319\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/Portal-on-Android-568x319.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/Portal-on-Android-256x144.jpg 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/Portal-on-Android-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/Portal-on-Android-664x374.jpg 664w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/Portal-on-Android-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/Portal-on-Android-238x134.jpg 238w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/Portal-on-Android.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The original <a title=\"Portal review\" href=\"http:\/\/portal.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portal<\/a> is also pretty old, debuting seven years ago. The game received a ton of accolades when it debuted for its inventive puzzles and hilarious writing. Our own game&#8217;s editor, <a title=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/editor\/jonathan-riggall\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/editor\/jonathan-riggall\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Riggall<\/a> gave it a 9\/10.<\/p>\n<p>SHIELD owners will most likely have played these two games already but allowing gamers to take them on the go is a first. Hopefully Valve will bring Portal and Half-Life 2 to other Android devices in the future.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an NVIDIA SHIELD, you can pick up both games for $9.99 each in the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Half-Life 2 for NVIDIA SHIELD\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.nvidia.valvesoftware.halflife2\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Half-Life 2 for NVIDIA SHIELD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Portal for NVIDIA SHIELD\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.nvidia.valvesoftware.portal\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Portal for NVIDIA SHIELD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Via: <a title=\"Droid Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2014\/05\/12\/portal-and-half-life-2-released-on-google-play-exclusive-to-nvidia-shield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Droid Life<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Follow Lewis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/ea-closing-online-services-for-50-games-on-june-30th\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EA closing online services for 50 games on June 30th<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/the-best-android-games-to-play-with-kids\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The best Android games to play with kids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/the-walking-dead-season-2-episode-3-trailer\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the trailer for The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two iconic games from Valve have come to Android, for NVIDIA SHIELD owners that is. The SHIELD is a portable gaming console that plays Android games as well as streaming PC games when paired up with an NVIDIA graphics card. Half-Life 2 is almost ten years old and it&#8217;s surprising the game didn&#8217;t come to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/half-life-2-portal-released-on-android-nvidia-shield\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half-Life 2 and Portal released on Android as NVIDIA SHIELD exclusives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":66462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2867],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-66452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionhalf-life-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330772,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66452\/revisions\/330772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66452"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=66452"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=66452"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=66452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}