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Valve squashes Team Fortress 2 and Portal fan projects after years of leniency

Valve appears to have had a change of heart about fan-made tribute projects “borrowing” its IP. GamesRadar+ reported on the Steam maker’s DMCA takedown notice sent to the creators of Team Fortress: Source 2, an attempt to port TF2 to the more modern game engine.

In addition, the Steam maker squashed a Portal demake for the Nintendo 64, hinting at a possible shift toward a more protective corporate strategy from the typically lenient Valve. “We cannot bring it back and we’ve hit Valve’s attention, it seems like they definitely don’t want us to use their IP (which is totally fair and legal from them),” Amper posted. GamesRadar+ notes some ambiguity about Valve’s reference to “proprietary libraries.” It may be that Lambert used official Nintendo development software (never technically launched publicly) to port the game to the decades-old console.

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