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The title leaves the end of the sentence off...

   ...because it depends on Nintento's proprietary libraries.

It turns this from an, "How dare Valve do that!" thing to a, "Well I'm not surprised" thing really fast.

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But why? Valve is not involved with Portal 64. They could very well decide to just ignore it and if using those libraries is an issue, why wouldn't Nintendo go after the guy instead of a company which has nothing to do with it?

It's probably bullshit

How is Valve able to take down a project for allegedly using /another/ companies libraries?

Valve owns Portal so doesn't need a "reason" to take down a port of Portal.

The fact that they also took down Team Fortress: Source 2 at the same time, along with Lambert saying that he will continue to do projects on the Nintendo 64, makes me feel, that while it could be legitimate, may also be just be a stated reason to save face.

This, you chose to mess with the bull…

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