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It having official in the title has nothing to do with whether it's a Valve game or a mod, though. It just means that it's a trailer released by the developer themselves and not some random person, that's all that official means.
The developer of Portal is Valve, so saying 'official' makes it seem like it's from Valve.
Yes, 'Official' in itself does not mean 'made by Valve'. The meaning is contextual. In the case of games, 'official' denotes it was released by the creator of the title itself. So, in this case Portal was made by Valve. Anything using 'Portal' and 'official' together means Valve.
Exactly: and it says "official trailer" — separated from the rest by a fancy hyphen just like what I have used. The context is quite clear that it's the trailer that's official, and thus the meaning is quite clear as well.
The context is the 'Portal' game series by Valve. Interesting how you conveniently skip right over that part.
The developer has now changed the video and removed the word 'official' from the title. The video also includes the text 'Portal: Revolution is an unofficial, fan-made modification for Portal 2 and is not with or endorsed by Valve Software.' If there was no issues with saying 'official' then why did they remove it and add that text there?