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Free Portal on Steam

PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 5:42 am

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Portal is currently being offered free until May 24th - http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/

Re: Free Portal on Steam

PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:38 am

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Wow, nice deal. What is the occasion?
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Re: Free Portal on Steam

PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:52 am

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I'm not sure you need a reason to receive games for free.

Re: Free Portal on Steam

PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 12:23 pm

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The Steam client was released for Mac yesterday so I guess it's a promotion for that.
Cheers for the heads up Isi, free games are good. :)
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Re: Free Portal on Steam

PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:28 pm

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Isileth wrote:I'm not sure you need a reason to receive games for free.
Unfortunately, publishers do need one to give them away for free :p
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Re: Free Portal on Steam

PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 11:09 pm

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Nice catch, thanks for the heads up!

edit add: I also noticed that Torchlight is less than 10 dollars for the next few days. If anyone is/was a fan of Diablo, this is a clone (done right), and for good reason. Look at the developer name list and you may noticed it's comprised of many former Blizzard North team members. It's a hell of a game for a 14 man team; I had more fun with it than some other flagship games I've seen released in the past year.
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Re: Free Portal on Steam

PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2010 12:39 pm

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Grabbed it, alas the level editor isn't included (ah well, it was free...). Now trying to work out which is the cheapest way to get the source SDK...
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Re: Free Portal on Steam

PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2010 3:16 pm

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Nice find Isi. Cheers. And Strac, yep, caught that Torchlight deal as well and picked it up, easily worth a tenner.
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Re: Free Portal on Steam

PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2010 3:53 pm

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Wondering why Portal is free? Well Aperture Science has released a video explaining why!

Re: Free Portal on Steam

PostPosted: Sat May 15, 2010 3:18 am

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Thx for the heads up, snagged this one as well :cool:

Re: Free Portal on Steam

PostPosted: Sat May 15, 2010 3:48 am

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This burns my soul. I just got Portal a while back when it was on sale for $5, but I still haven't had the chance to get to it yet. :shake:
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