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Free Portal
« on: May 13, 2010, 11:03:11 PM »
In celebration of Valve's launch of Steam for Mac, Portal (for PC) is free until May 24th.  Get it now.

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Re: Free Portal
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2010, 05:19:11 AM »
So is Portal for the Mac only then?


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Re: Free Portal
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2010, 06:11:35 AM »
Wow! awesome news!

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Re: Free Portal
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2010, 12:14:49 PM »
So is Portal for the Mac only then?

It's for the Mac and PC.  Steam is giving a blanket license for their Mac games.  If you own it on PC, you own it on Mac no extra charge.  Sort of like Xbox's Zune Marketplace.


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Re: Free Portal
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2010, 01:04:35 PM »
Is this version of Portal different to the version bundled with The Orange Box?


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Re: Free Portal
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2010, 06:58:07 AM »
Downloaded this last night but not yet played it

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Re: Free Portal
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2010, 10:48:27 AM »
Is this version of Portal different to the version bundled with The Orange Box?

I think it's the same as the standalone version on Xbox Live Arcade ... which is the same version on The Orange Box (plus a few extras).


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Re: Free Portal
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2010, 01:44:38 PM »
Is this version of Portal different to the version bundled with The Orange Box?

I think it's the same as the standalone version on Xbox Live Arcade ... which is the same version on The Orange Box (plus a few extras).



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Re: Free Portal
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2010, 05:38:36 AM »
Free Portal downloaded 1.5m times

Portal has been downloaded 1.5 million times since Valve made it free last week to promote the launch of Steam for the Mac.

According to a post on the Steam website, the game is also only one fifth as likely to crash on Mac as on Windows.

Other cool stats: around two thirds of Steam's new Mac userbase are running it on laptops, and over 11 per cent of sales on Steam in the past week have been for Mac.

Portal is free until 24th May on both PC and Mac.

It's one of the games that uses the "Steam Play" feature, whereby buyers - or in this case downloaders - can access the software on either PC or Mac without having to pay for both separately.


 

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