http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50673An extended PC demo of Valve Software's 2007 hit (and Shacknews Game of the Year by both readers and editors) Portal (PC, PS3, X360) will be made available for free to gamers with NVIDIA graphics cards, the developer announced today.
The demo, called Portal: First Slice, comes as part of a recent agreement between Valve and NVIDIA to "collaborate on development, distribution, events, and more." Gamers equipped with NVIDIA graphics cards looking to give the test chambers and deathtraps of the Aperture Science labs a trial run must allow Steam to auto-detect their NVIDIA cards to unlock the demo.
First Slice and the collaborative campaign between the two companies marks a departure from the former marketing team-up between ATI and Valve, shifted by an increase in NVIDIA hardware use among Steam gamers. "More Steam gamers, including myself, play on NVIDIA hardware than any other GPU," said Valve marketing VP Doug Lombardi, citing Valve's frequent gamer hardware surveys.
Portal: First Slice is available for immediate download from Steam—provided, of course, that you've got an NVIDIA card under the hood. Like Valve's previous free game offer for ATI users, this download also includes Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast and Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, as well as Peggle Extreme.
Okay I want one for my GeForce 4
main battle tank karthus medikopter 117 megamegapowershot gg
lol, i cant-i have ati
wait, so it's not a demo for original content? just a demo of portal itself?
Last edited by Lucien (2008-01-09 13:03:55)
Yeah, looks that way. I just got on Steam and activated it. Since the game is already installed nothing changes. Looks like it's just an extended demo.Lucien wrote:
wait, so it's not a demo for original content? just a demo of portal itself?
It is? I must have misread it, I could have sworn that it was new official portal chambers.
Bummer, since I already own it
Bummer, since I already own it
I thought it was going to be some new stuff too, I was all excited. Still a good find though.PBAsydney wrote:
It is? I must have misread it, I could have sworn that it was new official portal chambers.
Bummer, since I already own it
WHAT?Portal: First Slice is available for immediate download from Steam—provided, of course, that you've got an NVIDIA card under the hood. Like Valve's previous free game offer for ATI users, this download also includes Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast and Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, as well as Peggle Extreme.
Where?
cool, downloading now
looks like ATi is slowly dying...
Yeah, you get all of those games if you don't already have them so it's a pretty sweet deal I think. Going to be tough for ATI to compete against marketing like that.Jenspm wrote:
WHAT?Portal: First Slice is available for immediate download from Steam—provided, of course, that you've got an NVIDIA card under the hood. Like Valve's previous free game offer for ATI users, this download also includes Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast and Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, as well as Peggle Extreme.
Where?
I already have all those games, give away something I don't have, lol.
Interesting summary by Teek:
But I assume it will be available for purchase/download at some point ...
/me wishes he was on nvidia right nowAd says: your gcard nvidia?
Teek says: ati
Ad says: shame: http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/#
Ad says: i'm ati too
Teek says: WTF
Teek says: CUNTS
But I assume it will be available for purchase/download at some point ...
Wow. Buying a 8800GT after a year and a half of an X1800 is paying off already.
What's funny is that in the video options it says that it is best played with an ATi card. talk about irony.
I have portal but I do not have HL2 DM anymore. This is good. There is nothing bad about this. I love my 7950s. I love them.