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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: MysterD on Wednesday, January 09, 2008, 03:09:37 PM
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NVidia users, do you not have Portal yet?
Get on your Steam account and you can go try the (free) Portal: First Slice.
From what I've heard, it's only the first 4 levels of the Portal game. (http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=84001&boardid=1&id=&view=flatnew&start=20)
Free Portal: First Slice for GeForce Owners [January 09, 2008, 1:44 pm ET] - Viewing Comments
Valve announces the release of Portal: First Slice for free for owners of NVIDIA GeForce accelerators, offering a sample of Portal, their first-person puzzler, to those who favor their favored hardware:
January 9, 2008 - The most recent Steam® Hardware Survey (http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html) shows more Steam gamers play on NVIDIA GeForce hardware than any other graphics platform. In an effort to further support this popular PC gaming configuration - Steam games plus NVIDIA hardware - Valve and NVIDIA have entered into an agreement to collaborate on development, distribution, events, and more.
Effective immediately, all NVIDIA gamers may receive a free copy of Portal™: First Slice, a special version of the award-winning new game from Valve, by visiting www.steamgames.com/nvidia1 and "Taking the test." Steam will then auto-detect the presence of NVIDIA hardware and make Portal: First Slice available immediately, free of charge. To make it easy for all NVIDIA customers to redeem this offer, a link to the Steam offer will also be included in all NVIDIA drivers.
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What the fuck? I don't know what this is actually all about, but I'm suspicious.
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This sucks for ATi as they always had an understanding with Valve, while iD were more friendly to Nvidia with Doom 3.
I am sure Gabe Newell's response to any complaints from ATi fans is,"They still make video cards?"
Similar to what my reaction was when I visited that link... "Blue's News still exists?"