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Steam: Portal for free all weekend

Author: Smokey Beef

Posted:
16th September 2011 at 15:34

Category: Blog

Portal for Free

Steam have being running an initiative called ‘Learn With Portals’, which involves educators teaching using the Portal games to help their students understand physics and puzzle-solving capabilities. And it will also teach them that meddling with AI and human emotions is a bad idea.

As part of this scheme, Steam has announced that this weekend the first Portal game (i.e. the one without a ’2′ in the title and no Stephen Merchant voice work) will be free to download and play to your heart’s content.

If, somehow, you haven’t had chance to play Portal yet; do it. Do it now!

Portal will remain free of charge until September 20th.

Alien Swarm – releases today on Steam for free

Alien Swarm looks quite similar to a game that also has a very similar sounding name; Alien Breed. The latter is, of course, a remake of an old Amiga game, so has the classic value. But to be quite honest, Alien Swarm really shows how the top-down xenomorph shoot-em-up genre should be done. Not to mention the fact that Alien Swarm is absolutely free.