I’m making a note here: HUGE success!
Today Valve along with Steam released their software for the Mac! Finally after years of Macs being substandard in the gaming department we are given access to a gaming engine with over 1,000 brand new exciting games! Well, not at first anyway. All 1,000+ are not available for the Mac yet on launch day. Today the section for Mac games contains a total of 64 since not all older games have made the conversion. But, with time, more will be playable on Macs and most important of all is that any new games released by Valve will be playable on both PCs and Macs. The first game that Valve will release for both will be Portal 2, the highly anticipated squeal to Portal. Portal is a first-person puzzle game that revolutionized the genre and swept the gaming nation by storm. Oh never played it before? Seems likely since it wasn’t available on Macs in the past. Well like so many Mac gamers I wanted to have this game on my Mac when I stumbled across this…
No. Way. That’s right, from now until MAY 24th ONLY, you can download Portal for FREE. Download the Steam software, go to their store, and download this game for free. They are giving away for 12 days one of the greatest computer games ever made. How good is it? Here are a few of the awards it won:
- Game Developers Choice Awards – “Game of the Year”, “Innovation Award”, “Best Game Design”
- IGN.com – “Best Puzzle Game” for PC/Xbox, “Most Innovative Design” for PC, “Best End Credit Song” for Xbox 360, overall – “Best Puzzle Game” and overall – “Most Innovative Design”
- GameSpot – “Best Puzzle Game”, “Best New Character(s)”, “Funniest Game”, and “Best Original Game Mechanic”.
- Penny Arcade – “Best Soundtrack”, “Best Writing”, and “Best New Game Mechanic”
- Eurogamer – Won first place in the Top 50 Games of 2007.
… it is a REALLY good game. I highly recommend you get the game while you can. And if you don’t like it, at least it was free. So go on over to Valve and follow the steps until your playing this amazing game. And remember to think with portals!