Portal: First Slice available free to all Nvidia Customers

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Effective immediately, all NVIDIA gamers may receive a free copy of PortalTM: First Slice, a special version of the award-winning new game from Valve, by visiting http://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. Roy Taylor - PR contact at Nvidia says:
Valve's endorsement of our technology and tools is yet another example of how the world's leading gaming companies are working with NVIDIA, "Portal is the hottest new, award-winning title from Valve, and we're delighted that Valve will offer First Slice exclusively to GeForce customers
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Portal: First Slice is essentially an extended demo of Portal, but is completely free to Nvidia users. Go get![br]<div align="center">
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You get HL2: DM, Lost Coast, the portal demo, and Peggle Extreme. All for free. Btw you can't d/l the demo for some reason if you have Portal.
 
This offer has already been activated using a different Steam account.

What a bitch.
 
Valve and NVIDIA Offer Portal: First Slice Free to GeForce Users

Leading Developer and Graphics Company Offer Award-Winning Game Via Steam

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 PortalTM: First Slice, a special version of the award-winning new game from Valve, by visiting steamgames.com/nvidia 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.

"More Steam gamers, including myself, play on NVIDIA hardware than any other GPU," said Doug Lombardi, vice president of marketing at Valve. "That's a testament to the company's long history of innovation and quality. By working together with NVIDIA to expand our development, distribution, and marketing efforts, we're increasing our ability to serve the millions of NVIDIA customers logging onto Steam and help us prepare for our next generation of content."

Throughout the coming year, the companies will also be working together to support competitive gaming events for Counter-Strike? and Team Fortress? 2 and will continue to work together to define and support the breakthrough features of tomorrow's games and graphics hardware.

"Valve's endorsement of our technology and tools is yet another example of how the world's leading gaming companies are working with NVIDIA," said Roy Taylor, vice president of content relations at NVIDIA. "Portal is the hottest new, award-winning title from Valve, and we're delighted that Valve will offer First Slice exclusively to GeForce customers."

Portal: First Slice is now available to all NVIDIA customers. For more information about the offer or to take the test, please visit steamgames.com/nvidia

For more information about NVIDIA, please visit www.nvidia.com.

About Valve
Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 and based in Bellevue, Washington. The company's portfolio of entertainment properties includes Half-Life?, Counter-Strike?, Day of Defeat?, Team Fortress? and Portal. Valve's catalog of products accounts for over 20 million retail units sold worldwide, and over 80% of PC online action gameplay. In addition, Valve is a developer of leading-edge technologies, such as the Source game engine and Steam, a broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital content. For more information, please visit www.valvesoftware.com


PR CONTACTS:

Doug Lombardi
Vice President of Marketing
Valve
425.889.9642
[email protected]

Ken Brown
Public Relations Manager
NVIDIA Corp.
408.486.2626
[email protected]
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Goodbye AMD! :farmer:
 
Does this contain a new level or levels from Portal?

EDIT: And for everyone that gets this one, scout the GCFs for left-in content.
 
How strange... To be honest, I can't really be bothered, seeing as I own them already...

Oh, and, if, from now on, there are going to be more little pictures accompanying news stories, that's a bloody great idea. It looks very good. :thumbs:
 
Just a demo.

Phew I own an ATi so i got worried.
 
Downloading.
 
Downloaded, but it doesn't show up on Steam after two reboots? It's supposed to show up in my Games tab, no?

edit - hool, is this a demo of the existing Portal game, or new content?
 
Adabiviak said:
Downloaded, but it doesn't show up on Steam after two reboots? It's supposed to show up in my Games tab, no?

edit - hool, is this a demo of the existing Portal game, or new content?
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Just a demo.
 
I have an ATI vid card but an nvidia motherboard. Would this work for me? (already own portal though so cant check)
 
I got a free copy of the black box with my ATI card, so I'd say i win! :D
 
Doesn't show up in my games list, so whats it a demo of?, new stuffs?, just a demo of normal portal?...:|
 
Just a demo of Portal. 10 chambers long I believe. If you already have Portal in the account, it won't show up as a separate game.
 
About half of the storyline mode, calculate the absence of the bonus levels and it's about 1/3.
 
So will this work with my old Geforce 2 MX? Let's check it out.
 
lol valve you traitorous scum.

I remember your free hl2 ATI deal.

Valve's endorsement of our technology and tools is yet another example of how the world's leading gaming companies are working with NVIDIA, "Portal is the hottest new, award-winning title from Valve, and we're delighted that Valve will offer First Slice exclusively to GeForce customers
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lol sod off you pathetic pr idiot.
 
PR guys are not pathetic they are hilarious if anything else.
 
I get the duplicate account error too. The thing is, I've never seen this offer before or own any Steam games.

Apparently Steam support sends out an e-mail that says "Sorry we screwed you. Bye now." or something to that effect.
 
So if you own an Nvidia card (which I had enough of by the way.. I'm really am happy with my new ATI) it means you get a DEMO of portal? which means that ATI owners do not even deserve a demo? I say again.. a DEMO?
which means that if I buy an Nvidia card I gonna get only a demo :)

anyway, I own orange box so..
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On the other hand.. if I gonna get a demo which is 1/3 of the original game.. do I really want to waste my money for another 2/3? Portal is very short besides.. good game but short. Can't wait to ep3 of course
 
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