Nvidia card owners to get Portal: First Slice free

Posted Jan 9, 2008 at 10:26PM by QJ Staff Listed in: News, Titles, Genre Tags: broadband, GPU, nVidia, Steam

The best things in life may be free, but when great games become free, that's definitely something better. Word is that Portal: First Slice is being given away to all gamers who have NVIDIA graphics cards on their machines, and there's no financial "Catch 22." Yep, Portal: First Slice is being offered for free, though for a limited time only and with one special - almost insignificant - condition.

Those wishing to avail of this offer will have to have the Steam client installed. It's not such a big issue if you have broadband, since the service is absolutely free. But over slower, erratic connections, Steam may not be your slice of pie - or Portal, in this case.

We can confirm that connecting to Steam is easy-peasy with dial-up connections (we do know there's a great majority out there who can't get decent broadband services yet). But updating and downloading purchased and free games at those speeds is a horror movie waiting to happen.

You may want to brave the impossible, however, because Portal: First Slice isn't the only freebie offered. In fact, three other games are tagging along with Steam's promo:

Half Life 2: Deathmatch
Half Life 2: Lost Coast
Peggle Extreme

The promo entry is offered through the Via link below, but make sure to bring a truckload of patience with you. Apparently the news hit the most regular Steam visitors first, so they're at the front of the download queue for now. Latecomers will just have to bide their time.

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by Woden501 - 2008-01-10 00:36

� Good Deal...

Now only if my only computer with an Nvidia card in it wasn't going to be at the local computer shop getting repaired for a while.

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by Josh1billion - 2008-01-10 16:52

� Nice deal

Not a bad deal.

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