Free Portal for a Limited Time

Submitted by georgiana on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 03:43.

Valve/Steam's terrific game Portal is absolutely free for the next few days, until May 24th. In case you're not familiar with it Portal is a fantastic game that introduced catch phrases like "The cake is a lie" and a chilling character called GLADOS, a diabolical computer mind that is both hilarious and murderous. A sample comment from GLADOS, "That thing you burnt up isn't important to me. It's the fluid catalytic cracking unit. It made shoes for orphans. Nice job breaking it, hero."

The portal in the name refers to your ability as a player to make a hole in a surface which will port you to another location. This game is an awful lot of fun and won meg awards the year it came out, as well as enrapturing everyone who played it in my house. With Portal two in the works Steam/Valve is releasing version one for free, because they apparently don't have quite enough addicted souls.

You can get all the details and sign up for your Steam account here: http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal