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Portal 'First Slice' extended demo free for NVIDIA customers only

by Scott Jon Siegel on Jan 10th 2008 9:00AM

Have any NVIDIA hardware installed on your machine? If so, you're entitled to a free extended demo of Portal, the best game of 2007. Entitled Portal: First Slice, the demo features more content than the normal demo, and is available free to all NVIDIA customers through a new partnership between Valve and the hardware manufacturer.

The offer is accessible through Steam, which will scan your computer to confirm the presence of NVIDIA hardware before making the offer available (creepy). Game|Life also reports that in addition to the Portal: First Slice, demo, NVIDIA customers can also download Peggle Extreme, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, and Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast for free through the same offer. Not too shabby.

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Tags: half-life-2, halflife2, nvidia, PC, peggle, portal, valve

Reader Comments (39)

i have an NVidia nForce Networking Controller installed, but it says that i don't meet the requirements for the offer >.<
help please?

So the cake isn't a lie?

No, no, no, no one said anything about cake..IT'S STILL A LIE!!!

Don't even try it...

Funny thing is, the cake wasn't a lie. There was cake all along. Down in the basement, where she's still alive. With the companion cube.

Woah! Cool. I wanted to try Portal, but I'm cheap and without windows. Oh well.

Didn't ATI do something like this?

Is that, like, a full copy of HL2:DM? If so I might have to tell a few of my friends about this who don't have it. It's pretty damned fun at LAN parties (and when you're bored with TF2.)

First Peggle Extreme, now *this*?! I call "no fairsies!"

This is interesting because Valve has traditionally been more friendly with ATi.

Yea. Tis true, verily.

PIE?

This is cool, but it really sucks for me. I just bought HL2:DM off Steam a couple of days ago for $9.95, and now they're giving it away?

Busted!

I'm sure it was just held over from the full version of the game, but I was amused that when I went to change the video settings in "Portal: The First Slice" there was a large "Plays best with ATI" banner on the menu window. Not surprisingly a recent update got rid of it.

LOL nice...

soo.. rowsdower... is that a stupid name?

Ok im confused; is this Portal demo only or the entire game....??

Its an extended demo.

Pretty damn good deal for these to be free. I use NVIDIA cards, but that damn Vista is the devil! I haven't used my PC for gaming in a while because of it.

What the hell does "Extended Demo" mean? is it like the first 15 levels (of 19).

It's just the first 10 rooms, I believe.

Wow, this Peggle is like Crack. I def. can't wait for this to come to XBL now!

My PS3 has the RSX, so I hereby claim my free copy of this game.

Since no one is gonna say it, I will.

This was a triumph.

We've yet to see if it is a huge success or not.

Did anyone notice that this was free for Nvidia users but if you go to the video settings it says nice a clear "Best Used on ATI Radeon Graphics". This kinda feels like a cheap shot to nvidia and its users.

Apparently someone did notice. whoops.

Where is there a normal demo of Portal? The Steam site doesn't list one.

So that's why Peggle Extreme has been on my games list for a while now.

Question - I haven't fired up Peggle Extreme on my Steam list yet either.. is it the full version of the game? I always kind of figured it was a demo.

Demoish. 10 levels, only unicorn powerup, but using different levels from the normal set, I think. (including sone portal-gimmic ones, which I don't think exist in the normal set)

First the Germany-only demo of Team Fortress 2, now a "demo" of Portal exclusive to users of nVidia cards. Valve sure has been doing odd things in the recent weeks. Though I am living in Germany and only have nVidia cards, I ask myself why Valve can't just release demos for everyone. Exactly that is long overdue...

What? Demos for everyone?

Communist

(j/k)

I clicked the link for the offer and accepted my free games but then it said, "This offer has already been activated using a different Steam account."

I have only one STEAM account. I can assure you that I have not played Portal. This laptop is brand new and is my only machine. How can I have possibly already activated the games? Why can't technology just work :(

The same thing happened to me when I tried to activate Valve's similar ATI offer. Apparently, if other posters are to be believed, this type of problem is pretty widespread yet Valve refuses to address it.

I had the same problem. Totally lame.

I don't care, already have the Orange Box - if you're a gamer and don't have it either your computer is too old or you're completely broke.

It took me a while to see what they did there, with the title...First Slice...that's great.

This is awesome, but it kinda sucks that the servers are flooded. That's ok, I can wait for my free stuff.

Um...so where is the demo? I installed and everything but the demo shows. Not that I don't already have Portal >_>

i think this is pretty gosh darn goodspecially for those of us who are broke

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