There's no need to be furious if you already bought The Orange Box; Portal: First Slice is nothing more than an extended demo for one of last year's greatest games and a big "f*** you" to ATI supporters.
If you haven't gotten Portal for PC yet and you're running NVIDIA hardware, then why not take Valve up on this offer? There's nothing to lose other than some space on your hard drive (you'll need Steam to play the demo).
"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."
Details are pretty scarce on the actual length of the demo, so if you get around to downloading it, give us a holler in the comments.
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3:26 PM on 01.09.2008
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Just goes to show you: gaming can be as fickle an industry as any. No use making allegiances, you'll just get stiffed later.
That said, if you haven't played Portal yet, yer probably not reading this site.
Ok I lied (not the only thing that is a lie though, I'm looking at you Mr. Cake), but ill wait to the new 9xxx series.
Jackass 2.5 didn't mention you have to download some special software to view it.
I hate these sneaky offers to get ya to download some annoying piece of software and websites and bloggers don't tell ya that part either. They're like, yep no catch involved. Bullshit!
It's free portal how the hell can you be deceived. It's not like steam is the software embodiment of Aids. And as far as I know, it's size is very small. No one is pointing a gun to your head forcing you to do this either. Ok Grim is, so what? Big whoop.
It's
--Portal: First Slice (Training levels up until you beat the second "Momentum" level)
--Peggle EXTREME (first 10 levels of peggle, no time limit)
--HL2 Death Match and
--HL2 Lost Coast
Heven't played the last two yet, but if you have questions, I can jump on for a bit and see what the deal is.
I'm getting mixed signals here.
I'll take my Crossfire ATI cards anyday
In the options menu of portal there was a nice shiny add for ATI
...obviously a conspiricy
But now, much like DICE - seemless Punkbuster integration with BF1942 and so on, if steam has an error, even though it's an separate app taking up separate system resources, it will crash/lock-up/disconnect you from any game you are currently playing in multi.
Nothing about it is convenient or attractive for that matter, it is and will always be much more of a nuisance and just another tacky useless item that gamers don't fucking need.
But much like Gamespy and all those douche bag wannabe gamers, it's here and there isn't shit gamers can do about it but feed it ram.
Interesting idea to boost Nvidia, though I was unaware they needed more support, seeing as they've pretty much been known to (pc) gamers since the voodoo days.