Portal is FREE on Steam for Mac, PC Until May 24

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By Marcus Yam
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The cake is a lie, but this free game deal isn't.

Perhaps to celebrate all the newcomers onto Steam thanks to the new version available for Mac, Valve is making the best first person puzzler ever completely free of charge.

Yes, that's right, from now until May 24, Portal is available on Steam for absolutely nothing more than just a few mouse click.

Regardless whether you're playing on a Mac or PC, there's no excuse not to own Portal – especially since you need to get caught up before the sequel hits later this year.

Get it all here.

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
32 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Keiki646
    Free I tell you Free. Know I bet there will be many folks out there signing up for steam now.
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  • LATTEH
    youve got to love steam i loved it since i started using it! its the best thing for PC game ever!
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  • shadow187
    Regardless of the recent deal, making a cheap, popular game free is a very nice way to attract thousands of customers through honest marketing.
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  • razercultmember1
    Ironically, the first time I used steam was when I bought Modern Warfare 2 for PC :P
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  • wooooooooooooow... is not that they are giving away an average game... portal has to be the most unique FPS shooter in the history...
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  • aethm
    Why say "Portal is FREE on Steam for Mac, PC Until May 24" Why not just say. Portal is free on steam? Putting Mac first like that implies that Valve is giving special promotion to apple users.
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  • Cons29
    holy cow, now i really need to get my connection back, been down for 2 days now. i hope the DL wont be that slow due to lots of DL'rs :) nice move
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  • eklipz330
    razercultmember1Ironically, the first time I used steam was when I bought Modern Warfare 2 for PChow is that ironic at all?

    also... its funny cause MACS can't run games LOLOLOLOL lemme stop.
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  • lauxenburg
    I really don't like Steam...but hell Free!!!
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  • Except for all of us Mac users who use a case sensitive file system in which Steam wont install.
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