{"id":11331,"date":"2011-04-14T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"the-ball-free-portal-2-themed-dlc-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11331-the-ball-free-portal-2-themed-dlc-released","title":{"rendered":"The Ball: free Portal 2 themed DLC released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When MyGaming reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/8171-The-Ball.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The Ball\">The Ball<\/a> we were taken with its quirky and innovative approach to first-person action puzzling, and suggested that it was just the ticket for scratching the itch until Portal 2 arrived.<\/p>\n<p>As part of <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/11061-Steams-Potato-Sack-sale-peels-off-selected-indie-game-prices.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Steam&rsquo;s Potato Sack indie game bundle promotion\">Steam&rsquo;s Potato Sack indie game bundle promotion<\/a>, Teotl Studios has released a free Portal 2 crossover DLC. The DLC is free to any who own The Ball, whether they bought through the Potato Sack promotion or not.<\/p>\n<p>The Ball is currently discounted 50% on <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/35460\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Ball on Steam\">Steam<\/a> and is also available as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sub\/7586\/?snr=1_4_4__104_1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Potato Sack\">Potato Sack promotion<\/a>, which includes 13 indie games discounted for a total of 75%.<\/p>\n<p>A video has been produced to show off the Portal-themed mayhem. Teotl promises around an hour of gameplay in the Portal crossover level, which features 7 test chambers.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"340\" height=\"207\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4HCD97njZxw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"340\" height=\"207\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4HCD97njZxw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the Portal 2 launch, The Ball has received some great Portal 2 themed free DLC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}