{"id":11428,"date":"2011-04-20T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"portal-sold-nearly-4-million-units-excluding-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11428-portal-sold-nearly-4-million-units-excluding-steam","title":{"rendered":"Portal sold nearly 4 million units, excluding Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve&rsquo;s puzzle solving platformer sequel, Portal 2, was released in North America yesterday and hits European retail shelves tomorrow, while South African&rsquo;s will have to wait until Friday. Unless you buy it through Steam, which you can do right now.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the occasion, Valve has announced that the original Portal sold just under 4 million copies around the world, and that&rsquo;s excluding Steam sales. Portal was released as part of Valve&rsquo;s Orange Box in 2007, where it accompanied Half Life 2: Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008 Portal was released as a standalone game.<\/p>\n<p>Portal 2 has already received an excellent reception, with most games publications awarding it a score of 9\/10 or higher.<\/p>\n<p>Still on the fence about Portal 2? Check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/11404-Portal-review-roundup.html\" target=\"_blank\">Portal 2 review roundup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve&#039;s announces sales figures to celebrate Portal 2 launch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"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-11428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11428","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}