{"id":14070,"date":"2011-09-16T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"portal-now-free-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14070-portal-now-free-on-steam","title":{"rendered":"Portal now free on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are one of the six remaining PC gamers who do not own Portal, then you&rsquo;re in luck, because Valve has gone ahead and <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/400\/ \" target=\"_blank\">made it available<\/a> for the fantastic price of $0.00.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previously $19.99 (+-R140), anyone can download the game for free until 20 September. Thereafter it will presumably once again be $19.99.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion is being run to raise awareness for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnwithportals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Learning With Portals<\/a>, a campaign directed at increasing the use of Portal in classrooms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, innovative educators are finding ways to incorporate Portal and Portal 2 into their classrooms &#8211; helping teach physics and critical-thinking skills,&rdquo; reads the Learn With Portals site.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of the biggest challenges in teaching science, technology, engineering, and math is capturing the students&rsquo; imaginations long enough for them to see all of the possibilities that lie ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Using interactive tools like the Portal series to draw them in makes physics, math, logic, spatial reasoning, probability, and problem-solving interesting, cool, and fun which gets us one step closer to our goal &#8211; engaged, thoughtful kids!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Portal has become an icon in the video games industry. Often praised for its unique gameplay and quirky personality, Portal currently sits on a Metacritic score of 90\/100. If you don&rsquo;t yet own the game, then you have until Monday to grab it for free from Steam.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17776-Portal-going-free-on-Steam\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Portal now free on Steam\">Portal now free on Steam<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Comments and views<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve makes classic puzzler free until Monday <\/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-14070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14070","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=14070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}