Black Raven Dragoons

[Grimblast]

This is very legit. Seems you can get 4 free games if you are an Nvidia customer. All you have to do is simply create a steam account and you are gold. The website will prompt your steam software to begin downloading the games. Portal rocks so gotta spread the love for that game. The half life 2 games are a blast too but too bad it didn't contain the actual single player campaign version. I guess its a selling angle but you can't beat 4 free games. I'm a steam fanatic and let me tell you, my game collection is huge!

http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/

[Zancarius]

Looks like they're mostly demos, but hey--they're pretty lengthy demos.

Steam is too addictive. Evil evil evil Valve.

Update: If you've already purchased the Orange Box before and have the full version of Portal, the only thing you're going to obtain from this is HL2: Deathmatch. Not sure what Peggle is, but it doesn't appear to be in the offer.

Update update: Okay, looks like there's a bug in the offer if you already have the Orange Box. If you do a search for Peggle on the Steam store, you have an option to install it. Seems kinda pointless, but maybe it's one of those ridiculous time wasters.

On the other hand, if you've never tried Portal, this is a great time to get a demo of it.

[Grimblast]

Demos of games are a dying breed but still, can't beat what they are giving!

[Zancarius]

I can't verify this, but I saw something about a free version of portal (maybe the full one?) out to celebrate the launch of Steam on OS X? If you don't have it, take a look. Portal is really worthwhile, I think.

[Zancarius]

Turns out there's a method to their madness. They're also planning a native Linux client:

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 12/1831208

And they're planning on possibly releasing HL2 for Linux as well. I thought Source was pretty much Windows only, but this indicates otherwise.

For the record, I did play ET: Quake Wars under Gentoo and it ran fine. I'm curious to see how some of these other titles will work. Maybe I need to finally update my Gentoo install! (Heck, WoW ran fine under Linux as well--through a compatibility layer no less.)