Get your free Portal from Steam, from now until September 20th!   This has been brought to us all thanks to education!  Yeah, that felt weird to say, but Valve has teamed up with educators, to help find ways to incorporate Portal and Portal 2 into their classrooms.  One of the biggest challenges in teaching science, technology, engineering, and math is capturing the students’ imaginations long enough for them to see all of the possibilities that lie ahead.  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—engaged, thoughtful kids.

This is a first person perspective game so for those who get a little nauseous (like me), be warned!  If you can get past it and haven’t played this, here’s your chance!

Portal is a single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.  The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment; similar to how Half-Life® 2′s Gravity Gun innovated new ways to leverage an object in any given situation.  Players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuvering objects, and themselves, through space.

Remember, the cake is a lie…

Source:  Learn with Portals
Steam Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/
Reviews reflect a 90/100 from Metacritic