Alienware to pre-load Portal and Steam on new PCs

Posted Nov 24th 2009 7:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Hardware, FPS

One of the biggest gaming PC makers is giving its customers a free game with every new system purchased from the company. Dell's Alienware division and Valve announced today that from now on Alienware's Area-51 and Aurora desktop PCs and their M15x and M17x gaming laptops will have the full version of Valve's puzzle shooter Portal pre-loaded into their system.

The Portal freebie also comes with an install of Valve's Steam download client on Alienware's systems and is a not-at-all sneaky way for Valve's download service to be made available to all of Alienware's new customers. The PC maker will also have a dedicated page on the Steam web site with links to purchase new systems, peripherals and more.

Tags: alienware, dell, portal, steam, valve, valve-software

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Isn't there a decent chance anyone buying an Alienware is going to have Steam/Portal anyway?Posted at 8:17PM on Nov 24th 2009 by Slashee the Cow

Y'all just jealous that you didn't come pre-installed with Portal and Steam. I was manufactured in '83.Posted at 12:57AM on Nov 25th 2009 by Jose

no people who buy alienware are too dumb to install and operate actual software. they're just rich bastards. Their IT guy does all the "game compiling" for them.Posted at 12:33AM on Nov 25th 2009 by Sam

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