The official release date for the highly anticipated Portal 2 that will be available across all major platforms is April 19th, which is about 3 days from now. Valve however has made things quite interesting for PC owners - playing 13 indie games on Steam will shorten the wait time of the release! They are doing this to boost sales for these games that are currently discounted under "The Potato Sack" offering. There is a bar attached to each game, apparently attached to some arbitrary number of hours needed to fill it completely. There are also indications of the number of "CPUs" that are running these applications though I doubt that the data is presented in real time because I tried playing one of the games earlier and I didn't see the number of CPU going up to include mine. The concept behind this is really cool however, since the activity is symbolic of everyone helping to "reboot Glados". Will the community be able to get Portal 2 released for the PC days before its release date? We will know soon enough.
Only 2 of the 13 games have met their computing power quotas so far.
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