Portal Downloaded More Than 1.5 Million Times Since Becoming Free

Valve announced today that since making Portal free to all Steam users to celebrate the Mac launch of the PC gaming platform, the game has been downloaded over 1.5 million times and counting.

Remember, the game is still free until 24 May, so everyone with a PC or a Mac should be downloading it, no excuses. Even if your machine can’t run it, this is a chance to get one of the finest games ever created for free. You’ll eventually get a PC that can run it, so you’ll be glad that it’s in your Steam account.

Valve have not yet mentioned specifics, but I’m sure a huge amount of Mac users have been taking advantage of this deal- although they’re not traditionally known as gamer types, right?

Update: Some new stats have been released:

* Roughly two thirds of all Steam Mac users are running on a laptop.
* Portal (with the same code base across platforms) is one fifth as likely to crash on a Mac than on Windows.
* And one week after launch, already more than eleven percent of all Steam purchases are for the Mac.