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Valve Didn't Forget About Portal 2's "Summer" DLC

It's still free, too!

If you haven't played Portal 2's co-op yet (like me!), now's probably a good time to fix that.
If you haven't played Portal 2's co-op yet (like me!), now's probably a good time to fix that.

Testing begins anew next week, guys.

Valve just sent word that Portal 2's first set of downloadable content, dubbed Peer Review, will be released on every platform on October 4.

And if you've forgotten, this content won't cost you a dime.

Peer Review contains both single and co-op content, though the additional "story" bits appear to be relegated to the co-op expansion, which continues to follow P-Body, Atlas, and GLaDOS.

If you're playing solo, Valve's included a Challenge Mode with leaderboard functionality. Said Challenge Mode is also available for co-op play, though. Co-op! Co-cop! Co-op!

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GOTY 2011 gets more content, fantastic.

Some people had the audacity to complain this game was somehow inferior to Portal 1, the reality is, it took Portal from being that fun little thing to something awesome.

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I'm always up for some co-cop!!!!

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valve oh valve, never disappoints!

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Summer, coming this fall!. Man, now I need to try to find a co-op partner again, which didn't work out to well last time.

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Oct 4th is the end of summer and Sept now? Thanks for letting me know Valve.

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Great! Half-Life?

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The volume 3 OST is pretty damn amazing, everyone should get it.

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Totally forgot about Portal 2 DLC. Bring it on!

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Wonderful. My body is ready.

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It's good to know that there's a company that cares about the consumers and not our money. Unlike most gaming companies and the prostitutes that I've been with.

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co-op was awesome. stoked

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Oh Valve, I can't stay mad at you.

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Wow! The 4th is gonna be so awesome with so much coming out. Hard to keep track of it all.

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In Valve time it's probably still last winter so they're on track.

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YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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def thought this was scrapped... classic valve not announcing anything!

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Co-Cop!

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This gives me something to do now on the 4th as i wait for dark souls to be delivered..

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I like me some co-cop.

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@wewantsthering said:

@SteamPunkJin said:

Same day as Dark Souls.....why Valve!?! Why?!

Because most people would rather play Portal 2 Coop than Dark Souls...just sayin'.

Define "most people"

Loved Portal 2 - still rather delve deep into a whole new fantasy world than revisit test chambers. Both are great games but c'mon.

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Yay!

Portal 2 did in hindsight dissapoint me to some extent, it was a bit easy (still love it, don't think anything else!), more content is more than welcome.

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Any word on whether or not this will have new achievements to go with it? I want to keep my S rank, but I'll play it either way!

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Still need to try out the co-op but free is good :)

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@AlexW00d said:

Microsoft are letting them give it for free? Wow.

Kinda surprised myself.
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"Co-cop"? I ain't playin' no NARC!

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Finally! Seems like this has been a long time coming.

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Cue inexplicable Valve-hate.

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Really excited to get back into some Portal 2 co-op.

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I wish I had a headset. And Portal 2.

If we had some bacon we could make bacon and eggs if we had some eggs...

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@AlexW00d: At this point, everybody would just destroy microsoft for being soo greedy. they have no choice

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Noice!

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Fuck YE!

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Thanks for the awesome birthday gift Valve!

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@TheRowGow: You really should! I played it on PS3 with my mate on his laptop. It was great.

Level design wise I'd say the co-op was way ahead of the single player.

I rented it before. I might need to buy it to play the extra stuff.

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Ack!  They should have released this last week when I had nothing to play.  October 4th is Dark Souls day.  There will be no time for Valve.

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FREE DLC! YEAH!

Looks like I will finally get some DLC for one of my games :P

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Just saying.

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:D

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I'm down with FreeLC. Yeah, you know me.

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It's not exactly summer anymore but it's free so can't complain really.

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At what point does it stop being "summer" DLC?

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Finally, summer DLC...wait what?

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@patrickklepek

How can you forget that the biggest contention of this was Microsoft's stance on No free DLC? That policy was used for a number of bullshit excuses for years and previous games and now that they sweep it quietly under the rug (only because Valve and Sony has forced their hand) you completely ignore or forget about it?

And then there's the sudden rise of the Xbox Live hackings seen here and hereand (generally all over the web)which are also going unanswered.

These things have the same interest, if not more so, than items on new EULAs and Metacritic bombings.

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I was hoping it would still be free on the 360. Glad it still is.

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stoked.

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Co-cop