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Valve's Portal 2 Now In Beta On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 25 February 2014 at 05:40 PM EST. 50 Comments

For those that haven't fired up their Steam Linux client in the past few hours, Portal 2 is finally available!

The native Linux version of Valve's very popular Portal 2 game is now in beta. As long as you subscribe to the game's beta channel, it should be available from the Steam Linux client.

Portal 2 is available on Steam for a cost of $19.99 USD. More details at SteamPowered.com and the game was first released for Windows in 2011.

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