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NECA has announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Valve to produce toys, clothes, action figures and board games based of Valve's intellectual gaming property.

Hold on to your hats, people: Valve has confirmed a February 9th release date for Portal 2.

The sequel to one of the most innovative and humorous games of 2007 will be making an appearance on Xbox 360, PC and PS3, with the latter, according to Valve boss Gabe Newell, being the "best version on any console."

The Office's Stephen Merchant is even voicing the Buddy Sphere, Wheatly. Marvellous.

Source: CVG

Valve has revealed that 1.5 million gamers have taken advantage of Portal being offered as a free download to promote Steam's launch on Apple Mac.

The publisher has also released some stats about the game, including that it's a fifth less likely to crash on Mac than Windows. It seems two thirds of Mac gamers are playing the game on a laptop and Mac game sales already account for 11 percent of Steam purchases.

You've still got time to grab the brilliant Portal for free, it's available for both PC and Mac until May 24th.