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Orange Box Turns Gold

Posted by Zonk on from the medic! dept.

Dr. Eggman writes "GameDaily.com announces that at long last, Half-Life: The Orange Box has gone gold. The release date has been set for October 10th. Although Valve recently announced that the company shall reevaluate episodic content, Newell has spoken to CVG, reassuringly stating that there is lots of Half-Life left at Valve. Expect more interesting stories like Portal to come out of Valve as they trickle out what they refer internally to as 'The [Half-Life] Bible.'"

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  1. Good to hear by Nos. · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those of us that pre-ordered, at least we've had the pleasure of Team Fortress 2. Its not perfect, but I'm quite happy with it. Of course I haven't had the crashes that a lot of people have been having. That being said, I can't wait to try Portal. Episode 2 I'm sure will be interesting, but for me, won't be more than a passing bit of entertainment when I grow bored of TF2 and Portal.

  2. Re:*YAWN* by All_One_Mind · · Score: 2, Informative
    There's new games in this:


    From TFA:
    Half-Life 2: Episode Two
    Team Fortress 2
    Portal

  3. Time traveler by ejito · · Score: 2, Informative

    games that I already played on the PC several years ago?

    Somehow I doubt you played Portal, TF2, and Ep2 a few years ago, since those are 3 new games. You talk about price, but what I'm seeing is three new games for the price of one (I paid $45), plus a decent engine (Source SDK has new shader improvements) with plenty of mods. Peggle is also a great addition, since I'm a fan of pachinko and have played the demo version before.

    You may think you're getting ripped off because HL2 and Ep1 is packaged with it. That's a bonus, not what you're paying for.
  4. Re:For all the Orange Box Haters out There by carterhawk001 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The black box was going to retail for $39.99, so as far as I'm concerned, I'm paying valve $10 for the privilege of giving the older games away to a friend, and thats some straight up bullshit right there. As soon as the courts make it firm and clear that valve's policy against selling the "gift games" is not legal, thats what I'm doing.