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HL2: Episode Two And Portal To Have PC Achievements

Valve's Robin Walker has confirmed to the media that Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Portal will have PC achievements.

First it was Team Fortress 2, now it's the whole Orange box!

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ShiftyLookingCow6081d ago

certainly won't add to your gamerscore since I can't see Steam and Games for Windows Live together but not bad, I wonder what sound effect they used for the achievement popup. Maybe part of the gravity gun sound

BloodySinner6080d ago

If it won't have Live achievements, I don't see too many gamers wasting their time with the in-game ones.

orange146081d ago

I'm still deciding if I should get this game... I don't know how well it would work on my comp, though it's not supposed to be much more graphically impressive compared to the Source games is it?

I would probably just play TF2 anyways...

Korosuke6080d ago

What is the achievements ?
I already played TF2 beta and noticed achievements list in game.
But I don't know what does it means.

orange146080d ago

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what they're for either...

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Classic Valve Titles Now in Enhanced Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility Collection

The Xbox One Backward Compatible versions of Xbox 360 titles Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, The Orange Box, and Portal are now enhanced for Xbox One X, Microsoft announced.

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lxeasy2035d ago

Nothing but great memories with all these games! Playing Left for dead series during the college years with friends was the best.

Skull5212035d ago

Love to see titles coming to BC with enhancements. Would love even more to see Half Life 3.

gangsta_red2035d ago

To not have another Left 4 Dead is straight up criminal.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH2035d ago

So many memories of throwing my controller with Portal lol.

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How Valve released five of its greatest games in a single day

The year is 2007. Console owners tap their fingers in barely contained impatience. For years they have been starved of Valve's delicious, full-bodied courses, forced to watch from the bleachers as Valve mixes a unique blend of kinetic first-person with extraordinary tech. Besides a brief dalliance with the original Xbox and the PlayStation 2 - which produce pale imitations of its best work - Valve has remained faithful to the PC.

And then, in a flash, five of them arrive at once; neatly packaged morsels for a new generation reared on Microsoft's & later Sony's consoles. Five games, all in one orange box. Valve serves the PC too, for it is October 18 - a day of celebration - and everyone should feast.

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2pacalypsenow2400d ago

Man 2007 was a great year for gaming.

OpenGL2399d ago

Valve didn't really "release" 5 of its greatest games in a single day, Half-Life 2 came out 3 years before The Orange Box. In no other context do we talk about a port being the "release" of a game.

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Fist4achin2399d ago

The orange box was an excellent release. I don't think Valve will do much beyond online only games now.

AuraAbjure2399d ago

Thanks for making the source 2 game engine valve it's legit.

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Valve reflects on The Orange Box, ten years later

Robin Walker discusses the impact of Portal, Team Fortress 2 and more.

pwnsause_returns2408d ago

shut up valve....give me HL3....

FallenAngel19842408d ago

Back when Valve made a lot of great titles

-Foxtrot2406d ago

Little cheeky to talk about it when you know we're still waiting for Half Life 3...the Orange Box included Episode 2 and is still left unfinished story wise to this day.

At this rate we better get a second Orange Box. Half Life 3, Half Life Remake (Black Mesa Mod), TF3 or L4D3 and the HL spin offs like Blue Shift.

Reefskye2406d ago (Edited 2406d ago )

Don't know what valve are going to do with Half Life after Mike Laidlaw posted the short version of Episode 3 in August and changed the names and genders.