The Orange Box is on pre-order!

[Macaubre]

On Steam... and play Team Fortress "beta" next monday!

Can't wait to play that game and get owned.

storefront.steampowered.com/Steam/Marketing/message/1189/

Those who already have Half-Life 2, HL2: Episode one will be able to "gift" those games to another Steam account. Sad to have to pay twice for the same game, but anyway.

[Winin]

Ooh, TFC was great fun.

so, I have HL2. What do I do to get TF2? Is it a purchase? I think I may have the Lost Coast, but I'm not sure.

[Macaubre]

Sadly, you can't buy TF2 separately. For a while, there would have been a "Black Box" and a "Orange Box". Black Box would have been only the new games, and Orange Box all the gizmo. They dumped the black box and allowed the people who already have HL2 and HL2:EP1 to give them away to someone else.

[Aberrant]

Hmmmm....nice....still debating if I want this for PC or the 360. PC would be great for all the mods and all that, but I like sitting in my couch in front of the big screen.

Haven't played Episode 1 yet, I have HL2. If someone 'gifts' it, does that mean they lose access to it?

[Macaubre]

aberrant said:

Hmmmm....nice....still debating if I want this for PC or the 360. PC would be great for all the mods and all that, but I like sitting in my couch in front of the big screen.

Haven't played Episode 1 yet, I have HL2. If someone 'gifts' it, does that mean they lose access to it?

Sad thing is this regarding TF2; you'll only be able to multiplayer with people on XBox360. You won't be able to get into PC games, at all.

It'll all depend with whom you have greater chance of playing the game; the PC or the Xbox community. And as for the "extra" copies of HL2 and EP1, no, you keep yours. Just that you send the extra copies you have to another Steam account.

[Winin]

My reaction time on xbox is too slow. I'm still not used to the controls. I'll go PC for my online shooters. It is fine for offline, though.