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   In a press release from a couple of days ago, Electronic Arts briefly mentioned Half-Life as one of the big franchises that will see the release of new titles in the near future, but I don't think that anyone was prepared for what Valve's imposing Game Newell had to reveal at yesterday's "EA Summer Showcase". Not only did he confirm our suspicions that Half-Life 2 will be coming to Microsoft's Xbox 360, and even Sony's PlayStation 3, but he also dropped another couple of bombs on the unsuspecting audience, saying that Team Fortress 2 (alive indeed!) will actually be the included multiplayer mode in Half-Life 2: Episode Two, and that all of the back content for Half-Life 2 (including the original game, Episode One and Episode Two), will be available when the game makes the move onto the next-generation consoles.

   But wait, there's more where that came from! Aside from releasing it for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, along with Team Fortress 2, Episode Two will also include a new single-player game called Portals. "It looks like they took the portal concept from Prey and slapped it on a gun - you can shoot them into walls and floors to solve all kinds of crazy puzzles, teleporting objects around and stuff. Looks like a total mindbender", says GameSpot.

   But I'm sure you're all curious about how Team Fortress 2 will be like, and apparently it's not the game they had in mind after the first Half-Life came out. Not by a long shot. Once again we turn over to GameSpot's report from the event:
"Well, Team Fortress 2 is back and will be included with Episode Two, and it looks like nothing else on the market. Newell explained that Valve wanted to make this action game distinct, so the graphics (which use the Source engine) look like a Pixar animated movie. To reinforce this, the carious character classes in the game look like cartoon caricatures. These include the Medic with the huge needle or the Demoman with the sticks of explosives. Other classes include the Heavy, the Spy, the Scout, the Engineer, the Sniper, the Soldier, and the Pyro. Newell says that the goal with Team Fortress 2 is to create "the best looking and best-playing class-based multiplayer game." Team Fortress 2 is certainly unique in appearance, so we’ll see how it plays."    All of sudden, this is turning into a very promising news day. And year.