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   Who would have thought, back in 2003 when Valve was driving us crazy with their development mishaps, that Half-Life 2 would ultimately end up on four consoles; not to mention the Arcades in Japan. Three years after the original PC release, and two years after the Xbox porting, the game is set to make a comeback on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms, with all the additional content to date included. By Fall 2007, this should mean Half-Life 2, Episode One, Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 and Portal - all of them stuffed together in one big retail package called The Orange Box.

   For PC gamers who already went through the original Half-Life 2 and its first additional episode, Electronic Art will also release The Black Box, which will only include Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2. This Black Box will be a PC exclusive, while the full Orange Box will be released for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. However, don't expect any of them this Summer, as previously announced, because EA's latest press release pushes them back to Fall 2007.
Innovative games included in The Black Box and The Orange Box include:

- Half-Life 2: Episode Two - the second installment in Valve's episodic trilogy advances the award-winning story, leading the player to new locations outside of City 17.
- Portal - a pioneering type of single player action game that rewrites the rules for how players approach and manipulate their environment - much like how Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun reinvented the way gamers interact with objects in the game.
- Team Fortress 2 - an all-new version of the legendary title that spawned team based multiplayer action games. The game's daring new art style features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date.    We still don't know when Valve plans to release these three new titles online via Steam, and whether or not Steam users will be able to pre-load them ahead of EA's retail launch. But we'll keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.