Kotaku writes: "PlayStation 3 owners who attempt to play their copies of The Orange Box tonight will be greeted with a required update, bringing the EA published collection to version 1.10. The 128 MB download unfortunately doesn't come with a changelog, nor can we find a shred of information on what's changed on the internet. Digging through Valve's Steam forums, EA's support site and game forums, and the official PlayStation web site have revealed nothing about the download. We're pestering EA to found out what's up.
During my initial play time with the new version, testing out Team Fortress 2, Portal and Half-Life 2: Episode Two, nothing was immediately noticeable, although connecting to a TF2 game did seem to be rather speedy."
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.
Nothing but great memories with all these games! Playing Left for dead series during the college years with friends was the best.
Love to see titles coming to BC with enhancements. Would love even more to see Half Life 3.
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.
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.
The orange box was an excellent release. I don't think Valve will do much beyond online only games now.
Robin Walker discusses the impact of Portal, Team Fortress 2 and more.
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.
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.
Sounds good to me! I love playing TF2 on my PS3. I'm all for this update if it really makes the connections faster and make lag less existent.
If it doesn't fix the inexcusable framerate issues that should be very easy for the high-speed XDR RAM and fast Cell processor to handle, then I don't want to hear about it.
The Source Engine is one of the biggest CPU-hogs around, and why any and all programmers did NOT take advantage of the HUGE wealth of processing power the PS3 offers, is BEYOND me.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if they forced the game to run on just the 3.2GHz PPU, the RSX, and the XDR RAM.
I bet valve didn't even bother giving EA any tools or assets or ways to add full multi-threading support to the PS3 version.
How would I guess or assume this?
Because the proof is in the pudding, and the PS3 is more than capable of handling a FOUR YEAR OLD engine (albeit supposedly updated with multi-threading support, and with HDR lighting support and what not) that thrives on a good processor and fast RAM.
why do u only have 3 bubbles? most of the time ur right and u seem to know what ur talking about...dam fanboys..
bubbles =p
360 version was better.