The Orange Box to be cut into slices
Category: PC, Posted: 02/08/2008 at 04:05PM CST by Frank Ling, Editorial Director
The Orange Box is undoubtedly one of the best values that has ever been released upon the gaming world with the bundling of the original Half-Life 2, HL2 Episodes One and Two, Portal, and Team Fortress 2--all for the ridiculous price of what it would cost for one video game.
But the Orange Box is about to be peeled and cut into separate slices according to an Electronic Arts third-quarter earnings call. Warren Jenson, CFO and executive vice president at EA said, "We are unbundling Orange Box and releasing separate PC SKUs, Half Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team and Fortress [2] [for the PC].
Jensen did not mention a separate release of Half-Life 2: Episode One for the PC, although this may have just been an oversight on his part. However there is speculation whether or not The Orange Box will be continued to be produced after the individual titles of the compilation are released.
There was no information given on the price of the separate game titles or the release dates at the time of this writing.
[via 1UP]
- Too Human 09/02/2008
- Helix 09/02/2008
- N+ 08/29/2008
- Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice 08/29/2008
- Bionic Commando: Rearmed 08/23/2008
- Madden NFL 09 08/22/2008
- View More
- Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe ... 07/31/2008
- Hands-On: N+ 07/29/2008
- E3 2008: Resident Evil 5 hands... 07/25/2008
- E3 2008: Too Human hands-on 07/23/2008
- E3 2008: The Agency developer ... 07/22/2008
- E3 2008: Left 4 Dead direct fe... 07/21/2008
- View More
Kyle Stallock
Updated June 4th, 2008
Indie Games Journalism
Brendon Lindsey
Updated August 5th, 2008
Blu-Ray Review: The Sum
Frank Ling
Updated: Aug. 1th, 2008 Are you a game snob?
Eddie Inzauto
Updated Wed, September 3
Too Human scribblings
GamerNode needs your help. Register
now and join thousands of gamers in a
crusade to spread the word of
GamerNode!
Join the Node Army!
- You laugh, you lose. 09/07/2008
- World's Longest Thread 09/07/2008
- What are you listening to? 09/07/2008
- F*** Pine Trees 09/07/2008
- What's your favorite grand theft... 09/07/2008
- Google Chrome - Beta Releasing T... 09/07/2008
- online gaming difficulty rating.... 09/07/2008
- Offical Hot Women Picture thread... 09/07/2008
- Hey There, It's Psi Phi Ty 09/06/2008
- I think my girlfriend is cheatin... 09/06/2008
- View More
Well, if they come out at around $20 bucks it wouldn't be such a bad thing. Then those people who just want POrtal or just want TF2 can have them for less $$$$$$$
I would think they would just go by the Steam individual pricing.
TF2: $29.95
Portal: $19.95
EP2: $29.95
I'm not sure why Frank is confused about the Episode 1 box, unless EA stopped producing that already.
"Jensen did not mention a separate release of Half-Life 2: Episode One for the PC, although this may have just been an oversight on his part."
Or on yours beings you can happily go out and buy it off the shelf on it's own, or with HL2.