Half-Life dev Valve will be adding more achievements to The Orange Box and other games on Steam, it revealed in reply to a fan email (as odd as that sounds).

Team Fortress 2 will be the first to receive the in-game accolades - which work in pretty much the same ways as Xbox 360 Achievements - and other Valve games such as Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2 will apparently follow.

“We’re planning on adding achievements to all of our games you touched on in your mail,” said Valve’s Erik Johnson in the e-mail reply. “We’re just now coming out of the post-shipping haze, so these should start showing up on Steam pretty quick here.”

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“We’re also planning on adding a bunch more to TF2, starting with an achievement pack for the Medic in the next week or so.”

It’d be pretty interesting to see the statistics behind Orange Box’s achievements, as it might be one of the first examples outside of 360 of how the in-game unlockables cause fanatical game addiction. We won’t play anything without them.

source: CVG

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Still haven’t played Electronic Arts and Valve Corporation’s The Orange Box (Microsoft Xbox 360, PC)? Half-life 2: Episode 1 and Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal in one package weren’t enough to make you buy one? If you’ve got an Xbox 360 but still too hesitant to get this first-person shooter bundle, a demo is coming to Xbox Live to give you a taste of what’s waiting.

Publisher EA just announced that a demo of The Orange Box is coming this November 22 in North America. To be exact, a demo of Half Life: Episode 2 will be available from XBL as a Thanksgiving present.

Since its early October release, The Orange Box has received universal praise. Even after topping sales charts, it seems EA wants more people to know about the giant FPS collection. The demo that will soon be on XBL should help you decide if The Orange Box is worth the purchase, so keep those eyes peeled!
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Source: QJ.net

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