This was revealed when Valve's David Speyrer recently commented on the absence of an Episode Three trailer at the end of Episode Two. Apparently, the reasons for the lack of a trailer was to avoid diluting the ending of the second episode.
Valve are deactivating Steam accounts for the PC version of the Orange Box for customers who purchased the game via the grey market i.e. Russia for use in USA.
I am not sure why folks are suprised by this games success it would seem obvious to me. Quality always shines through and Valve have been oozing quality for a long time.
I would not worry about this game on the 360. You have a lot of single player quality gameplay to plough through yet and Team Fortress 2 appears to have lag issues which are about to fixed in a patch.
@Jesse2050, This could be due to people playing through all the single player games included first, I don't know though. I imagine HL2, EP1, EP2 combined are longer than your avg shooter? Is Portal strictly single player? Maybe the lag in TF2 that was fixed or is going to be soon played a part?
Valve's Orange Box compilation for PC and Xbox 360 has stormed out of the gate and could end up in the top five overall sales for the year, according to Valve's Doug Lombardi. We spoke at length with Lombardi about the keys to Orange Box's success
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