Developer: ValveImagine a major game developer releasing three new games not just in the same year but on the same ding dong dang. And not just any old three games! One was the next chapter in one of the biggest singleplayer shooter series of all time, another was a sequel to one of the most beloved multiplayer shooters of all time, plus we got a completely new first-person game that looked different to anything we'd ever seen before.
It's genuinely hard to imagine anything like The Orange Box happening again in gaming, ever. It'd be likereleasing a new Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and The Division game on the same day, or Blizzard giving us Hearthstone 2, StarCraft 3, and a Diablo 4 expansion all at once. I'm pretty sure I played Portal all the way through three times in just that first week, and since then I've probably played it a half-dozen more times. Meanwhile, I'd go on to play about 500 hours of Team Fortress 2 over the next couple years. For just two of its three games, The Orange Box was one hell of a deal.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.