Last week, Valve Software has started the preorder for the Orange Box on Steam, letting gamers buy 5 games – Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2:Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 and Portal – for around $44.95. More importantly (for this website at least), preorders of the Orange Box would also allow players to pre-load Team Fortress 2 earlier, participating on a beta release cycle set to start later today at an unknown time.

Of course, a beta release so later – the game is set for a release early next month – is more of a demo than anything, meant more for gameplay tweaking and the correction of small bugs than a full-fledged beta test. From the little I’ve seen online, people are already on an uproar about the long-awaited game; let’s see how well its online presence develops over the week…

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