This week i have mostly playing...

Orange Box, duh!

It's really really good though. Episode 2 is fantastic and i think i'm nearly at the end of as it's only supposed to be 5 hours long.

For one achievement you have to get a Gnome that sits near the beginning of the game. Then carry it with you all the way through the entire game up to near the end where you have to put it in a rocket so you can send the Gnome into Space. 30 points well earned methinks. Although i haven't done it yet, the game's short enough to do it again just for that achievement alone.

Portal: Fiendishly tricksy.

Apparently the automated voice in Portal is hilarious but i'm going deaf so i couldn't really hear what she was saying. It will be cool if they incorporate the portal gun into Ep.3.

In case you're not 100% sure of what it's about, your left trigger shoots an orange oval onto a wall, your right shoots a blue one. You walk through one, you come out of the other. It's pretty much that simple. But the puzzles are sodding hard. Or maybe i'm just thick, i'm not sure.

Team Fortress 2: Foo-kin mental. Tried it with some trepidation last night as it's online only, no bots. Don't like online that much. But you know what, it's brilliant! The class system is so much fun and the Spy is a work of genius.

You push left on the d-pad and disguise yourself as any class of the opposite side. Your team mates see you as a their spy with a cardboard cutout mask on your face but the opposite site see you as one of their own.

Of course, if you're running along with a bunch of your own side steaming in to claim a point, it's pretty obvious what you are so you have to play it cunning. Act like the enemy, hide in the shadows then come up behind them, if you can get up behind them you can literally back stab them and kill them in one hit. If you miss then your cover is blown and they waste the shit out of you. You've also got temporary invisibility and the ability to disable gun turrets set up by enemy engineers.

Absolutely great fun, and i've only tried 2 of the 9 classes so far. Think i'll be playing this game for a while as (amazingly) i'm actually not too bad at it.

Bundle that all together with the best game ever made and the first expansion pack for the best game ever made all onto one shiny new disk, then add in the fact that you'll have a semi bonk-on for Alyx and there's no reason on earth not to get this.