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gamesindustry.biz - 7/3/2009
News: Valve: Steam can boost boxed sales
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Valve has batted away the latest fears that its digital Steam service is damaging traditional retail, revealing it has data that shows boxed sales increase when it runs promotions via its digital distribution channel. Speaking to ...
store.steampowered.com - 7/1/2009
Street Fighter® IV on Steam
— store.steampowered.com — High Definition stylized 3D environments and characters Traditional "2D" Street Fighter six-button gameplay 25 Fighters including: New... special moves that go beyond any Street Fighter fan's wildest imagination, including Focus Attacks, Super Combos, ... (more) Street Fighter® IV on Steam

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News: Left 4 Dead DLC announcement soon
computerandvideogames.com - 7/2/2009
News: Left 4 Dead DLC announcement soon
— computerandvideogames.com — Thursday 2-Jul-2009 4:53 PM Due by the end of Summer Valve tells CVG Valve's Doug Lombardi has... told CVG that we should expect a Left 4 Dead DLC announcement before the end of the summer for both PC and 360. At a recent press event that took place in ... (more) News: Left 4 Dead DLC announcement soon

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totalvideogames.com - 7/6/2009
Valve "Trying To Work Out" Cross-Game Play Between L4D1 & 2 News
— totalvideogames.com — Doug Lombardi reveals that Valve is "working on" bringing cross-game play to L4D1 & 2...... (more) Valve "Trying To Work Out" Cross-Game Play Between L4D1 ...

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Steam can cause spikes in retail game sales too
Destructoid — ... Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Valve's Doug Lombardi says that "A lot of the 'Steam is there to compete with retail' stuff is sort of sensationalized." Not only do Steam's free weekends lead to more players, and more digital downloads, but in the case of Left 4 Dead, the promotion also gave the retail PC and Xbox 360 versions of the popular game an increase in sales. ...

Valve: Steam sales even boost retail games
Joystiq — ... Worried that those pesky digital shelves are going to put your local brick-and-mortar out of business in the next few weeks? Worry not, friends, as Valve's Doug Lombardi is here to put all your worries to bed. Talking to GamesIndustry.biz, Lombardi claimed that ...

Valve: ‘Steam isn’t killing retail, honest!’
That VideoGame Blog — ... Speaking to gamesindustry.biz, Doug Lombardi, marketing director of Valve said: “When we do our free weekends on Steam for our products we see an increase in player numbers, obviously, and then we’ll see a spike in sales at the end of the weekend on Steam and at retail,” he said. “And recently we’ve seen data that shows Left 4 Dead free weekends increase the sales of ...

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