The Steamy Issue Of Digital Distribution
rockpapershotgun.com 10/12/2009 — As mentioned in the Sunday Papers yesterday, there has been some controversy sparked after remarks made by Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford to Maximum PC regarding Steam, where he stated that the digital distribution service from Valve was ...

Valve “absolutely not” exploiting indie developers
thatvideogameblog.com 10/13/2009 — John Gibson, president and co-founder of Tripwire Interactive, has written an opinion piece that tackles Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford’s recent comments on how Valve is taking advantage of the little guy with Steam. In it, Gibson says Valve is “absolutely not” exploiting ...

Steam should be its own business, Pitchford says
thatvideogameblog.com 10/8/2009 — Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford believes that Valve as a competing game company running a digital distribution service like Steam is a serious conflict of interest, even to a point where he, “as a guy in this industry,” doesn’t trust them. “There’s so much conflict of ...

Game devs speak out on Valve, Steam and conflict of interest
arstechnica.com 10/20/2009 — In a recent interview, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford—the developer behind the upcoming Borderlands —revealed some surprising opinions about Valve's Steam digital distribution platform. While the common sentiment among both gamers and developers tends to ...

Over $3 million in sales (so far) for Garry's Mod
news.bigdownload.com 12/3/2008 — Why is the G-Man smiling? Maybe he's happy because of all the money that has been made by the commercial version of Garry's Mod , the Source Engine -based sandbox game that started life as a small but innovative Half-Life 2 mod. Garry's Mod , ...

Pitchford: “It would be much better if Steam was its own business”
vg247.com 10/7/2009 — Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford has told Maximum PC that he thinks Steam and Valve should be seperate entites, as it is nothing more than a “money grab”. “I’ll tell you what. Steam helps. As a guy in this industry though, I don’t ...

[Other] Gearbox's Pitchford Discusses "The Problem with Steam"
totalgamingnetwork.com 10/8/2009 — Gearbox CEO, Randy Pitchford, was quite chatty recently with Maximum PC . Among the numerous topics discussed was how Pitchford doesn't trust Steam from the viewpoint of someone "in the industry." MPC: The download services, like Steam, are helping make it easier to buy games though, ...

Valve: Pirates Are Just Underserved Customers
gamedaily.com 1/16/2009 — At the Game Business Law summit, Valve talked about Steam, digital distribution and the PC market. Interestingly, Valve sees pirates as "tons of undiscovered customers."

Left 4 Dead 2 pre-load now available on Steam
news.bigdownload.com 28 days ago — We still have over 10 days before Left 4 Dead 2 is released but today Valve has given the go-ahead for people who pre-ordered the zombie shooter sequel to start pre-loading the game onto their hard drives via the Steam client. That means PC ...

Madballs Demo on Steam
store.steampowered.com 9/28/2009 — Home | What is Steam? | Community | News | Cyber Cafés | Forums | Support | Stats Login Steam Search Browse Games All Action Adventure Family Gaming Strategy Massively Multiplayer RPG Casual Indie Racing Sports Simulation Give the Gift of Game Gift ...

Modern Warfare 2 coming with Steamworks — play.tm 10/24/2009
Valve PC platform gets a push Activision and Infinity Ward confirm this morning that the PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will come equipped with Steamworks when it launches next month. Steamworks is of course Valve Software's suite ...

News: Left 4 Dead 2 Steam demo tomorrow — Eurogamer 10/26/2009
For pre-purchasers only. Valve will offer early access to the Left 4 Dead 2 demo tomorrow to anybody who has pre-ordered the game on Steam. If you fit the bill you can begin pre-loading the sampler now. If you don't, you can wait for the ...

News: MW2 picks Steamworks over GfW - Live — Eurogamer 10/26/2009
Valve gains glitziest supporter yet. Infinity Ward and Activision have chosen to use Valve's Steamworks suite of tools for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Significantly, they decided against Microsoft's typically more popular Games for ...

Bethesda eye Valve purchase? — play.tm 10/26/2009
Steam the lure Having landed the big name acquisition of id Software, rumours online today suggest Bethesda owners ZeniMax could be on the brink of making a bid for Valve. Valve are of course responsible for hit titles like Half-Life and ...

Modern Warfare 2 PC has Steam Cloud, Achievements — Computer And Video Games 10/26/2009
Infinity Ward confirms Steamworks support. The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 will include Valve's Steamworks support, Infinity Ward has confirmed. Click here to read the full article