Google looking to buy Valve?
- September 17th, 2008
- 5 Comments
Whoa, whoa, whoa. The Inquirer says, “Well placed sources tell us that Google is going to be buying Valve any second now.” What? And all because of Steam, Valve’s “amazing content distribution platform” no less? Okay, I can see that.
Steam is a very good content distribution platform indeed. One would think that Google would be able to code up something internally that’s very similar to Steam, but Google has a bunch of money so why not just own the best offering on the market instead of trying to build its own version?
The bigger question would be: what would Google do with the actual gaming part of Valve? Keep letting the company make games as it’s done in the past or try to add some sort of secret Google sauce to the recipe? What if we see “Half-Life 3 by Google Games”? Not likely but then again, Google just released a web browser that nobody really saw coming. So anything’s possible.
Whatever the case, this is still a rumor so let’s sprinkle some salt grains to and fro.
Kyle
2 months ago
Hmmm, This is interesting, does this mean that GLADOS is going to be reminding me of moist delicious cake while a google search?
Or will I see Google ad’s on the left hand side of my screen that say, “the cake is a lie”
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JOSH (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Funny everytime I log on to STEAM I immediately close the commercials and ad windows and go straight to load up my game. So if Google thinks they are awesome because of the way they incorporate their software then think again. I still rather go and buy the disc of the game I want that way I will have a nice original. Pe@ce!
Crystal Mountain Washington (Who am I?)
2 months ago
are two big companies might work for something big i hope
Eric (Who am I?)
2 months ago
If it means Valve games on Mac because Gabe is now ratired and living in Bali, I’m fer it.
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1 month ago
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