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Google To Acquire Valve??? News

Online reports emerge suggesting that the search engine giant could be about to pounce on Valve...

By Jon Wilcox
Posted: 17/09/2008

Movie studios, music TV channels - it seems like everyone want a piece of the videogames industry today, and online reports are today suggesting that search engine giant, Google, could be about to enter the market too.

According to The Inquirer and 'well placed sources', Google is on the verge of acquiring Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developers, Valve Software, with an potential announcement at this week's Game Developers Conference in Austin, Texas.

Google's main interest in the firm apparently rests with Valve's Steam content distribution system, which has become increasing popular with publishers in the last couple of years as a way to digitally distribute their titles. So far, the likes of 2K Games, Eidos, and Activision have all signed up to Steam, alongside indie studios such as Introversion (Darwinia) and Media Molecule (Rag Doll Kung Fu).

Neither Google nor Valve has issued a statement on the reports, but the acquisition would certainly give Google a leg up in the ongoing battle for online supremacy against Microsoft.

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	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 02nd Nov 2009 01:27, Post No: 167 how many more times left 4 dead has nothing to do with EA games so why does this site say publisher EA games im sure activision/valve arnt to happy with that.
	By: Anonymous Added:Sun 01st Nov 2009 01:18, Post No: 166 man, I watched this HD video of the full demo bit.ly/2hkzXx how's he got a 20min video on Youtube????!!
	By: Anonymous Added:Tue 13th Oct 2009 12:15, Post No: 165 flupen burgar mc cheese head
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 05th Oct 2009 00:32, Post No: 164 hi early demo for l4d2 demo cumin before oct27
	By: Arc1991 Added:Mon 28th Sep 2009 23:16, Post No: 163 post 159, EA may publish it, but they didnt create it, which is what freeradical was saying, obviously u dont read
	By: choclate Added:Wed 09th Sep 2009 22:33, Post No: 162 type back I'm waiting on your sexy ass!
	By: Anonymous Added:Wed 09th Sep 2009 16:08, Post No: 161 not at all valve is full of bs and i will tell you why. qoute:"It's not like we're [Valve is] looking at this as, 'Oh my god, we need some money, we're going to charge,' obviously, or we'd do it on the PC!!!! he says...now why would someone buy crash course for the pc when they get all sorts of maps for free already pc version has all knid of downloadable campaigns made by the comunnity. SO DUH of course you would charge PC users because why buy this 30 min campaign. it would be dumb on valve to try to charge.but xbox on the other has none of these maps period so it's a good way to hustle us outta our money
	By: Anonymous Added:Wed 09th Sep 2009 16:07, Post No: 160 not at all valve is full of bs and i will tell you why. qoute:"It's not like we're [Valve is] looking at this as, 'Oh my god, we need some money, we're going to charge,' obviously, or we'd do it on the PC!!!! he says...now why would someone buy crash course for the pc when they get all sorts of maps for free already pc version has all knid of downloadable campaigns made by the comunnity. SO DUH of course you would charge PC users because why buy this 30 min campaign. it would be dumb on valve to try to charge.but xbox on the other has none of these maps period so it's a good way to hustle us outta our money
	By: Anonymous Added:Sun 06th Sep 2009 19:50, Post No: 159 er where it says publisher it clearly says EA games but its not published by EA games at all so freeradical as you say we meaning you work for this site means sort out your mistakes.
	By: freeradical Added:Sun 06th Sep 2009 12:29, Post No: 158 When did we say EA does have the publishing rightsfor Left 4 Dead? Clearly Valve controls the intellectual property of all the games its developed. Left 4 Dead was distributed via the EA Partners program (similarly to Crysis and Brutal Legend), which basically allows developers to maintain creative control of their game and have it distributed by EA. However, Gabe Newell said before Left 4 Dead was released that if a PS3 version of L4D did get developed, then it would be ported by an EA team (as was the case with The Orange Box on PS3). This does not mean that EA would take the publishing rights for that port, although it would undoubtedly take a cut of the profits.