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Steam Interview

Posted by Rob at 18:16 1/4/2002.

Some real news has arisen, you'll be glad to hear. HomeLan Fed have interviewed Gabe Newell in regard to Valve's up and coming content delivery system, Steam.

HomeLAN - Do you foresee a time where the majority of game developers will publish and distribute game titles via broadband via Steam or a similar service and totally bypass the brick and morter store or standard mail order service?

Gabe Newell - Yes. That's why we decided to spend the time and money to do this. It seems inevitable, and it seems to be really good for developers and customers of games. Unfortunately lots of companies that ought to be investing in broadband have too much channel conflict to allow them to provide much leadership in this space.

The rest of the interview awaits you here.