Valve Announces "Steam" Content Delivery System

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 21, 2002 @08:50PM from the puff-puff dept.

Greg Brown writes: "Valve just officially announced Steam, its new content delivery system that works automatically over the internet. While this has been in the works for a while, including a semi-public testing period, it has slowly been refined to the point that it is faster and more convenient than other methods. Valve is also planning on licensing it to other developers to use to distribute their games online. Looks like the game-publishing heavyweights (EA and Sierra) may be outdated. More info from Gamespy and ShackNews."

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Half-Life in 45 seconds by rufusdufus · 2002-03-21 22:21 · Score: 4, Informative

I just installed their beta; took less than 10 seconds of download to get the steam code. I installed Half-Life and it took 45 seconds to install, and I was in the game.

The process is beautifully seamless.