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 Looks like the game-publishing heavyweights (EA and Sierra) may be outdated.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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Passport lookalike ? by selderrr · 2002-03-21 21:01 · Score: 1, Troll

All this is cool, and I admit longing for a system that keeps proper track of patches, updates and serials. But isn't this pretty similar to passport ? The dreaded Microsoft thingie that every ./ter goes bananas about ?

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Sierra is still a heavyweight? by glwtta · 2002-03-21 21:12 · Score: 1, Troll

I thought they were dead or something?

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