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Valve Launches Public Beta Of Steam

Posted by simoniker on from the clever-company-plus-interesting-product dept.

Thanks to several readers for pointing out that Half-Life developers Valve has launched the public Beta of Steam, their "broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital content." It currently includes free downloads of the new Counter-Strike 1.6, as well as the original Half-Life, Team Fortress Classic, Opposing Force, and more. This audacious move to build a truly popular digital delivery content system by Valve, already through an extensive closed Beta stage, also indicates Steam users should "..stay tuned for a blast of HL2 full-motion goodness."

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  1. Don't Encourage the Naive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or they could be using to lock down systems that have it installed to not only prevent cheating, but to become some player in the game content delivery field. Similar to the soon-to-file-for-chaper11 console company Infinium. DRM is ALWAYS bad.

    1. Re:Don't Encourage the Naive by The+Analog+Kid · · Score: 1, Troll

      You don't know the slightest clue, if you did you would have know Valve is an independent company, and isn't own by Vivendi. Vivendi is their publisher and that is as far as that goes.

  2. Been there, done that. by battlemarch · · Score: 0, Troll

    IntoNetworks.com - To bad they went belly up.

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