Google to buy Valve?!

[Dooby]

The Inq, so take with a pinch of very high quality salt.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/17/google-valve

What would Google need a distribution system for? Is this another pointer that Chrome (although I suppose GoogleDocs) was just the first is a large rollout of Google OS programs? Will we see GOS by the end of the year, which is why Google are buying a content delivery service, rather than making their own, they need the speed to market?

 

[Kaotik]

Because digital distribution is growing rapidly bigger and bigger and Google wants their share of the cake?

 

[INKster]

http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/15529

Update: Valve's Doug Lombardi has told the MTV Multiplayer blog the Inq's story is a "complete fabrication." Lombardi went on to specify that Google is in fact not buying Valve.

-1 point for Charles twisted Demerjian's already weak credibility.

 

[Bludd]

If Google were to buy Valve, they would release Half-Life 3 in beta form a year ahead of the release date and it would be free.

And a web application.

 

[suryad]

If Google were to buy Valve, they would release Half-Life 3 in beta form a year ahead of the release date and it would be free.

And a web application.

 

[Skrying]

http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/15529



-1 point for Charles twisted Demerjian's already weak credibility.

Eh? Of course he denied it, doesn't matter if it is true. If I've learned anything from the Internets denying a rumor makes it 100000000000000000000x more likely to be true. Admitting to a rumor means it'll magically fail.

 

[Dooby]

If Google were to buy Valve, they would release Half-Life 3 in beta form a year ahead of the release date and it would be free.

And a web application.

But it is Valve, so a year ahead of the release date, is exactly the release date initally posited. One year forward, one year back.

An FPS running in a browser window.... didn't Carmack do that already?

 

[Skrying]

But it is Valve, so a year ahead of the release date, is exactly the release date initally posited. One year forward, one year back.

An FPS running in a browser window.... didn't Carmack do that already?

No, Carmark didn't do that already and in fact he was beat to it with someone using id's own game! Though they're going to release a version of Quake in a browser.

 

[ban25]

This rumor was a complete fabrication that was started as a joke by a couple guys (I won't say who). In any case, there's nothing to see here, folks.

 

[Foodman]

But it is Valve, so a year ahead of the release date, is exactly the release date initally posited. One year forward, one year back.

An FPS running in a browser window.... didn't Carmack do that already?

No, but some ex Tribes guys did.