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Valve says no to Google buy-out rumour
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 18th September 2008
The rumour has been killed - Google is not attempting to buy-out Valve according to both companies.
The Inquirer's Charlie Demerjian originally set the rumour-mill going, claiming that 'well placed sources' had confirmed with him that Google was ready to buy-out Valve 'at any second'. Predictably, the internets were set aflame with panic and flamewars, with The Inquirer standing by the story as the comments flooded in.
However, it now turns out that some even better placed sources at both companies have dismissed the idea as a work of pure fantasy.
NoFrag quickly contacted Valve for an official comment and heard back from both Valve founders Gabe Newell and Doug Lombardi who said flatly that there was absolutely no truth to the story.
"No truth. Fabrication," said Gabe, simply.
"It's nothing more than rumor. Valve is focused on making Left 4 Dead a great product and supporting folks like Crytek and Ubisoft who are bringing great games to Steam this year," confirmed Doug.
Google meanwhile has also dismissed the idea, telling Eurogamer that the story was nothing more than rumour and speculation.
That's not to say that the idea didn't have merit of course - Valve has previously said that it didn't want to continue pushing Steam as the primary saviour of PC gaming, while Google is obviously keen to control as much of the market as possible. A match between the two would have been sensible on the surface, but there's no substance to it unfortunately.
Would you mind Valve and Google merging, or do you think it's a sign of the End of Days? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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Nowt against google as such, just not a pair i see working well together
Obi-Wan wins the thread. Just imagine someone like Gabe running an evil corp like Google. BTW, flags should go up when a companies motto is "Do no Evil". Esp since every search gets sent to the NSA.
Enjoy big Brother.
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Heck, if Valve/Google was true, why wouldn't Take Two go out and sell themselves to, let's just say Symantec? That makes about as much sense.
Vlave sells Steam to Google for a pile of money and goes back to being just a developer instead of having to be both developer and publisher and also maintain a massive pile of hardware to keep Steam going. Google could take care of the hardware and network business and let Valve do what they do best.
now thats an idea! Valve hasn't come about with much innovation in the source engine. TF2 is really cool and all and its different... but well... we want something valvetastic!