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 Send to email | UPDATE: Google Buying Video Game Maker Valve? No. (GOOG) in General |  By Silicon
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UPDATE: Valve tells MTV's Multiplayer video game blog that the rumors are a "complete fabrication." That's what we thought.
Earlier: Google is reportedly minutes away from buying video game maker Valve, most famous for the Half-Life and Counter-Strike games, the Inquirer reports.
The rumors are unconfirmed and Google has already declined to comment, saying that they're just that -- 'rumor and speculation.'
Google reportedly isn't after Valve's game development. They're after Valve's game distribution platform, Steam. Steam is often described as one of the best and easiest content distribution platforms on the web.
But the rumor rings false to us. Google already distributes content throughout the Internet, and they could probably develop an advanced solution on their own, rather than buying a game company and then having to figure out what to do with its game development business.
Google has made some forays into content, but always as a distributor. (Think: YouTube, Knol, Google News.) So we definitely don't think they would want to keep the game developers on staff.
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| Valve Kills Google Buy-Out Rumor [Rumor Smash] | | Earlier today The Inquirer quotes well placed sources as saying that Google was going to be buying Valve "any second now," setting all of our hearts a flutter. While the idea seems crazy at first blush Valve's Doug Lombardi has said they're willing to be [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Sep-2008 by Brian Crecente in Rumor smash Google Industry Original Top Valve
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| Google NOT Eying Valve for Next Acquisition |  So much for that. According to MTV’s Multiplayer blog, this morning’s rumors regarding Google’s intentions to acquire video game company Valve are a “complete fabrication” according to a representative of Valve. Multiplayer sources Valve’s PR guy, Doug Lombardi, who reveals that the rumor has absolutely no truth behind it.
Just to make sure Lombardi wasn?t being [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Sep-2008 by Zach Epstein in RumorsSoftwareacquisitionGaminggoogleSteamValve
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| Google Eying Valve for Next Acquisition? | | These days you can’t say the word “Google” in an acquisition rumor post without setting the internet a-buzz with chatter and that is just what has happened this morning. Citing “well placed sources”, the Inquirer is reporting that Google may gobble up video game company Valve any second now. Of course the fact that Valve [...]
[..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Sep-2008 by Zach Epstein in RumorsSoftwareacquisitionGaminggoogleSteamValve
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| Google Entering Game Industry Through Valve [Rumor] | | So the folks at Forbes are thinking that Google could become a big name in the games industry, and now rumors are swirling about the internets that they are planning on doing just that in the way of all giant corporations with way too much money - buying someone else. In thi [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Sep-2008 by Mike Fahey in Rumor Buyout Doubtful Google News Steam Valve
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