4 posts and columns on Half-Life

Service Is Our Motto

One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

– Gabe Newell, co-founder of videogame company Valve, which publishes Portal and Half-Life

Steam Punk'd: Google to (Not) Buy Valve

in News on September 17, 2008 at 9:33 am PT

“Well-placed sources” tell The Inquirer that Google is in talks to acquire video game developer Valve Software. Which seems a bit unorthodox, even for a company as capricious as Google. What would Google want with a game company? Surely it doesn’t plan to plaster the Half-Life universe with mesothelioma AdWords.

Steam Punk’d: Google to (Not) Buy Valve

in News on September 17, 2008 at 9:33 am PT

“Well-placed sources” tell The Inquirer that Google is in talks to acquire video game developer Valve Software. Which seems a bit unorthodox, even for a company as capricious as Google. What would Google want with a game company? Surely it doesn’t plan to plaster the Half-Life universe with mesothelioma AdWords.