Valve on Google Buyout: “Complete Fabrication”

Valve’s Dough Lombardi has “denied” the Google buy-out rumors and tagged them as “Complete Fabrication”. It should be noted that Valve may be under an NDA that prohibits them from talking about the buyout deal - It’s also possible that the deal hasn’t finalised yet. For the time being though, It seems that Inquirer pulled this out from where the sun don’t shine.

Valve says Google isn’t buying the company.

Google’s Response to Valve Takeover

Following up on the fresh Valve and Google merger, Google was contacted by MCV regarding the takeover, Google had this to say:

We do not comment on rumour and speculation

It isn’t much, but it certainly makes the rumor all more interesting.

Is Google Buying Valve Software?

The shit-fest site Inquirer has picked up a story that says Valve is getting acquired by Google. Now, even if put the source and the douchebag author (Charlie Demerjian) aside, you cannot help but think how much this can and will affect the gaming industy. While one can argue that Google doesn’t know crap about operating Steam or distributing games, you cannot deny that being backed up by Google will solidify the decorated developer even more and who knows, it might also attract developers/publishers that have yet to receive any Steam-full loving. We’ll keep you posted!

WELL PLACED SOURCES tell us that Google is going to be buying Valve any second now.

GTA IV For PC…Confirmed?

The latest issue of PC Gamer Malaysia has GTA IV on the cover alongside the tag line: “Now on console, soon on PC”

The picture is taken from Lingaoyi.com, you can read a google translation here.