Activision and Valve Partner Up

[CSN NewsBot]

According to Shacknews, it seems as though game publisher, Activision, has teamed up with Valve to distribute a number of games over Steam.

Valve has just announced that major publisher Activision is the latest game industry company to pledge support for Valve's successful Steam digital delivery service. Recently, publisher Majesco made several of its games, including Double Fine's Psychonauts, available via Steam, and various independent developers have used Steam as a primary distribution channel for their games. Today's deal will see four Activision games on the service: Infinity Ward's Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2, Grey Matter's Call of Duty United Offensive, and Neversoft's Gun.

I knew Steam was growing, but I didn't think there'd be any major publishers signing up for deals like this just yet. I have wanted to give Call of Duty 2 a try, but only if the price is right.



Update: You can read the full press release right here.

[Deletable_Man]

Sounds like Steam is really starting to 'splode. Neat.

[borsdy]

So how is this going to work for the guys that purchased CoD already? I know this happened with other games already but I never cared about that because I never owned them.

[kerosine99]

Perhaps enter your CD key just like we did for the older pre-steam Valve games we purchased?

[snkcube]

Damn, I never thought Steam will get this much game support.

[videege]

sick, I gotta buy classic cod and go do those ridiculously fun one on one sniper wars in stalingrad

[duhhhh]

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steam bugs + worldwide usage = worldwide nightmare.

[Diamond Dust]

omg steam is selling out to the maaaaaaaaannnnnnnn



serously though, this is pretty cool, maybe some more big time publishers will get thier games on steam when they are new, and then take advantage of that to get us updates faster.

[shivstar]

CoD2 has a great single player, or any CoD for that matter

[Deletable_Man]

So will people be able to use Friends to hook up for CoD games then?

[duhhhh]

Deletable_Man wrote..

So will people be able to use Friends to hook up for CoD games then?

that made me laugh fo soo fucking long! friends.. omfg the friends network hasn't worked in years!

[Zips]

duhhhh wrote..

that made me laugh fo soo fucking long! friends.. omfg the friends network hasn't worked in years!

Been working great for me, from the end of the latest beta to now. Where've you been.

[ma_cherie]

I have wanted to give Call of Duty 2 a try, but only if the price is right.

sorry zips, but that's a pretty lame excuse considering that's by far the best ww2 game ever made

[snkcube]

ma_cherie wrote..

sorry zips, but that's a pretty lame excuse considering that's by far the best ww2 game ever made

I wouldn't really say it's the best WWII game. I mean, I wonder how ducking can restore life.