First 10 Steam Greenlight Games Announced

Valve has announced the first 10 titles that will be sold on Steam as a result of Steam Greenlight. Greenlight allows the community to vote on independent games to be sold through Steam, and Valve has now announced the first ten games that “have earned critical mass and been picked up for worldwide distribution.”

The 10 titles are:

• Black Mesa
• Cry of Fear
• Dream
• Heroes & Generals
• Kenshi
• McPixel
• No More Room in Hell
• Project Zomboid
• Routine
• Towns

"The Steam community rallied around these titles and made them the clear choice for the first set of titles to launch out of Greenlight," said Valve’s Anna Sweet. "Since launch, hundreds of titles have been submitted, with more coming in every day. We expect to be announcing more titles coming to Steam via Greenlight soon."

Steam Greenlight first launched on August 30th, and Valve recently enacted a policy requiring a $100 fee to submit a game to Greenlight.

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Report: EA Sought to Acquire Valve

Electronic Arts was apparently prepared to pay up to $1 billion in order to acquire Valve, according to a new report.

The New York Times claims to have seen a report which lists the various opportunities Gabe Newell has had to sell the company in the past.

"Valve has been pursued over the years by Electronic Arts, which would very likely have valued Valve at well over $1 billion had the talks progressed that far," it explains.

The article goes on to say the claims come courtesy of "two people with knowledge of the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were private".

Why said talks broke down isn't clear, especially given that EA's COO Peter Moore recently voiced his support for the company, describing them as being "on the cutting edge of the future of this industry". It may have something to do with Valve co-founder Gabe Newell, who has apparently long been convinced that the company would "disintegrate" if it was ever bought by another company.

"It’s way more likely we would head in that direction than say, ‘Let’s find some giant company that wants to cash us out and wait two or three years to have our employment agreements terminate,’ he said.

Had the deal gone through, EA would have gotten quite the bargain; Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter estimates that Valve would today be valued at around $2.5 billion, mainly thanks to its Steam digital distribution service. The company is also believed to make far more money from Steam than it does from actual sales of its own games.

This number only looks set to go up, especially with the recent news that the company will be "jumping in" to hardware development.

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