#Eidos Interactive är den senaste utgivaren att teckna avtal med #Valve i syfte att släppa spel via [[Steam]]. Redan i veckan dök de första titlarna upp, däribland det svenska actionspelet #Just Cause, utvalda #Hitman-delar och hela #Commandos-serien. Förutom de två nävarna spel som redan är upplagda kommer även kommande titlar såsom #Tomb Raider: Anniversary och #Championship Manager 2007 att krängas digitalt.
EIDOS LAUNCHING WITH STEAM
Legendary Catalogue of New Releases and Best Sellers Coming to Leading
Online Platform
March 15, 2007 -- Eidos Interactive, one of the world's leading
publishers and developers of entertainment software, and Valve® today
announce an agreement to deliver dozens of new and best-selling PC
titles via Steam.
This first agreement includes complete franchise sets of classics such
as Tomb Raider, Commandos, and many of the Hitman titles. In addition,
Eidos is bringing some of this year's most highly anticipated releases
to Steam, including Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Championship Manager 2007,
and more.
"For over 10 years, Eidos has been a leading publisher on every major
gaming platform," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve.
"Offering legendary action franchises in complete sets and working with
Eidos to deliver new releases is a great step forward in our efforts to
expand Steam's offerings, and to do so in ways that provide highest
value to customers."
Arriving today, the first wave of Eidos titles available to Steam gamers
around the world includes many of the Hitman titles, Battlestations:
Midway, Just Cause, and the entire Commandos series. Pricing information
is available at Steamgames.com, and news of additional Eidos games
heading to Steam will be announced in the coming weeks.
"Eidos is delighted to add Steam to our extensive digital distribution
network. Steam represents an opportunity to distribute our games
electronically to millions of gamers around the world," said Tom Marx,
Senior Business Development Manager: New Media at Eidos. "It also
provides us a direct connection to these extremely active PC influencers
who frequent Steam as a source for new content and information. As a
result of being a spotlight feature on Steam this year, we expect to see
sales of Tomb Raider: Anniversary benefit across all channels."
