There are articles on both
GameSpy.com
and
Shacknews about
Steam, an upcoming broadband delivery system from Valve Software that hasn't
really been formally discussed, although it was recently rolled out in a
semi-public beta test (
story). Each article elaborates on the
Steam broadband content delivery system, describing a tool that purchasers of
Valve's games will make transparent use of to get game patches and the like that
may also be licensed by outside companies for other forms of content delivery.
Each article also offers quotes from Valve's Gabe Newell, while GameSpy's piece also features quotes from Doug Lombardi with the Shack's offering
screenshots of the Steam interface along with a mention of plans for an
accompanying instant-messaging client called "Tracker."