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Eidos building up Steam

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Mar 15, 2007 4:49 pm PT

British publisher will digitally distribute Tomb Raider, Hitman, Commandos, Just Cause, Battlestations: Midway, and Championship Manager via Valve's online service.

Today, Eidos Interactive announced it has inked a deal with Valve Software to distribute games via the Steam digital delivery service. The subsidiary of SCi Entertainment is the latest publisher to hook up with the Half-Life 2 developer, following in the footsteps of Activision, Majesco, and 2K Games.

As has been the case previously, the release announcing the Eidos/Valve deal went out at the same time the first games from the publisher went up on Steam. The service currently offers Battlestations: Midway, Hitman: Blood Money, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Codename 47, Just Cause, and four Commandos titles: Strike Force, Men of Courage, Destination Berlin, and Behind Enemy Lines. All games are 10 percent off their retail prices until March 26.

Besides its current offerings, Eidos also plans to release its popular soccer-coach sim Championship Manager 2007 and several Tomb Raider games on Steam later this year. The latter group will include the forthcoming Tomb Raider: Anniversary collection.

69 Comments

  • Kolt-Python

    Posted Mar 28, 2007 8:47 pm PT

    No Thief? That's a criminal offence. And why did they leave out Hitman: Contracts?

  • judge__judy

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 11:59 pm PT

    I think steams really good and the securety is good, so cheap as torrent downloaders won't be able to play steam.

  • PutU2REM

    Posted Mar 17, 2007 10:15 pm PT

    My problem isn't with online distribution but with the copy protection schemes that go along with it. Even though I have very little music purchased off iTunes, I still find its copy protection odious. Steam's protection scheme, from what I've experienced, is even more intrusive and annoying.

  • muppet1010

    Posted Mar 17, 2007 12:26 pm PT

    reading through i sem to be seing echoes of "no way will i download music, im sticking with cd's forever..." and then a year later almost everyone downloads music.

  • muppet1010

    Posted Mar 17, 2007 12:21 pm PT

    I used to hate steam but stuck with it cause I need them to play css. But well they have listened and their service is greatly improved over what it was. They now accept paypal and have an ever growing library of downloadable games and pretty good prices and a lot of good offers.

  • xheart_corex

    Posted Mar 17, 2007 11:52 am PT

    Fair enough steam was abysmal at launch. Anyone who hasnt tried it in ages, definitely should. Its a lot more stable now. Plus since they added PayPal for us poor credit cardless people, theres barely anything to complain about (unless you have 56k). If you want to talk about a broken piece of crap digital distribution, just look EA's way. But steam? Yeah steam rules. Nice one eidos. Its a definitely a good thing for all us gamers.

  • couggod

    Posted Mar 17, 2007 11:43 am PT

    So if valve can make money by publishing games on steam, then they will take their sweet time in developing Episode 2.

  • steven141

    Posted Mar 17, 2007 4:42 am PT

    steam is a great way to get games, unfortunately i cant launch steam for some reason now :/

  • bodylotion

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 4:21 pm PT

    Steam is quite a good service but the fact that it's a lot easier makes u buy a game a lot faster even though you're not sure you like it, like i bought Jagged Alliance 2 for instance, it's a nice game but not for 20 bucks.

  • jh94131

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 2:04 pm PT

    I prefer digital delivery, but I hate the Steam engine. I have had nothing but problems with it. After my HL2 problems, I decided never to buy another Steam game.

  • thephoenix365

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 1:54 pm PT

    Digital distribution is great. i mean ok i can get games cheaper if i buy it off amazon and wait a few days, but im sure we have all wanted a game here and now and i really dislike the idea of being overcharged at some high-street retailer. Personally none of the titles available in this deal appeal but i'm sure more and more will become available.

  • rokkuman09

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 12:53 pm PT

    Sweet. I love Steam I have downloaded a few games from there. I used to think that I wouldn't like buying digital distributed games but I was wrong. It makes things a lot easier.

  • cjcr_alexandru

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 11:13 am PT

    Some good games there...

  • bodylotion

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 10:20 am PT

    somehow it still feels as if you've bought something when you can hold it in your hands

  • zamardii12

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 9:27 am PT

    HAHA EA Link sucks ass... hahaha

  • grimdeath

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 9:27 am PT

    its a good decision to have SOME form of digital distribution, otherwise there will be those select few that will result to pirating every time...even though the current distribution does have its flaws(lack of a hard copy, direct2drive cannot accept regular patches, etc) its still better then nothing...at least there is a legal option. retailed box versions are great but we might look back in a few years and wonder why we always had to leave our house to get a new game

  • Samon

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 9:24 am PT

    I really like Steam. This is good news.

  • bodylotion

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 9:16 am PT

    i rather have a dvd case too however i must say that i dont know where to keep all my cd's / dvd's at the moment so it's a good sollution and steam is pretty fast downloadable. I hope Tomb raider 1 will be available for a nice price, but if i think of Jagged Alliance 2 which they sell for like 20 dollars it's worth like 10 dollars maybe...

  • krypto74

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 9:03 am PT

    Great news for valve! I know they have trouble with several things regarding MS systems, and hope it doesn't spill over to the other publishers.

  • chrisdojo

    Posted Mar 16, 2007 6:12 am PT

    lots of old meh games....

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