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Valve Corp. Begins Video Distribution

posted by cmn32480 on Monday May 02 2016, @05:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the make-Half-Life-3-instead dept.

butthurt writes:

Variety reports that Valve Corp. is to distribute "more than 100 films" owned by Lionsgate on Valve's Steam platform. Among the Lionsgate productions in the catalogue (which includes the Divergent series, The Hunger Games, Saw, and Twilight) some appear to be offered internationally:

further information:
Valve press release

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by ilPapa on Monday May 02 2016, @06:55PM

    by ilPapa (2366) on Monday May 02 2016, @06:55PM (#340367) Journal

    Hey Valve, how about making Half-Life 3 and just leaving the video distribution to the professionals?

    I really don't need your stupid movies.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday May 02 2016, @07:10PM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Monday May 02 2016, @07:10PM (#340378) Journal

    I hear Half Life 3 will be a streamable interactive movie on Steam.

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  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday May 02 2016, @09:06PM

    by acid andy (1683) on Monday May 02 2016, @09:06PM (#340443) Homepage Journal

    Never mind HL3. What about HL2 Episode Three already?!

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    • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday May 02 2016, @09:23PM

      by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 02 2016, @09:23PM (#340452) Journal

      Officially canceled in favor of HL3(eventually), just an FYI, since you didn't know.

      • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday May 02 2016, @09:33PM

        by acid andy (1683) on Monday May 02 2016, @09:33PM (#340462) Homepage Journal

        Argh! Thanks. I never found anything official so I assumed they left it as vaporware. I'd rather they made both of them.

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      • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday May 03 2016, @06:58AM

        by acid andy (1683) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @06:58AM (#340690) Homepage Journal

        Would you mind sharing a truly official link about the cancellation please? I've still found almost nothing. According to wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_%28series%29 [wikipedia.org]. This article [denofgeek.com] seems to have the most information about what's been said by Valve over the years.

        There's a Mirror article around the start of this year claiming what you said but elsewhere that's dismissed as rumor and a lot of people would take anything written there with a pinch of salt.

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        • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday May 03 2016, @11:11AM

          by cubancigar11 (330) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @11:11AM (#340770) Homepage Journal

          HL3 is not going to make them any money anymore. They have settled on CS:GO as their perpetual money making machine, got everyone on PC hooked on Steam, and now focusing on SteamOS and VR. They are not a content delivery company.