The Steam Review

IGN interviewed Doug Lombardi at a recent EA press event, and are now reporting Valve’s interest in making a gamepad peripheral.

England continues to be the epicentre of Steam discussion with the new blog Steam Report, launched last month by John Griffin and Andy Griffiths. There’s a double-act joke in there somewhere.

You can help with an academic survey on Steam’s user base.

Domain lookups show that Valve registered steammovies.com last May (thanks Michael). A whole domain for movies suggests very strongly that they intend to make a big thing out of the upcoming network.

Valve’s forthcoming puzzle game Portal will feature a system for importing and loading fan-made maps, according to Eurogamer’s recent preview.

Psychonauts is coming to Steam this month. What of developers Double Fine?