The Steam Review

Valve have begun to use region restriction as a front-line selling point for Steam when promoting it to publishers.

Steam is to begin selling music “in the coming weeks”, starting with the OST from Valve’s Orange Box.

You may be forgiven for feeling a touch of déjà vu this week…

Valve have announced that the Half-Life 2 “black box” SKU will no longer be shipped, leaving PC players with either the orange box, which also contains Half-Life 2 and Episode One, or Steam, which is still set to offer a package of just the three new titles.

One of Valve’s earliest hopes for Steam was to use it to keep users’ display drivers up to date. Now, at long last, ATI have agreed to distribute their Catalyst drivers.

If you’ve ever been annoyed that the official Steam feed doesn’t reliably list new releases, this should sort you out.