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Gamesindustry.biz have posted an interview with Mark Morris, director of Introversion Software, developers of Darwinia and Defcon, which spends a significant portion of its time covering the indie developers’ relationship with Steam, and their thoughts on digital distribution in general.
Ubisoft’s first-person fantasy combat title Dark Messiah of Might & Magic has had its Steam distribution all but confirmed, with registration for its upcoming pulic beta requring an account.
Struggling publisher Atari’s new ‘GamersFirst’ initiative seems set to push either a portion or all of their extensive PC back catalogue onto Steam as part of a new budget range.
Michael McCarthy, former lead artist at Troika, has founded his own company and is now developing for Steam.
A Steam platform update has been released enabling the purchasing and downloading of videos, adding a new error-handling system, making various other tweaks, and introducing a range of glitches.
Self-publishers Meridian 4’s old-school top-down shooter ‘Shadowgrounds’ has been added to the Steam roster with an early May, $25 release planned.