Steam to offer music and video downloads

In an interview with Tom’s Games Valve’s Marketing VP Doug Lombardi revealed that Valve will be making a play for another piece of the digital marketplace by the end of 2008:

we’re also looking at other types of content like video and music. We’re definitely having those conversations and meetings, and we’re reaching out to folks with other types of digital entertainment. I think before the end of the year, you’ll probably see some pilot programs with other digital entertainment on Steam.

Steam has long been considered what Microsoft should have done when it brought it’s LIVE service to the PC, giving it’s customers access to game content like trailers, demos, full games, an achievement system and a respectably sized community and now it’s branching out into the media arena. If this keeps up we may find ourselves staring at the unbelievable… a viable media and game console on the PC.

[Via Tom's Games]

~ by Zack on February 26, 2008.