Steam Report

Shacknews recently met up with Doug Lombardi (Valve’s VP of Marketing) for a 2 part interview.

During this interesting insight into the world of Valve we learn about the predicted release date for the highly anticipated zombie romp Left 4 Dead, as well as possibilities for a demo weekend.

Doug says it is going to ship simoultaneously on

360 and PC worldwide in November.

He goes on to say in regards to the potential of a free launch weekend that they’ve been

kicking around a lot of ideas now and nothing’s final. [However] the free weekend has proven to be really, really powerful in terms of promoting sales on Steam, as well as on retail.

So it looks like there is a strong possibility that we will get to play Left 4 Dead for free before launch. Here’s to hoping!

In the same article, Mr Lombardi also laughs at reports that PC Gaming is dying and that

Steam has taken off and become this whole other business for us, [and because of this] Valve has never been in better shape

Looks like we’re writing about the right technology then!

For the full article, headover to Part One of the Shacknews interview here.