Valve Software's digital content delivery and management service, Steam, continues to gather, uh, momentum with the recent addition of top-tier Activision games, including three Call of Duty titles and the western shooter, Gun. Other recent additions to the Steam library include the critically acclaimed Psychonauts, Ubisoft's Dark Messiah Might and Magic and Monte Cristo Games' city building sim, City Life.

Earlier this year, Valve partnered with PopCap games, so casual titles like Bewjeweled and Zuma sit in stark, brotherly contrast to Valve's hardcore offering of Half-Life 2, CounterStrike: Source and the like.

Bypassing tradition retail channels altogether, Valve's Steam service allows users to purchase and install games (along with free demos and video clips) directly via the internet. The user account and the games associated with it can be accessed from any computer, anywhere.

More info at www.steampowered.com.
 
 

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