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Google to purchase Counter-Strike and Valve? |
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Counter-Strike, The US's longtime running, highly popular Multiplayer Game is being seriously looked at as a aquisition by Google. Rumors have been abounding for weeks on the proposed Valve aquisition. This would give Google the largest game content distribution in the world. |
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With a record number of over 72% of all Americans having played video games, which is orders of magnitude larger then Googles installed base, There is a good chance a purchase like this could propel Google into the homes of everyone. Google is currently developing a API for Lively, it's online 3D virtual world and Valve's well developed Steam content distribution might be the key to them developing ways to penetrate the game market.
Mercnet.org commands a strong presence in the Counter-Strike Community bringing with it over 100,000 players who have graced their servers. Mercnet as a community is very excited about this talk of a acquisition as it can only improve the game titles they service.
Google could very well come in and dominate the games industry overnight, without nearly the investment that Microsoft made to get into the game. A investment Microsoft takes a loss on everytime someone purchases a Xbox console. Google would come into the fray with a successful product and without the R&D worries MS has to constantly deal with for the market.
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