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Google is planning to buy US independent developer Valve according to a new report on The Inquirer.
"Well place sources tell us that Google is going to be buying Valve any second now," says the site, pointing to the developer's extremely popular Steam distribution platform as the motivation for the rumoured buy.
The Inquirer adds: "Valve has the best content distribution platform out there, bar none. Steam may have had rough patches here and there, but they are almost all ironed out now, and just about everyone that matters has signed up to use it.
"When Google picks them up, it will be a clean kill, no one else will matter. It is a good buy for them, a good thing for Valve, and in general, good for everyone except MS."
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I don't think anyone saw that coming
. Anyway it's still The Inquirer, so it might just be a rumor.