Valve CEO: I did not meet with Apple CEO Tim Cook

01201updated 08:10 pm EDT, Thu April 19, 2012 Newell says he would be happy to confer with Cook

Valve CEO Gabe Newell was asked directly about rumors that placed Tim Cook at the company's headquarters, presumably for a meeting with Newell, but he flatly denied the story and said he has never actually met Cook. Newell dispelled the story in a podcast interview for Seven Day Cooldown. According to Newell, executives at Valve were e-mailing each other asking if any of them were meeting with Cook, but it was just a rumor, reports gaming site Kotaku.Newell took the opportunity to say that he would enjoy meeting with the Apple CEO, saying he "a long list of things we'd love to see Apple do to support games and gaming better." While Apple has made great strides, particularly in iOS, in creating a more gaming-friendly platform, Newell's remarks suggest that Apple has room for improvement. He also clarified that no one at Valve had met with anyone else from Apple on the day in question.

It would be unusual for Cook to meet directly with a gaming company unless there were plans for a potential buyout or similar high-level deal. Valve, the creators of the Steam gaming network, would much more likely have contact with Internet Software and Services head Eddy Cue or iPhone team leader Scott Forstall.

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Apple chief Tim Cook seen at Valve HQ

3160(0)2updated 03:55 pm EDT, Fri April 13, 2012 Apple CEO visits Valve for possible software deal

Apple CEO Tim Cook was supposedly spotted at Valve Software's Bellevue headquarters on Friday. His purpose and who he talked to weren't mentioned by the AppleInsider contact. Most likely, he would be visiting company founder Gabe Newell.Any visit could have multiple potential motivators. On a basic level, it could see Apple working to get Valve games as showcases for the Mac, as it has in the past with id Software or similar titles. The support for both Steam and the Source engine on the Mac has meant that many of Valve's own games are available on the Mac and, more recently, have had simultaneous releases with Windows versions.

A more advanced software involvement could see Steam integrate more tightly into the Mac, iOS, or both. Apple's Game Center and app stores fulfill some of the core functionality of Steam, but they lack any link to each other as well as some high profile games. Valve doesn't port its games outside of Steam or consoles, and it would have to either tie into Apple software or port titles wholesale to support the OS X and iOS platforms.

At the far end is the possibility of hardware, which follows just after Valve began hiring a hardware engineer. A console isn't likely given Valve denials of the rumored Steam Box, but it doesn't other devices.

Cook's visit would be a rare instance of executives actively pursuing any game developer and a turnaround from Apple's own attitude towards gaming in the Jobs era. Initially, Apple would repeatedly ignore complaints about what it needed to do to improve gaming. By 2010, Apple was actively assisting in Steam ports, but it has still focused most of its game support on iOS.



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