There’s a rumor going around that Google is going to buy Valve in the near future.  While that makes some people really happy, I’m not one of them.  Google is interested in Steam, because it’s an awesome content delivery system for the PC, and it meshes well with Google’s roadmap.  What doesn’t really make a lot of sense is what’s going to happen to the game studio part of Valve.

Valve Software has some of the most talented people in the industry working in their studios - games like Team Fortress, Half-Life, and of course Portal don’t happen on their own.  Steam has lots of publishers on board already (Eidos, Ubisoft, Activision, etc.), and Google’s ability to run a game studio internally is a huge unknown (although I’ve been wrong before).

All in all, a very uncomfortable position for me.

[Update]: Or maybe not.