> Anything that goes there is a carefully choreographed dance between the journalist and the PR rep You mean the PR rep that Valve is quite proud of not having

> Anything that goes there is a carefully choreographed dance between the journalist and the PR rep You mean the PR rep that Valve is quite proud of not having? How about instead of busyworking the numbers to death, just listen to Gabe for an hour or so? There are plenty of talks/interviews of him to go around. If that doesn't give you a rather unmistakable impression of what he is up to then you have a calibration error. Maybe instead of talking msm, m&a, sales, profits and billions, try honing your human modules a little more. If Mr. Newell sells out to Microsoft, he's an idiot. From what I can tell, he is very much not an idiot. How's that for an analysis?