Frank Azor, Senior Manager of Product Planning for Dell's Gaming Group, explained the decision. "With its automatic game updates, easy friend finding and the ability to play your Steam purchased games on any PC, Valve has helped simplify PC Gaming to make it more enjoyable."

While this is great news for the digital distribution juggernaut, there are those who likely won't be happy about the partnership. Stardock's recent assertions that Steam already owns 70% of the digi-distribution market share lends even more weight to the notion of Steam's rising supremacy in the digital download marketplace.