A hot topic in the gaming community has been the "PC gaming is dying" claim that some of the retailers and game developers have been saying for quite some time. Shacknews interviewed Valve's big boss Doug Lombardi, who said in the very beginning that Valve actually laughs to at that claim. "I mean, I think, we sort of laugh at it," he starts. "Because we've been wildly successful--we're very fortunate, you know."

"Our games have all done really, really well, Steam has taken off and become this whole other business for us, Valve has never been in better shape--and yet everybody is talking about how in the PC world the sky is falling."

Valve has done the job for 12 years, since the company started, and 10 years ago they created their first game, Half-Life. The company is also filled up with over 160 people, and when they started it was only 20 people doing the work. "We don't understand why that story gets traction over time," he marks.

"I think people have finally started to clue in to the fact--there was a story last week where people finally looked at the online subscription revenues for World of WarCraft and all the things that look like World of WarCraft, and realized, wow, there was a butt-load of cash being made here that wasn't being counted at the register, at retail, in North America, which is where all these stories come out of."