It's a glorious day for the guys over at Valve. They now hold the keys to what is essentially the official PC game download service. Or at least, it seems that way, given today's announcement and release of a series of EA games, now available for download. Yes, EA has finally given in. The best news? It's all DRM free, besides Steam's own version of DRM, which is as unobtrusive as necessary to appease the anti-DRM crowd (which includes myself, given the limitations I've faced with Spore as of late).

With EA as one of the big holdouts, and certainly the largest of game publishers out there right now, I can only foresee good things for Steam's future now that they are on board. It seems like an inevitability for other publisher holdouts to give in and join the age of digital distribution, with Valve at the helm.

The only problem? Do we really want to see one company with all that power over PC gaming? My personal opinion is yes. Yes we do. Steam happens to be my download service of choice due to the ease and reliability of downloading a game. Sure, Steam still has its bumps and rough patches every now and then, and I curse every time the service is sluggish enough to give me that error message saying "the service is temporarily unavailable," but for the most part, it works ,and it works well. It also happens to have the best selection of game of any other service out there, beginning with Valve's own excellent lineup.