Valve’s Doug Lombardi has described today’s rumourmongering that the studio is to be bought by Google as "100% rumour".
Speaking to Spong, the marketing boss’ description of the story is the first comment made by the studio.
Google has described the story as "rumour and speculation", although clearly both have yet to flat-out deny the possibility.
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