14 DAY TRIAL // Valve boss Gabe Newell has denied ever meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, after a rather interesting report appeared a few weeks ago, which said that Cook paid a visit to the studio's headquarters in Kirkland, Washington.
While there are certainly many videogame companies out there bigger than Valve, the independent studio is still very powerful, owning not just lots of popular franchises, including Half-Life, Counter-Strike or Portal, but also the Steam digital distribution service on the PC and Mac platforms.
As such, when it was first revealed that Apple CEO Tim Cook had visited Valve's headquarters, it was apparent that the company behind the Mac platform, as well as the iOS one, wanted some feedback on its gaming strategy.
Sadly, this didn't happen, as Newell has just revealed on the Seven Day Cooldown podcast, via Kotaku, that Tim Cook didn't come anywhere near its headquarters.
"We actually, we all sent mail to each other, going, 'Who's Tim Cook meeting with? Is he meeting with you? I'm not meeting with Tim Cook.' So we're... it's one of those rumours that was stated so factually that we were actually confused," said the Valve boss.
"No one here was meeting with Tim Cook or with anybody at Apple that day. I wish we were! We have a long list of things we'd love to see Apple do to support games and gaming better. But no, we didn't meet with Tim Cook. He seems like a smart guy, but I've never actually met him."
The presence of Steam on Mac has certainly made videogame companies notice the platform, bringing more and more games to it, but it's still lagging behind the PC.
Meanwhile, the iOS platform may be great for games, but the closed nature of the App Store still drives some developers away.
Hopefully, Apple might hear companies like Valve out and make some changes to benefit gamers with products from the large manufacturer.