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Steam is now publishing movies too

While once solely home to some of the latest and greatest games in the world, Valve's Steam platform has expanded far beyond that in recent years. Along with various forms of software, Valve has also begun selling and distributing documentary films too. And now it's extending that form of entertainment publishing to feature length films as well, with the release of Motivational Growth, a movie from Devolver Digital, the publisher of Hotline Miami, about a man and his mould. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX2gsueJQXo']

Motivational Growth stars Adrian DiGiovanni as Ian Folliver, a depressed 30 something who hasn't left his apartment in over a year. It's within his enclosed world that he befriends a pile of mould growing in his kitchen. While seemingly benign, before long the mould has designs on his new friend's life and Ian realises it might not be the new best pal he thought it was.

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The film launches later today priced at $7.99, according to Eurogamer, with a planned 40 per cent discount for the launch window. Although unrated, the film is listed with several adult themes, including mild drug use and nudity, as well as graphic violence and gore.

While this is quite a new direction for Steam to go in, the film – and others like it – have been available on sites like GOG for a while now anyway, so Valve isn't doing anything that strange. If successful though, it seems likely that other films could be added to the platform. Perhaps Steam could end up being a good destination to release your indie movie.

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  1. Steam is ultimately a download site, which is the opposite of how films are viewed now. Streaming is the way forward for movies, and the effort required to download a film through Steam may be more than what some people are willing to do. That being said, if it puts more eyes on independent films then I’m not complaining; and I have to say, the quality of Indie Game: The Movie was great, much better than I would find on most streaming sites.

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