via: Kotaku

"It's official. Electronic Arts has thrown in with Valve, cozying up to Steam with a half-dozen titles from its library, an announcement semi-spoiled by the sudden appearance of Spore earlier this week.

Now available digitally are Mass Effect, Need For Speed Undercover, Spore (and the Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack), FIFA Manager 09 and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. We'd consider that a big win for Valve, considering EA's kind of the competition with its own EA Store.

The official word tells us that Mirror's Edge, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 and Dead Space will join them "in the coming weeks."

We're still looking into the copyright protection measures employed on the EA catalog and hope that everything's hunky-dory. Thanks to Michael for the heads up."

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I reallly hope that the crap that is Securom gets taken out of these games. Still, if games like Bioshock and Crysis/Warhead didn't, I'm doubting that games like Spore, Mirror's Edge, and Red Alert 3 will get their Securom removed.

Also, is it fair to have install limits on games through Steam? I mean, Steam boasts the convience of downloading games online, I think it would be lame to still have install limits on EA's games even though they're using Steam.. It's almost like it's one step backwards.

Anyway, what major publishers are left that don't have their games on Steam?

Bump and very good news for steam lovers!

Bioshock wasn't made or published by EA at all.

But yeah, hopefully the games don't have crappy DRM added on.

Although, I do hate it when people pirate games just to "make a stand" against secuROM and all that. I'm sure half of them just wanted a lame excuse to pirate and also sleep well at night.

I didn't say it was from EA, but I thought it did still have DRM with it even on the Steam version.

The games don't have any extra DRM, but at the moment it's North America only.

Looks like EA really don't want my money. And I bet FIFA Manager 09 sells like bomb.

any extra drm? as in none at all or none added to what they had in previous releases?

No SecuROM/ limited activations.

Well, considering that EA wanted to stop piracy and reselling of the game, I think Steam offers a way where they wont need the Securom used in regular retail copies.

Especially when it comes to the game activations, they shouldn't need it now since games on Steam are tied to your account, you couldn't just resell them to others.

People are saying that the terrible DRM has been taken out, I think I'm starting to believe them.

I was wondering, if I have a game on the EA download manager, can I get it off of Steam too?

DD is now one step closer to destroying retail stores. Good.