GamersGate [SEP] operating system
GamersGate
GamersGate AB (formerly Gamer's Gate) is a Sweden-based online video game store offering electronic strategy guides and games for Windows, OS X, and Linux via direct download. It is a competitor to online video game services such as Steam, GOG.com, Direct2Drive, and Impulse.
GamersGate sells games for over 250 publishers and developers, including Electronic Arts, Atari, Bethesda Softworks, 2K Games, Ubisoft, SEGA, Capcom, Paradox Interactive and Epic Games as well as smaller independent developers such as
subculture. Bergquist predicts that Steam will lose market share as the market widens in the future and that GamersGate, with its considerably less cumbersome client-free and DRM-free system, is well positioned to grow rapidly. Disagreement over Steam's embracing of DRM technologies has led GamersGate and others to boycott the distribution of popular titles like "" that contain software such as IWNET, a player matchmaking service that works through Steam and therefore requires a Steam client and account. Describing games containing such software as Trojan horses, GamersGate and