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Actually they did not. It's all done through Steam. Journalists were given a key which unlocks a special preview copy on their Steam account.

Why would they be? Steamworks isn't about exclusive distribution, it's a toolset Valve offers to PC developers for free to support and boost the PC gaming market. Valve even encourages them to sell their games in as many channels they can...

Just pick one and write an email: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/people.html

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/55953/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-V-Special-Edition-Announced

Wasn't a problem for Empire: Total War, Dawn of War 2, Just Cause 2 and plenty of other Steamworks games.

Page 2 Bitmob: Starcraft 2 boasts robust modding capabilities, and Blizzard has shown off the game as a third-person shooter or a survival-horror adventure. Do the Civ 5 modding tools allow players to do similar things and create entirely different experiences? JS: It’s definitely...

Valve never talks about things like that. But some of their business partners do. For example the creators of Worms: http://forum.team17.com/showpost.php?p=720095&postcount=39 It's not Steam that sets the price, it's the developer. The developer decides what prices are in individual regions...