A report that Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the Bellevue headquarters of video game company Valve last week stirred up all sorts of speculation, as we reported at the time.

But the report was incorrect, says Valve boss Gabe Newell in an excerpt from an interview made public today. Game site Kotaku has the details from the Seven Day Cooldown podcast. Here’s what Newell said on the podcast.

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 rumors that was stated so factually that we were actually confused.

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.

Valve hadn’t commented on the report prior to this point.

Via TechMeme.

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