As we recently learned, Valve co-founder, Gabe Newell, is currently hunkered down in New Zealand while the COVID-19 situation gets sorted out in the United States. He has already appeared on New Zealand TV once to thank the country for its hospitality by announcing a free concert. Now, Newell has …
Read More »Gabe Newell has been a ‘COVID refugee’ in New Zealand since March
Half-Life: Alyx has been out since March 2020 and you may have been wondering, what have the folks at Valve been up to since then? Well in the case of Gabe Newell, he’s been a ‘COVID refugee’ in New Zealand for the last few months and as a thank you …
Read More »Steam Workshop came about after Gabe Newell began gold farming in WoW
Steam Workshop has been around for years now and many of us just assumed that the idea came about due to Valve’s history with the modding community. As it turns out though, part of the reason Workshop came into existence is thanks to World of Warcraft, as Gabe Newell got …
Read More »Dota 2’s Gabe Newell announcer pack is as dry as humour can get
Alongside the official launch of Steam TV catering to Valve’s $25 million Dota 2 tournament, fans of the MOBA got something they never knew they wanted so badly: a Gabe Newell Mega Kills announcer pack. The Valve CEO graces players with a deadpan delivery that perhaps rivals the comedic stylings …
Read More »Gabe Newell’s eldest son creates community focused indie developer, Naetyr
Following in the footsteps of his father, Gray Newell, has co-founded a new independent game studio called Naetyr. Opening up about his first game, a work-in-progress titled Fury, Gray hopes to step out from Valve co-creator Gabe Newell’s shadow and craft something of his own merit. Considering Fury is still …
Read More »Gabe Newell is now among the top 100 richest people in the U.S.
It’s well known that Valve made a lot of money from a considerably small team, however just how rich Steam boss Gabe Newell is has always been up for debate. According to Forbes’ top 400 richest people in America this year, however, he has made the top 100. Good-man Gabe …
Read More »Gabe Newell and Valve talk 200Hz VR screens, next-gen headsets and more
Valve CEO Gabe Newell and members of the company’s virtual reality developmental team sat down recently with the Valve News Network to talk about what it’s been working on lately and what we can expect in the future. During it they discussed the idea of content before price cuts, newer, …
Read More »Gabe Newell talks Half Life 3, Movies, Steam Support, VR in AMA
Valve CEO and founder Gabe Newell took to Reddit in the early hours of this morning to take part in an Ask Me Anything (AMA), where he answered questions about his love of the Portal games, a movie set in that universe, Steam’s support system, virtual reality and more. He …
Read More »Gabe Newell is doing an AMA tomorrow, 17th January
CEO and founder of Valve and oft-cited saviour of PC gaming, Gabe Newell, will be conducting a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the site on 17th January at 3PM PST (11PM GMT). This was secured by the new “The_Gaben” subreddit, mere days after being founded and it’s been confirmed …
Read More »Valve turned 20 yesterday: happy birthday!
In a world where game developers and publishers come and go, folding, founding, merging and being bought out by larger entities, Valve has been a real constant for the past two decades. It’s given us a lot of big games and big milestones in gaming, so today we celebrate its …
Read More »Valve gives VR developers funds too, but with no strings attached
Poor Gabe Newell. It seems he can’t go five minutes without someone emailing him asking about Valve’s stance on exclusive games. We should know it by now: it doesn’t like it. Still, it does seem like each time he opens up about it, Newell tells us a little more. In …
Read More »Gabe Newell, Phil Spencer hate VR exclusivity as much as you
There’s been a lot of discussion around virtual reality exclusivity and Oculus’ attempts to create a gated community around its titles, but everyone else seems to hate it. Including it turns out, Valve founder Gabe Newell and head of Xbox Phil Spencer, both of whom have spoken out against this …
Read More »Gabe Newell wins over developers with free HTC Vives
Valve founder Gabe Newell made a brief speech at this year’s Vision Summit 2016 organised by Unity, in which he broke down some of the exciting announcements coming at the event. However he seemed particularly pumped about what he called his “Oprah moment,” in the latter half of the speech, …
Read More »Valve sued again by consumer group over no-game resales
Valve is set to head to court in Europe once again, after another consumer group announced it was suing the Steam owner for not providing its users the ability to resell games that they had previously purchased. This time though, the group is French and they’re annoyed at other things …
Read More »Gabe Newell defends paid for mods
Poor Valve probably has no idea what’s going on at the moment. It’s normally the apple of every gamer’s eye, unable to do no wrong, but that’s not the case right now. Since it was announced late last week that the Half Life developer had made it possible for modders …
Read More »Gabe Newell claims Valve has solved the VR motion sickness problem
The man himself, Gabe Newell, is confident that Valve has solved the virtual reality motion sickness problem with its new headset, ‘The Vive’, claiming that “zero percent of people get motion sick” while using Steam VR technology. Virtual Reality had some initial problems with causing motion sickness, although over the …
Read More »Gabe Newell death threat game makes it back on Steam
Paranautical Activity has reappeared on Steam, several months after being pulled when one of the developers threatened Gabe Newell’s life over Twitter. Since then that particular developer quit and then rejoined the company and now the game itself is back on Steam. To make up for his transgressions, the team …
Read More »Gabe Newell has been turned in to a Dota 2 character
Gabe Newell has been turned in to a Dota 2 character, thanks to a new skin that turns the game’s shop keeper in to a heroic version of Gaben himself. The skin isn’t available just yet but you can upvote it on the Steam workshop in order to get it put …
Read More »Mike Maulbeck rejoins Code Avarice following Twitter outburst
Apparently Mike Maulbeck couldn’t commit to his resignation and has rejoined his studio, Code Avarice. Maulbeck originally left the studio he co-founded after having his game removed from Steam following a Twitter outburst that resulted in him claiming he was going to kill Gabe Newell. “This is probably not hugely …
Read More »Indie Dev resigns after Twitter rant at Gabe Newell
Indie developer, Mike Maulbeck, went on a little Twitter rant last night, which resulted in him claiming that he was going to “kill Gabe Newell”. Once the tweet spread around, Valve decided to pull his game, Paranautical Activity from Steam. After embarrassing himself on the Internet, Maulbeck has now resigned. …
Read More »Gabe Newell death threat dev has game pulled from Steam
There’s been a lot of discussions about online death threats and harassment as of late, most of the evidence of which is swirling around the dunce cap wearing tempest in the corner called GamerGate. However it turns out that threatening to kill the founder of Valve, Game Newell isn’t a …
Read More »Counter Strike creator talks Half Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3
Usually Valve and its employees are pretty tight lipped on what the company might secretly be working on, however, one former Valve employee and Counter Strike creator, Minh Le, has shed some light on both Half Life 3 and the upcoming Left 4 Dead 3, which is said to be running …
Read More »Steam Summer Sale could be starting in two days time
Valve has announced that the Steam Trading Cards, that achievement like, collectible, reward scheme announced earlier this year, is set to leave beta as of 26th June, meaning everyone can get ahold of them. However, the Half Life maker also teased something else on that date, “an event we think …
Read More »Valve’s business boomed 50 per cent in 2012
Gabe Newell got a chance to speak in the UK recently, after being awarded the fellowship Bafta. The acceptance speech was full of the sort of thanks and jokes you’d expect, but the interview afterwards was a bit more illuminating: Gabe said Valve had grown by as much as 50 …
Read More »More Valve staff let go – as many as 25
While we don’t quite know the extent of the layoffs just yet, it’s being suggested by a few sources that as many as 25 of Valve’s staff may have been let go as part of “group layoffs,” from all over the company – business networking, hardware development and more. We …
Read More »Gabe Newell talks Steam of the future
Gabe Newell has been speaking out about the future of Steam quite a bit recently, with a lot of focus of expanding its reach and giving better opportunities to smaller developers. However, he’s also been thinking about having much less Valve involvement, replacing its current gatekeeper like system with an …
Read More »Gabe Newell clears up Steam Box confusion
Ok so yesterday I might have jumped the gun a bit saying we were looking at “Valve’s console.” It isn’t. Still, it will be part of a new lineup of Steam compatible hardware that are designed as small form factor PCs for gaming in your lounge. Yes I also said …
Read More »League of Legends coming to Steam?
League of Legends has been making a lot of journalistic waves in the past few days, with the biggest focus on the removal and crack down on trolls. However the big rumour today is that the world’s most popular game could be coming to Steam. The hints come from entries …
Read More »Gabe Newell clarifies class action clause
Head at Valve, Gabe Newell, has expanded on the initial official statement regarding the company’s Terms of Service that forced players to agree that they could not take out a class action lawsuit against Valve; apparently it’s because lawyers suck. This all came out as part of a 4Chan visit …
Read More »Valve is entering hardware market
While it’s been rumoured, hinted at and teased for a long time, we now have confirmation that Valve is set to enter the hardware market. Granted, it’s not from an official announcement, but a job posting on the Valve website looking for someone to develop hardware. The available position is …
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