Valve considered making a 'B title' before Half-Life, until an exec told Gabe Newell 'that's just not gonna work… the company will fail'
Harrington says Valve was headhunting developers in the late 90s, and one of the ideas linked to this was to work on another ...
Gabe Newell had his eyes on a social network in the '90s that 'was not in a games context at all'—meaning Valve-owned social media could've been a very real thing
While this is interesting in itself—another fascinating snippet she shared was about how Gabe Newell, circa 1998 to the early ...
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Valve founder Gabe Newell is so into Stalker 2, he’s already found the fourth ending
Half-Life and Steam creator Gabe Newell has been playing so much Stalker 2, he's already found all four endings.
Gabe Newell's cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he 'delighted in people on the team just being really go…
I'm not sure there's any single figure in the games industry that people are more intrigued by than Gabe Newell. He has a ...
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Valve's Gabe Newell Reveals What Game He's Been Playing Recently
Valve Corporation co-founder Gabe Newell reveals what game he's been playing recently and what he plans to do after beating ...
Helldivers 2 players "became obsessed" with Malevolon Creek, but it was Gabe Newell who really kicked off one of Super Earth's bloodiest battles
We can't see anything wrong with our servers.' And it was our friend Gabe N [ewell, the owner of Steam]. It was [a] Steam ...
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A year after Malevelon Creek became Helldivers 2's fiercest battleground, it looks like the Automatons are coming back for more
If you've been playing Helldivers 2 since it came out last year, then you're likely a veteran of Malevelon Creek. Its dense ...
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The Dramatic Half-Life Deal That Altered The Fate Of Valve Forever
The terms of the deal, Harrington said, was that Valve would fund all but $1 million of the development costs of Half-Life's ...
Steam's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew and his trusty CD burner
Harrington has a somewhat contentious relationship with Valve's origin story. In 2024, she said that her name had been erased ...
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Gabe Newell is hooked on Stalker 2 and once he's got the fourth ending (!) will 'figure out what I'm going to play next'
Gabe Newell's cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he 'delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did' ...
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In a couple of recent interviews with New Zealand’s 1 NEWS, Valve Software’s Gabe Newell has offered a few insights on what might be next for the Bellevue, Wash.-based gaming… Read More Here ...
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Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is a former Microsoftie: Which game did he port to Windows 95 during his tenure?
After dropping out of Harvard in 1983, Gabe Newell joined Microsoft and spent 13 years at the software company. During his tenure, he contributed to the development of Windows 1.01, 1.02 ...