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 ...
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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.
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“The developers just didn’t know it yet”: Valve’s Own Devs Thought Half-Life’s Jaw-Dropping E3 Demo Was Too Ambitious to Be Real
Before Half-Life changed gaming forever, its own developers weren’t sure they could pull it off but Gabe Newell had faith.
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 ...
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
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...
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 ...
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 ...
Marketing guy invents the concept of 'Real Steam' to explain why 'magic' games, AKA good games, end up selling: 'Don't tell Valve'
Among Us can be fairly considered an exception to any Steam rule (its popularity exploded two years after release, and this ...
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Why I swapped my gaming PC for a Steam Deck and didn’t look back
In the end, convenience won out when it came to deciding to keep my Steam Deck instead of my gaming PC, and I've got ...
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Steam put an end to piracy: Giving PC gamers exactly what they want
Steam's player-first approach keeps PC gamers loyal, making piracy less appealing over time. Valve’s approach shows that ...
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Valve's Gabe Newell Reveals What Game He's Been Playing Recently
Gabe Newell has been playing a lot of STALKER 2 as of late. As of early March 2025, Newell was close to unlocking all four of the game's endings, which is something that few players have managed.