Tag: gabe
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Poll Time: How many games did you get on the Steam sale?
Just a simple poll right here, how many games did you buy during this Steam winter sale 2014. I’m curious! I personally didn’t get ANY game on Steam during this sale… which is weird. Go! [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no”…
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Hatred back on Steam Greenlight, thanks to Gabe!
This is awesome! According to the game’s developers, Gabe Newell contacted them to say the following: “Yesterday I heard that we were taking Hatred down from Greenlight. Since I wasn’t up to speed, I asked around internally to find out why we had done that. It turns out that it wasn’t a good decision, and we’ll be…
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Valve’s business increased by 50 percent last year
Gabe Newell stepped up to the stage during last week’s BAFTA awards to receive the prestigious Academy Fellowship for his contributions to gaming. Newell credited Valve’s successes largely to user-generated content on open platforms such as Steam Workshop before sharing some jaw-dropping numbers. “There’s sort of an insatiable demand for gaming right now,” Newell said.…
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Gabe Newell’s new vision for Steam: More choice
Gabe commented on Steam’s approval process: Steam is a “dictatorship” and that has to change. At a candid talk at the University of Texas recently, Newell outlined his vision of where Steam is going: doing away with the approval process, converting Steam into a network API that any developer can call, transferring ownership of its…
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Half-Life 3 confirmed by a horse!
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Gabe Newell grows a beard. That is all.
Looks pretty badass to me: although a beard oil might do some good.
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Happy Birthday to Gabe Newell!
After having dropped out of Harvard University Newell spent thirteen years working for Microsoft Corporation, ultimately becoming a "Microsoft Millionaire". Newell has described himself as "producer on the first three releases of Windows". Inspired by Michael Abrash, who left Microsoft to work on the computer game Quake at id Software, Newell and another Microsoft employee,…
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Gabe Newell on piracy and DRM
“Russia now outside of Germany is our largest continental European market,” Newell was quoted as saying on Geekwire. Presumably this also means the UK is Valve’s largest continental European market. But Newell’s statement also indicates that Russia eclipses France, Spain and Scandinavian countries in terms of profits. It seems other games companies who had tried…
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Gabe Newell promises 3 big surprises in next 12 months!
In the latest issue of PC Gamer Magazine, Gabe has given his word that 3 big announcements are going to be made by Valve within the next 12 months. Here’s what Gabe said exactly: I can guarantee you people are going to be surprised at stuff we do. That isn’t going to stop any…
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VAC does make mistakes – Gabe Newell apologizes!
Here’s an official letter from Gabe Newell! Please read it. Hello, Recently, your Steam account was erroneously banned from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. This was our mistake, and I apologize for any frustration or angst it may have caused you. The problem was that Steam would fail a signature check between the disk…
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Gabe Newell on the criticism over the PS3 Steam Cloud
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Steam grows by 205% in 2009
Steam keeps growing even though the prices are very high in Europe – people are still paying for the digital downloads (although we can’t really say if Steam is more popular in USA or Europe). Steam, now has over 25 million active users. Those 25 million users managed a peak concurrency of 2.5 million games…
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Gabe Newell receives GDC Pioneer Award
The 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards, the highest honors in video game development, is beginning the announcement of its Special Awards for the tenth annual ceremony, taking place at GDC 2010 this March, and has named Valve co-founder Gabe Newell as the winner of this year’s Pioneer Award. The Pioneer Award — originated by the…
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Left 4 Dead 2: PC demo delayed once more!
[poll id=”9″] Looks like they’re having a blast!
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Left 4 Dead 2: Demo delayed around 10 hours
(click for info)
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Gabe Newell in Australia
Sorry I’m posting this so late but I didn’t have much time. Here’s the presentation from Australia – with Joe (the creator of Fly Gabe Newell campaign) and Gabe Newell. Unfortunately Joe did not ask a question from our group (at least not on the video) which simply was “why do Europeans have to pay…
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The Fly Gabe Newell Fund Has Been Successful!
The creators of the Fly Gabe Newell Fund have raised over $3000 in order to fly Gabe Newell and Erik Johnson to Australia to show them their Left 4 Dead campaign. If you don’t know what the hell is this about go here first. This is one of the latest replies from Gabe Newell:…
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Good Game Interview with Gabe Newell
Pricing is one of the least important aspects? Yeah FOR YOU it is but we actually pay double in many cases Mr. Newell. Download the video (FLV format).
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Opening The Valve: The Gabe Newell Interview
Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Portal 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode 3 talk. Read the article here: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/696431/Opening-The-Valve-The-Gabe-Newell-Interview.html It’s funny how they talk about community and fans but none of them ever responded to even one e-mail about the 1€ ≠ 1$ case. Newell: I want to make sure that I don’t sound like…