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  • Gabe Newell: Modders absolutely need to be compensated

    Remember the last time when Valve tried to introduce paid mods on Steam? It didn’t go well and it did not survive contact with the PC gaming community. When the proposal was announced in April 2015 with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as a pilot game it mostly got negative feedback. Shortly after that Valve removed the feature…

  • Chance to win Hatred thanks to Destructive Creations!

    Heyyyy! Thanks to Destructive Creations – a Polish independent studio – I’m proudly presenting our brand new giveaway. In this one you’ll have a chance to win Hatred for Steam! If you’re not familiar with the title… well lets say it’s been pretty controversial, got removed from Greenlight (for the psychotic idea I guess?) and…

  • Valve listens… at least for now.

    Here’s good news guys. Few days ago Gabe Newell showed up on reddit, acting like he doesn’t know what the big deal is about. On Thursday I was flying back from LA. When I landed, I had 3,500 new messages. Hmmm. Looks like we did something to piss off the Internet. Yesterday I was distracted…

  • 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.…

  • Microsoft doesn’t consider Valve as competition

    Valve finally prepares to roll out prototypes for its Steam Box in as little as four months. During a talk at Microsoft’s TechForum conference earlier this week (via The Verge), Microsoft’s head of Interactive Entertainment Business Don Mattrick – that’s “Xbox boss” – said a simple “no” in response to being asked if he considers…

  • Valve fires few people, including Jason Holtman

    Here’s some sad (?) news. Copy pasta from Gamasutra: Several employees were let go from Steam andHalf-Life maker Valve on Tuesday. The lay offs affected couple of employees (approx. 25) describing the incident include “great cleansing” and “large decisions.” Affected employees were asked not to speak about specifics, but the impression we get is that…

  • Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams: Games vs Movies

    If you don’t wanna watch it or don’t really have the time – they are thinking of working together on either Portal or Half-Life movie and probably a new Valve game. If you have no idea who JJ Abrams is, he made things like: latest Star Trek movie, Fringe TV show, making new Star Wars…

  • 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…

  • The Verge: Gabe Newell’s exclusive interview on Steam Box

    Check out this cool interview with Gabe Newell, talking about Steam Box, biometrics and Windows 8! So you’re working on your own Steam Box hardware. Why work with so many partners when you have your own ideal design in mind? What we see is you’ve got this sort of struggle going on between closed proprietary…

  • Valve will release its own console with Linux based Steam on board

    At last night’s Video Game Awards, Gabe Newell confirmed the company’s plans to sell its own living room PC that could compete with next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft. The biggest revelation is that Valve seems set to release its own complete hardware and software solution. Newell says that he expects companies to start selling…

  • EA wants to buy Valve for $1 000 000 000

      Electronic Arts has reportedly been making a play to purchase Half-Life and Portal studio Valve. The New York Times reports that EA has sought to purchase the firm for years, valuing the company at well over $1 billion. Valve isn’t likely to sell to anyone anytime soon. According to "people with knowledge of the…

  • Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 a catastrophe

    Operating system Windows 8 will be a "catastrophe" for PC game makers, according to Valve Software’s boss. Speaking at the Casual Connect game conference in Seattle, Gabe Newell said the next version of Windows could mean big changes to the PC market. Many took his comment as a criticism of the changed user interface in…

  • EA: Origin won’t copy Steam 75% off sales

    Origin boss David DeMartini told Gamesindustry International that random deep-discounting of games "cheapens" intellectual property, and promised not to copy the practice. "We won’t be doing that," he said, bluntly. "Obviously they think it’s the right thing to do after a certain amount of time. I just think it cheapens your intellectual property. “ "I…

  • Gabe Newell – Steam for Linux will be publicly available later this year

    Source: Phoronix

  • Steam soon to introduce used game selling and new refund policy!

    YES! Finally Valve Software has decided that soon all Steam users will be able to sell or give away their own “used” games off their Steam accounts. Here is what Gabe Newell said: “We are happy to announce that soon (May 1st) all Steam users who bought at least one game using Steam will be…

  • Gabe is more than fine… financially

    Forbes editors have decided to estimate Gabe Newell’s fortune recently. As you realize there’s a list with the richest people in the world on which Gabe turned out to be… 854. This may sound not that great right? But as it turns out, if he wanted to sell his shares to someone else, he would…

  • Message from Gabe

    Here’s a message from Gabe about the recent database leak: Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users We continue our investigation of last year’s intrusion with the help of outside security experts. In my last note about this, I described how intruders had accessed our Steam database but we found no evidence that the intruders…

  • Steam app comes from many direct requests from Steam users

    Gabe Newell said that it’s going to be a great addition and was a result of many direct requests from their customers. “The Steam app comes from many direct requests from our customers,” he said “Seeing which of your friends are online and playing a game, sending quick messages, looking at screenshots for an upcoming…

  • Gabe Newell: Piracy is a “Non-issue” to Valve; Providing better Services Will Result in More Sales

    In a recent interview with TCS, Gabe Newell explained why Valve is so successful. Recently we posted how Ubisoft were abandoning the PC market due to piracy, and imposing heavy DRM on their customers, but according to Newell that’s not really the right way to go about it. He said that there is a general…

  • Steam database compromised, what now?

    Check this e-mail from Gabe: Edit: It turns out it’s probably fake but we’ll see:  

  • Gabe Newell: Rise to Power

       

  • 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…

  • Portal 2 – New E3 trailer for PS3!

    Gabe Newell announced Portal 2 for PS3, here’s the trailer: