Tag: gaben
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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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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…
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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…