Tag: newell
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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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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