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'
Life, one of the most important games in PC history and a spectacular debut for Valve. But in another timeline, it could've ...
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 ...
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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.
Valve literally gives Half-Life away now, but 27 years ago it was carefully crushing its angry pirates: "None of them had actually bought the game"
Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Issues delivered straight to your door or device Half-Life is $2 on ...
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Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is a former Microsoftie: Which game did he port to Windows 95 during his tenure?
After dropping out of Harvard in 1983, Gabe Newell joined Microsoft ... in developing Quake at id Software – Newell and Harrington founded Valve. Their inaugural game, Half-Life, soon became ...
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Valve's Gabe Newell Reveals What Game He's Been Playing Recently
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. Valve president and co-founder, Gabe Newell, revealed that ...
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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 ...
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In a couple of recent interviews with New Zealand’s 1 NEWS, Valve Software’s Gabe Newell has offered a few insights on what might be next for the Bellevue, Wash.-based gaming… Read More Here ...
One of Valve's original executives shares a very simple secret to its success: 'You can't use up your credibility' by trying to make bad games work
"If you're in this industry, people have to trust you." ...
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Gabe Newell planned a social network from Valve in the 1990s: «There were a lot of interesting ideas not related to games»
How about a social network from Valve? It turns out that Gabe Newell planned to launch something similar to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram back in the 1990s. This was announced at Game Developer’s ...
Steam's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew and his trusty CD burner
Harrington has a somewhat contentious relationship with Valve's origin story. In 2024, she said that her name had been erased ...
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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.