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'
Harrington says Valve was headhunting developers in the late 90s, and one of the ideas linked to this was to work on another ...
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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.
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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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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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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 ...
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 ...
"Valve would never ship another game": Former exec forced Half-Life publisher's hand by saying Gabe Newell and the team would pivot away from game dev
There's a world where a dispute with publisher Sierra might've left Half-Life as the first and last game Valve ever published ...
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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"Could put Concord at No.1": April Fools' prank sees SteamDB player counts hilariously altered, community reacts with amusement
SteamDB has brought a unique April Fools prank for users. Besides companies staging pranks on this particular day, a Reddit ...
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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Steam put an end to piracy: Giving PC gamers exactly what they want
Steam's player-first approach keeps PC gamers loyal, making piracy less appealing over time. Valve’s approach shows that ...