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Gabe Logan Newell (born November 3, 1962), also known by his nickname Gaben, is an American video game developer and businessman. He is the president and co-founder of the video game company Valve Corporation .
Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.It is the developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the game franchises Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and Dota.
Mike Harrington (born 1964) is an American programmer and businessman. With Gabe Newell, he is the co-founder of the video game company Valve.After the success of the first Valve product, Half-Life (1998), Harrington left Valve in 2000.
The reception of their games, along with the creation of Steam, has prompted some publications to list Valve as one of the top game developers of all time and the most powerful company in PC gaming. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Newell received a BAFTA Fellowship award in 2013 for recognizing the impact Valve had left on the gaming industry in producing ...
1up has posted its video interview with Gabe Newell, thus ending their weeklong lust for all things Half-Life. In the two part video interview (totaling 17 minutes), Mr. Head Honcho Newell himself ...
Gabe Newell stated that Big Picture mode was a step towards a dedicated Steam entertainment hardware unit. [139] With the introduction of the Steam Deck, Valve began pushing the new Big Picture mode based on the Steam Deck UI in beta testing in October 2022, and full release in February 2023.
In March 2020, Newell said "the [Steam Machine] hardware we were pushing for was super-incomplete at the time." Gabe Newell noted that Steam Machines impacted Valve's design for the Valve Index and Half-Life: Alyx, which, like the Steam Machine and SteamOS, were intended to be "hardware and software in concert with each other." [68]
TIL that Gabe Newell owns a marine research company, and now mostly lives at sea on his boats and submarines. #118 TIL Mr Bean’s (Rowan Atkinson) son is a Gurkha.