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Gabe Newell acquires yacht company building the $400 million ocean-fortress he'll pick up later this year, because he 'respects the sea'
By Joshua Wolens published
News I respect the sea. Where's my yacht company?

New Steam update adds new 'customise' tab your games—letting you finally organise things by release date, or just look at Big Naturals Withers every time you open Baldur's Gate 3
By Harvey Randall published
News Huge news for the kind of people that put their meetings on a spreadsheet.

Gabe Newell says young people need to use AI tools to get 'off to the races' rather than 'reading articles on Variety to try to understand what its impact is going to be'
By Rich Stanton published
News "I think [AI is] going to be 10 times as significant as the impact of CGI was on filmmaking."

Steam has a razzle-dazzle new video player that's actually usable, but press F for the unlucky Valve employees who had to re-encode all 400,000+ trailers on the platform
By Joshua Wolens published
News Unnamed heroes, all.

Itch.io is 'actively reaching out to other payment processors' after pressure from credit card companies to curtail NSFW content, and that compared to Valve, it has 'limited ability to push back'
By Harvey Randall published
News Clearing up the confusion.

Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs
By Harvey Randall last updated
NOBODY WINS "Cutting these women off from income streams and audiences does nothing to 'protect' them."

Valve CEO Gabe Newell says success isn't about following your passion: 'Sounds like a great idea, but lots of people follow their passions right into a crater, you know?'
By Rich Stanton published
News He's very much a people person.

Team Fortress 2 gets a boost on Steam charts with summer update, including a slew of community creations
By Stevie Bonifield published
news Even 18 years after release, TF2 is still a top-seller on Steam.

Gabe Newell says the difference between billionaires and the rest of us is 'an awful lot of luck'
By Tyler Wilde published
news "...It would be great to say I'm just this absolutely f***ing wonderful person, and that I earned all of this, and that this expresses my awesomeness, but..."

The first 'real videogame' Gabe Newell played was Star Trek, where you made your choices via punch cards before running over to the printer: 'It usually takes about 15 minutes to do a move'
By Rich Stanton published
News "This was just a complete distraction or a waste of time versus what I was supposed to be doing."
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