Latest about Gabe Newell
Multi-billionaire Gabe Newell says the whole startup culture of pitching VCs makes no business sense: 'A great way of destroying money and wasting peoples' time'
News "The key is to ignore all the distractions."
Gabe Newell's daily routine is 'get up, work, go scuba diving,' says he's been 'retired for a long time' but works 7 days a week: 'The things I get to do every day are super-awesome'
News "I'm working from my bedroom as you can tell."
Gabe Newell co-founded a neuroscience company in 2019 and its first brain chip is expected to ship later this year
news It's very preliminary at this stage, but things are happening.
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 good at what they did'
News It's kind of a team fortress, too.
Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would've included an ice gun with 'kind of like a Silver Surfer mode,' and Valve just released footage
news Also: "hoppy blobs." Here's our best glimpse at the cancelled Episode 3 yet.
'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'
news Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never happened because Newell "couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward."
Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit
news Newell had requested a remote deposition in the Wolfire v. Valve case because of concerns about contracting Covid-19.
Left 4 Dead's first internal playtest was so disastrous, Gabe Newell asked its lead: 'Why don't I just play Counter-Strike instead?' then 'made me watch him play it'
News The game was originally built around four vs. four PvP, but it was "a mess."
