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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'
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
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?'
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
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'
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'
News "This was just a complete distraction or a waste of time versus what I was supposed to be doing."
Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft 'was missing the opportunity' offered by the internet: 'I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was'
News "And if I was wrong, I'd have to go back to Microsoft."
The young Gabe Newell thought he'd be a doctor until he ended up visiting his brother at Microsoft, where 'Steve Ballmer got mad and said 'If you're going to be hanging out here, why don't you do something useful?''
News We might not have Steam if Ballmer hadn't blown his top.
