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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.
Half-Life 2 just got a patch that fixes a progress-blocking teleporter bug and makes a train easier to race
News Full steam ahead.
Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout
News An absolute mess.
Gabe Newell says AI is a 'significant technology transition' on a par with the emergence of computers or the internet, and will be 'a cheat code for people who want to take advantage of it'
News "If I had to point to a technology transition to get in front of, it's to figure out how to use AI to do anything better."
'Dangerous on a whole new level'—while Steam's policy change is new, the shadow of credit card meddling has been looming for a while, with Nier: Automata's Yoko Taro sounding the alarm last year
News "A security hole that endangers democracy itself."
Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there
news Everyone hated that.
The brainbox behind Valve's Steam Labs says the number of Steam releases featuring GenAI in 2025 is 1 in 5, with 7% of all games on there now incorporating it: 'We’ve octupled last year’s figure'
News But there's still "a vocal anti-AI sentiment among artists and gamers who simply won’t buy games with this stuff in."
