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Valve's Gabe Newell predicts AI will lead to a "funny situation" where "people who don't know how to program" could be "more effective" than people "who've been programming for a decade"

From his Steam throne, Valve billionaire says businesses should just "listen to your customers and focus on them"

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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'

"I'm working from my bedroom as you can tell."

PC Gamer

What happened to the creator of Gunman Chronicles, Valve's forgotten FPS? 'My relationship with Gabe didn't really go that great'

Tracing the history of an ancient Valve artefact.

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Valve does its homework the night before deadline: Switches Steam to run on Mac chips right as Apple announces it's ditching Intel for good

Incredible news if you are A) Me B) One of like three other people on Earth.

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While we wait for a price and release date, here's everything we know about the Steam Frame

I'm rounding up everything we know about Steam Frame while we wait for a price and release date from Valve amidst the RAM price apocalypse.

GamesRadar

Half-Life 3 obsessives put Valve boss Gabe Newell under the microscope, tracking his yacht as it gets kind of, sort of, actually not at all near the Summer Game Fest venue

Is stalking wrong if it's for the sake of all gamerkind?

GamesRadar

Gabe Newell co-founded a neuroscience company in 2019 and its first brain chip is expected to ship later this year

It's very preliminary at this stage, but things are happening.

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Gabe Newell’s brain-computer interface startup to reveal first chips later this year

Starfish Neuroscience, a startup backed by Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell, has published an article revealing the first details of its brain-computer interface (BCI) chip.

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Valve only wants to make new Half-Life games if they push the medium forward, but what could it push forward next?

If Half-Life 3 ever happens, what big innovation would justify it in Gabe Newell's eyes?

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Valve considered making a 'B title' before Half-Life, until an exec told Gabe Newell 'that's just not gonna work… the company will fail'

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Valve leads considered making a "mediocre" game before Half-Life to build the team up, but original marketing exec said "if you do that, the company will fail"

"I told Gabe that I thought the only way that Half-Life was really going to work was if it was named Game of the Year"

GamesRadar

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'

It's kind of a team fortress, too.

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell had his eyes on a social network in the '90s that 'was not in a games context at all'—meaning Valve-owned social media could've been a very real thing

"It probably wouldn't have looked anything like Facebook."

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell is hooked on Stalker 2 and once he's got the fourth ending (!) will 'figure out what I'm going to play next'

Taking a break from buying megayachts.

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Helldivers 2 players "became obsessed" with Malevolon Creek, but it was Gabe Newell who really kicked off one of Super Earth's bloodiest battles

The rally we didn't know we needed

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Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an idle threat—we weren't going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich'

"Gabe had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with games."

PC Gamer

Marketing guy invents the concept of 'Real Steam' to explain why 'magic' games, AKA good games, end up selling: 'Don't tell Valve'

The return of the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious.

GamesRadar

"Valve would never ship another game": Former exec forced Half-Life publisher's hand by saying Gabe Newell and the team would pivot away from game dev

"I knew Gabe had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with games"

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Go ahead and complain the discounts aren't as steep as they used to be, but Steam just had its biggest year ever for seasonal sales

Themed sales too.

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Valve's Deckard VR headset sounds like a Steam Deck with a head strap, and that's a very good thing

Valve is rumored to be releasing a new VR headset in 2025, and despite a high asking price, if it's half the product that the Steam Deck is, I'm all in.

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'Half-Life 3': Release Date, Development Status, Leaks and Rumors

'Half-Life 3' has been anticipated so long it seems destined to never launch. But rumors over the past year make it more likely than ever that the next Half-Life game is actually on the way.

PC Gamer

We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

Valve is actually smaller than Larian, but in terms of pure money-making efficiency there's nobody bigger.

PC Gamer

Half-Life 2 testers horsing around with physics props 'to make the 47th playthrough of the game more interesting' probably had no idea it would result in Gabe Newell launching a garden gnome into space 16 years later

Cratebaby lives.

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell says no-one in the industry thought Steam would work as a distribution platform—'I'm not talking about 1 or 2 people, I mean like 99%'

"It was a very weird time."

GamesRadar

Valve was "pretty close to going bankrupt" until it was saved from a pre-Half-Life 2 lawsuit by a summer intern who happened to major in Korean language studies

Gabe Newell's personal finances were on the line too

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