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Such has been the backlash to Steam’s introduction of paid-for mods that Valve founder Gabe Newell has taken to Reddit to address one of the move’s most critical communities. Premium mods went live last week but quickly evoked a fearsome response online. Our goal is to make modding better for …
Read More »Valve gives the nod for Gabe Newell boss fight in indie title Crawl
Developer Powerhoof has been given the nod to introduce Valve co-founder Gabe Newell into its new dungeon crawler Crawl. As reported by Polygon, artist Barny Cumming said that the addition of Newell as one of the game’s bosses has been at the top of my list since the very start". …
Read More »Valve approves Gabe Newell boss for indie game
Founder of Steam firm will be added to retro-styled dungeon crawler Crawl as a knife-wielding foe
Read More »Newell: None of our choices have been made by financial analysis
Gabe Newell opens up on famous flat management structure, cliques and finances
Read More »Newell: The iPhone should be more like the PC
The Valve boss on the importance of freedom for developers
Read More »Is VR going to change the world? Find out in this week’s MCV
Now that consumer virtual reality headsets are finally on the horizon, are they really going to change the world as firms like Oculus would have us believe? We speak to HTC’s connected products marketing boss Jeff Gattis to see what it is doing to ensure the sucess of its Vive …
Read More »Newell: SteamVR headset has 0% motion sickness rate
Valve reckons it has cracked the motion sickness problem that virtual reality headsets cause with a number of players. Boss Gabe Newell admitted to The New York Times that he’d reacted badly to previous demonstrations of VR tech, describing them as the world’s best motion sickness inducers”. However, the company’s …
Read More »Gabe Newell and Markus ‘Notch’ Persson make Forbes’ 2015 Rich List
Both development figureheads hold around $1.3bn each
Read More »Gabe Newell reportedly puts Hatred back on Steam
Developer of controversial game claims Valve founder himself reversed decision
Read More »Hatred returns to Steam, allegedly with the help of Gabe Newell
Just a day after being yanked from the service, Hatred is back on Steam Greenlight. Perhaps more surprising however is that the developer of the controversial shooter says that it was Valve boss Gabe Newell himself who sought to overturn its removal. Yesterday I heard that we were taking Hatred …
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