Kotaku: Gabe Newell

Valve on Half-Life 3 Rumors: 'This is the Community Trolling the Community'

Owen Good — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:30:00 EST

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Every popular video game has its following of wishful thinkers, wannabe designers, and straight-up trolls. None has more hard at work on the next title than Half Life 3. And they've been very busy lately. More »

Steam Hacked, Valve Investigating Possible Credit Card Theft

Owen Good — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:02:12 EST

A message sent just now from Valve Corporation head Gabe Newell says credit card numbers and other personal information were inside a database compromised during a defacement attack on the Steam forums this Sunday. More »

Valve Boss Sees a Future In Which Apple Has Killed the Video Game Console

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:30:00 EDT

Gabe Newell, the man at the top of Valve Software, has had a vision of the future. At some point in Gabe's futureworld, Apple will control the entertainment in your living room, making "the notion of a separate console platform" disappear. More »

Once Again, Gabe Newell Says Why PCs Are Great

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:00:00 EDT

PC owners, you probably already know this. Valve boss Gabe Newell sure does and lets everyone know for the umpteenth time that PCs matter. Why? Because certain people think they don't. More »

Gabe Newell Knows When the Next Half-Life is Coming. He Just Can't say it via Haiku.

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:30:00 EDT

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Valve boss Gabe Newell has a history of replying directly to emails from the public, so there's a good chance this exchange with an impatient Half-Life fan is for real. More »

Valve's Not Getting Into Competitive Fighting Games Yet, As Far as Gabe Newell Knows

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:00:00 EDT

Now, more than ever, Valve Software seems to be getting serious about competitive gaming. The Team Fortress and Portal developer snapped up DotA: All-Stars developer "IceFrog" to create a sequel to that intensely competitive MOBA game. It's also investing heavily on the competitive side of the next Counter-Strike and adding new Steam features tailored to e-sports. More »

Gabe Newell Wants to Call 'MOBA' Game Genre 'ARTS'

Jen Schiller — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:40:00 EDT

Valve's Gabe Newell on the genre of DOTA 2. More »

Can Valve Really Make a Sequel For a Game They Didn't Create?

Brian Crecente — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:00:00 EDT

Gabe Newell has a problem. More »

Portal 2 Sold Better On PC Than On Console

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:00:00 EDT

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In nearly every case when a game is released on console and PC, the console versions sell a ton more copies. Like, it's not even close. Unless we're talking about a Valve game. More »

Gabe Newell Wants EA on Steam, and is Polite About It

Brian Crecente — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:40:00 EDT

Electronic Arts has Origin. Valve has Steam. Both want you as a customer for their online game store. And so far, neither can work out their differences enough to ensure that Electronic Arts' games will be available on Valve's massive computer download service. More »

Portal 2's First DLC Will Still 'Technically' Arrive This Summer

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:30:00 EDT

That first (and free) downloadable content pack for Valve's Portal 2—originally announced in April for a summertime release—will be released mid-September, says the company. That's "still technically summer," Valve's Doug Lombardi assured Kotaku at Gamescom. More »

What Did Gabe Newell Say to the Half-Life 3 Protesters?

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:40:00 EDT

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Where the hell is the next Half-Life game? That's what two Vancouver-based Valve fans wanted to know when they set up shop opposite the headquarters of the people criminally late on shipping Half-Life 2: Episode Three. Valve founder Gabe Newell met with those "protesters" to deliver them good news and bad. More »

The Summer of Valve

Owen Good — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:00:00 EDT

Our latest challenge is a no-brainer. One would think its subject, Half-Life 3 is a no-brainer too, but Valve's still making us wait on that. This week, some ~~hippies~~ Canadians got a little tired of the foot-dragging and staged a protest outside Valve HQ, giving us four very exploitable images. We may have to expand the finalist field to 40 for this one. More »

It's Day Two of the Half-Life 2: Episode Three Protest

Owen Good — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:12:50 EDT

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Hey, Hey, Mister Gabe, How Many Games Did You Make Today? The grass-roots protest outside Valve headquarters, demanding the completion of Half-Life 2: Episode Three, is not going away. More »

Valve Likes What It Sees in Nintendo's Wii U

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:30:00 EDT

Could Valve's future games finally come to a Nintendo platform? Thanks to the Wii U, a system that appears at least as powerful as an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, it sounds like that's a very real possibility. More »

Gabe Newell is Bringing Portal 2 to the Classroom

Mike Epstein — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:20:00 EDT

During his talk at the Games for Change festival today, Valve chief Gabe Newell mentioned that the company has begun working with schools to build a curriculum based on Portal 2. Check out our liveblog of the event for more. More »

Liveblogging Whatever Smart Stuff Gabe Newell Has to Say Today

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:40:00 EDT

Valve Software chief Gabe Newell, a man who seems to always be ahead of the curve on everything happening in video games is speaking at New York University today. He's keynoting the Games For Change festival's Games For Learning Institute's keynote address. More »

Valve Turns to 'Singleplayer-Plus,' not 'No More Singleplayer,' Says Chief

Owen Good — Sat, 07 May 2011 17:00:00 EDT

Practically anything said institutionally by Valve, or especially by its co-founder, Gabe Newell, is parsed for any potential meaning to the unannounced, eternally awaited Half-Life 2: Episode 3. So when Newell, in an all-access feature charting the development of Portal 2, said the game was "probably" the last one with any isolated single-player experience, Half-Life fans got really jumpy, given how story-driven that game is. More »

Gabe Newell Has Never Meant Business Like He Means Business Here

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:15:00 EDT

If you're unsure what else your $2 is getting you with the "The Final Hours Of Portal 2" application for the iPad, know it includes pictures like this (via weedpoop). More »

Gabe Newell vs The Israeli Taskmaster

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:00:00 EST

The man on the left in this video is Intel's Shmuel "Mooly" Eden, a company vice president and Israeli beret-wearing champion. On the right? Valve boss Gabe Newell, who it seems doesn't cope well with unexpected questions. More »

Before Half-Life, There Was A Submarine Game

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:30:00 EST

Valve, the developers of series like Half-Life and Team Fortress, were once working on something a little less fantastical: a submarine game. More »

The Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2 Is 'Very Sorry'

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:30:00 EST

In 2003, Axel Gembe got his hands on the game everybody wanted, Valve's Half-Life 2. He hacked into the developer's network and swiped the game's source code—which eventually wound up on the internet. These days, Gembe says he's "very sorry" about that. More »

Watch A High School Class Receive An Audience With The Most Powerful Man In PC Gaming

Luke Plunkett — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:30:00 EST

Tippecanoe Valley High School's sports & entertainment marketing class just started a new program where they chat via webcam with important business folks. To kick things off, these kids got to spend over forty minutes with Valve boss Gabe Newell. More »

Some Stuff You May Not Know About The Masters Of PC Gaming

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:00:00 EST

Whether through its dominance of PC retail via Steam or its own classic franchises like Half-Life and Left 4 Dead, Valve is the king of hardcore PC gaming. Here's some stuff you may not know about your PC's overlords. More »

Forbes Lists Gabe Newell As A Name You Should Know

Owen Good — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:00:00 EST

Being video gamers, you likely are familiar with the Valve co-founder and president. But Forbes, business list-maker extraordinaire, has taken notice and looks to feature Gabe Newell in a December magazine roundup of influential people and concepts. More »

Valve Checking Out Blizzard

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:00:00 EDT

Gabe Newell from Valve gets in a few rounds of DOTA. As seen on HalfLife2.net. Thanks, lamba! More »

Valve Figured Microsoft Would Fix The Xbox Live "Train Wreck"

Mike Fahey — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:30:00 EDT

In an interview with PC Gamer, Valve's Gabe Newell discusses the lack of updates for the Xbox 360 version of Team Fortress 2, saying the team figured Microsoft would fix the "train wreck" that is Xbox Live's downloadable content rules. More »

TF2 Videos Are Valve "Trying To Explore" Making Half-Life Film

Owen Good — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:00:00 EDT

The hilarious, universally acclaimed "Meet the Team" shorts for Team Fortress 2 are more than fan service or game promotion. Valve founder Gabe Newell says they're experiments in movie-making, because the studio would prefer to do a Half-Life movie itself. More »

Valve Bans Modern Warfare Players By Mistake, Apologizes With Free Left 4 Dead 2

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EDT

Were you wrongfully accused of cheating and summarily banned from the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 recently? You weren't the only one. Valve's anti-cheat software goofed and they're offering free copies of Left 4 Dead 2 as an apology. More »

Gabe Newell Wants His Five Dollars

Owen Good — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:30:00 EDT

Valve's founder and chief developer does read his email, and this reference to Better Off Dead shows he takes it seriously. Seen via Reddit. More »

Valve's Gabe Newell Predicts Gaming's Future, Not Talking About "Episode Three"

Stephen Totilo — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:30:25 EDT

After Valve's Gabe Newell was honored as a Pioneer at the GDC Awards, I asked him to predict gaming's future and to offer more Portal 2 teases, a Half-Life 2: Episode 3 update and Pokemon tips. My success rate: 50%. More »

Gabe Newell Is 2010's Game Developers Choice Pioneer

Mike Fahey — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:20:00 EST

Valve's Gabe Newell joins the prestigious company of Ralph Baer, Alex Rigopulos, and Eran Egozy as the 2010 winner of the Game Developers Choice Awards Pioneer Award, honoring breakthrough figures in the game industry. More »

What The Video Game Industry Wants For Christmas

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:30:00 EST

Christmas is a time for giving, yes, but it's also a time for receiving. Which is more important. And while we know what we want for Christmas, we wondered: what do the big names of the video game industry want? More »

Valve Asks "Dude, Where's My Thumb?" Again

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:20:00 EST

Left 4 Dead 2 fans with two or more fingers and access to a camera will be delighted to learn that Valve is issuing a sequel to the Left 4 Dead-themed contest it ran last year, now with improved prizes. More »

Fake Gabe Newell — Show Yourself!

Owen Good — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EST

Some of you might have noticed my "zombiedogs" snafu earlier today. "Gabe Newell" did. Well, the guy masquerading on Twitter as the Valve boss, anyway. That's when I knew for sure there were no zombiedogs in Left 4 Dead 2. More »

Newell, in Australia, on 'Entertainment as a Service'

Owen Good — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:30:00 EDT

In this video, the Valve boss Gabe Newell takes questions at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Sydney and discusses support for Left 4 Dead and why he honored the deal to fly to Australia to see a modder's campaign More »

Valve Ponies Up Cash For Oz Visit, Child's Play Gets Paid

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:40:15 EDT

Valve big cheese Gabe Newell is taking a trip down under to visit a lucky Left 4 Dead modder named Joe W-A, the enterprising fan who raised over $3,000 to get some face time with the man. More »

Yes, Gabe Newell Is Goin' To Australia

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:40:00 EDT

Getting Valve's big boss to fly halfway 'round the world isn't as hard as you might think. All it takes is a few thousand dollars and a handful of e-mails. Yes, Gabe Newell is going to Australia. More »

"Fly Gabe Newell" Raises $3,000

Owen Good — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EDT

A modder's fund drive to call Gabe Newell's joke bluff, and fly the Valve boss plus a producer to Australia to preview his Left 4 Dead campaign, has surpassed $3,000 in less than a week. Pack your bags, Mr. Newell. More »