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Steam Hackers May Have Gotten a Backup Database With Encrypted Information

Valve boss Gabe Newell has made a new announcement for users of its Steam digital distribution service and Steam forums, sharing some more information about the hacker attack suffered by the company late last year.Hackers dominated the spotlight in 2011, as after forcing Sony to take down its PlayStation Network, som...

11 February 2012
02:31 GMT

Gabe Newell Attacks Closed Platforms, Names Apple

One of the most important people in the gaming industry has attacked the spread of the closed platforms, like the Apple created ones, predicting that they could soon dominate the entertainment market.Speaking at a panel at the Washington Technology Industry Association organized TechNW conference in Seattle, Gabe New...

13 October 2011
03:07 GMT

Valve Boss Believes PCs Are Still Relevant and Popular

Gabe Newell the boss of Valve Software, the company behind very successful franchises like Half-Life, Left 4 Dead or Portal, not to mention the extremely popular Steam digital distribution service, believes the PC is still quite relevant for the gaming industry, especially since sales are still going strong.As always...

7 October 2011
15:21 GMT

Valve's Gabe Newell Talks About EA's Origin Service

Gabe Newell, the boss of Valve, the studio behind franchises like Portal or Half-Life, not to mention the massively popular Steam Digital distribution service, has shared his thoughts on the new Origin service set up by Electronic Arts.Steam is without a doubt the most popular digital distribution service on the PC p...

30 September 2011
15:51 GMT

Valve Boss Isn't Tired of Half Life 2: Episode 3 Questions, Still Has Nothing to Say

Gabe Newell, the boss of Valve Software, the studio behind massively successful games like Team Fortress 2, Portal or Left 4 Dead, still hasn't grown sick and tired of the constant questions concerning Half Life 2: Episode 3, the next installment in its hugely successful first-person shooter series. Valve has...

26 August 2011
16:51 GMT

Weekend Reading: Make the Jerks Pay More for Video Games

Valve's Gabe Newell is one of the video game personalities that as leader of his studio, as a designer and public speaker, gets a lot of attention from the gaming world.One of the reasons is that his company has managed to constantly launch very good and, at the same time, innovative games, form the first Half L...

4 June 2011
05:51 GMT

Valve's Gabe Newell Believes Jerks Should Pay More for Video Games

Gabe Newell, one of the best-known video game developers in the world, has said that the industry as a whole has a big problem about how it sets price points and has suggested that in the future gamers who are interested and fun to play with might be getting discounts while those who are jerks might have to pay more ...

17 May 2011
19:51 GMT

Single-Player Games Need to Have Social Elements, Multiplayer, Valve Says

Valve, the developer of hit games like Half Life, Left 4 Dead or Portal, has revealed through its CEO, Gabe Newell, that games in the future need to have a new type of single-player experience, as well as strive to deliver some sort of multiplayer one. Portal 2, Valve's most recent game, arrived not just with...

10 May 2011
15:51 GMT

Mac Gamers to Play Portal 2 with Their PS3 Friends

Valve Software’s Gabe Newell and Josh Weier have dished out some of the Steam features shipping with the PlayStation 3 version of Portal 2, the upcoming first person action puzzle game.The project lead on Portal 2 at Valve has confirmed in a statement that Portal 2 will be capable of cross platform play, in tha...

19 January 2011
10:23 GMT

Valve Lifts Modern Warfare 2 Bans

A recent ban wave left many PC Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in dismay, as they maintained that they had done nothing wrong to deserve such a punishment from the Valve Anti-Cheat system. These cases were so widespread that a group was formed on Steam to protest against Valve's policy to never reverse a ban, sta...

27 July 2010
03:33 GMT

Valve's E3 Surprise: Portal 2 on the PlayStation 3

Valve's big surprise was revealed last night during Sony's E3 press conference. Gabe Newell appeared for the first time on Sony's stage to announce that Portal 2 would also be released on the PlayStation 3. It will be the best version of the game one can find on consoles and it will contain a functiona...

16 June 2010
02:57 GMT

Valve's Gabe Newell Is 2010's GDC Pioneer

Not many people can call themselves pioneers inside an industry, and coming up with something new that is actually worth the recognition of your peers is something we all stride towards. This year, the Game Developers Choice Awards has given none other than Valve's Gabe Newell this worthy recognition, and if not...

18 January 2010
04:26 GMT

Left 4 Dead 1 Will Get a Lot of Content, Promises Valve's Gabe Newell

Left 4 Dead was one of last year's biggest games, gaining a huge amount of fans thanks to its online features. However, when Valve, the creator of the game, announced that Left 4 Dead 2 would be released, just one year after its predecessor, these fans weren't very happy. We reported the fact that they had...

12 June 2009
03:19 GMT

Valve's Gabe Newell Doesn't Like DRM

As far as piracy goes, the phenomenon is apparently unavoidable, especially when you consider the software and games alone. Although companies are always complaining about the fact that their profits are low because of people who modify and then release their products for free on the Internet, their measures of preve...

4 December 2008
09:01 GMT

When Everything Else Dies, You'll Still Be Playing Half-Life

In an interview with a well-known gaming site, Valve's Gabe Newell, founder of the company behind Half Life, has confirmed that the popular first-person shooter is anything but your typical video game franchise. According to the man, 'there's a lot of Half-Life left at Valve', so gamers won't...

1 October 2007
05:24 GMT

Valve's Gabe Newell Bans His Team from Playing BioShock

If you thought BioShock was big, then hear this. An interesting piece up on ComputerAndVideoGames.com reveals that Valve's Gabe Newell won't let his stiff (or himself for that matter) get anywhere near Irrational's just launched FPS, BioShock. That is until they finish Half Life 2: Episode 2 and the Or...

28 August 2007
10:58 GMT

Valve to Place More Adverts in Counter-Strike

Nowadays, everything is an advertising platform and video games make one of the best platforms supporting adverts. With sports games it's understandable - you couldn't get the same gameplay experience without them. But what happens when Valve has plans in-game advertising for Counter-Strike? Why would they ...

18 May 2007
03:57 GMT


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