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    Gabe Logan Newell (born November 3, 1962), also known by his nickname Gaben, is an American businessman who is the president and co-founder of the video...
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    and Dota. Valve was founded in 1996 by the former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. Their debut game, the first-person shooter (FPS)...
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  • protagonist of the Half-Life video game series, created by Gabe Newell and designed by Newell and Marc Laidlaw of Valve. His first appearance is in Half-Life...
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  • is an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1996 by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. The company is based in Bellevue, Washington. Valve's...
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    In 1996, Harrington founded Valve with Gabe Newell, another former Microsoft employee. Harrington and Newell funded the development of Valve's debut...
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    team founded by British racing driver Ian James, American businessman Gabe Newell, and American developer Yahn Bernier. Heart of Racing primarily compete...
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  • was cut from the engine before its release. It was mentioned again by Gabe Newell in 2006 as a piece of technology he would like to add to Source to implement...
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    code pointing towards a new "SteamPal" device, and comments made by Gabe Newell related to Valve developing games for consoles. Ars Technica had been...
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  • proceed in May 2022. According to discovery, Valve was ordered to have Gabe Newell submit to a deposition for discussion of Valve's business strategy related...
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  • Development lasted five years and cost US$40 million. Valve's president, Gabe Newell, set his team the goal of redefining the FPS genre. They integrated the...
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  • president Gabe Newell called Portal 2 "the best game we've ever done". After Portal 2's release, Geoff Keighley wrote that according to Newell, "Portal...
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    could be run, and upon the release of Windows 8 in 2012, Valve's CEO Gabe Newell called it "a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space", and discussed...
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  • violent content but was later brought back with a personal apology from Gabe Newell. It was greenlit for a second time on December 29, 2014, and released...
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    final episode planned for release by Christmas 2007. Valve's president, Gabe Newell, said the approach would allow Valve to release products more quickly...
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    Rubikon, which would replace the need for the third-party Havok tools. Gabe Newell, president and founder of Valve, said that the company were prioritizing...
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  • on September 3, 2020. Retrieved December 10, 2008. Newell, Gabe (November 21, 2008). "Gabe Newell Writes for Edge". Edge. Archived from the original on...
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  • Awards. Valve acknowledged that the audience for VR games was limited. Gabe Newell, the Valve president, described Alyx as a long-term investment into new...
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  • led to the rejection of many smaller-scale game development projects. Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, the developer and intellectual property rights...
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    the Valve Corporation games Left 4 Dead 2 and Half-Life: Alyx. In 2020 Gabe Newell partnered with Wētā Workshop and Rocket Lab to launch a real-life garden...
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  • combinations was touted by Valve as a new direction for the game industry. Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, said, "The Black Box and The Orange Box represent...
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    modification by Valve. While the engine served as the basis for GoldSrc, Gabe Newell said that a majority of the code used in the engine was created by Valve...
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  • to be a factor in the decision to ban blockchain games. Valve's CEO Gabe Newell explained in a later interview that while he believed blockchain technology...
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  • revealed by Valve president Gabe Newell during a meeting with gaming press at Valve's headquarters in March 2018. There, Newell stated that it was not originally...
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  • president Gabe Newell Valve, based in Kirkland, Washington, was founded in 1996 by the former Microsoft employees Mike Harrington and Gabe Newell. For its...
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    architecture called Larrabee, which now is part of Intel's GPGPU project. Gabe Newell, managing director of Valve, said that he had "been trying to hire Michael...
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  • changing the structure of the video game industry.[citation needed] Gabe Newell, creator of the digital distribution service Steam, formulated the advantages...
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  • in 2007. Valve's president, Gabe Newell, said he considered the trilogy the equivalent of Half-Life 3. According to Newell, whereas the original Half-Life...
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  • can be placed on any non-metallic surface (wall, ceiling, or floor). Gabe Newell, managing director of Valve, took interest in the team's work and employed...
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    LinuxCon on September 16, 2013, Valve co-founder and executive director Gabe Newell stated that he believed "Linux and open source are the future of gaming"...
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    the release of Valve's game Portal 2, in April 2011. Valve president Gabe Newell envisioned the game as a "Cross Game Design Event" in December 2010,...
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