Facts about Gabe Newell

[Bony]

Gabe Newell:
- Dropped out of Harvard and spent thirteen years working for Microsoft
- Funded Valve in 1996 and used his money to develop first Valve game 'Half-life' in 1998.
- Gabe said that developing processes for the console in general was 'a waste of everybody's time' and 'a disaster on many levels'
- In 2010 Portal 2 was announced on PS3 to be 'the best version for any console.'
- Newell has criticized the Xbox live service, referring to it as 'a train wreck'
- He referred to windows 8 as a 'catastrophe'
- In December 2010, Forbes named Newell as 'A Name You Should Know'
- He is ranked as 854th out of 1,226 global billionaires
- Newell described himself as a 'producer on the first three releases of Windows'
- His favourite games are Super Mario 64, Doom, Star Trek. Doom convinced him that video games were the future of entertainment, and Super Mario 64 convinced him that video games were art.
- He suffered from Fuchs dystrophy, a congenital disease which affects the cornea, but was cured by two cornea transplants in 2006 and 2007

 

[racofer]

You forgot the mention his weight. And that he's fat.

 

[Konjad]

 

[Dexter]

- Newell has described himself as "producer on the first three releases of Windows".
- He has an extensive knife collection

 

[Malik]

Fat fuck

 

[Morgoth]

Fat fuck

Fucking die newfag!

 

[Deleted member 7219]

You may call him fat, but you probably wouldn't want to take him on in a knife fight.

 

[ohWOW]

newb knife collection

 

[Whisky]

-Gabe Newell owns you and can take your money whenever he wants. (If you deny this, just wait until the next Steam Sale)

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Gabe Newell did all the mocap for this scene in Resident Evil 4:

 

[Harold]

-Gabe Newell owns you and can take your money whenever he wants. (If you deny this, just wait until the next Steam Sale)

I don't use steam. Checkmate.

 

[Whisky]

No one escapes Gabe Newell's gaze for long.

He is coming for you:

 

[racofer]

Gabe Newell did all the mocap for this scene in Resident Evil 4:

I can see how he's behind that scene. Just notice how much of this:



is featured on that.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I wonder if "all the mocap" includes Ada's sexy walk too.

 

[Kane]

- Gabe said that developing processes for the console in general was 'a waste of everybody's time' and 'a disaster on many levels'

It is and he is right; I have been saying that for a long time: Modern consoles only exist because their creators heavily subsidised the market, especially in the beginning and especially Microsoft. In fact Microsoft paved the way by re-using the same business tactics they used to push Windows into it's position pack in the 90s. Microsoft bought up complete development studios and had them churning out 'exclusive titles' that were unheard of on consoles (shooters? on a console? you must be joking!) while injecting their usual FUD into the gaming industry/journalism, who gobbled it up like the receptive little bitches they are (obviously launching it with some financial streams). Am I really the only one who back in 2000 opened their prestigious gaming magazine of their choice and went completely "WTF? where did this come from?" about literally "consoles taking over the world"? Followed by a large scale destruction and degradation of standards within the industry. Microsoft at work, ladies and gentlemen. We call it destruction and mayhem, for them it is just business as usual.

 

[jagged-jimmy]

-Gabe Newell owns you and can take your money whenever he wants. (If you deny this, just wait until the next Steam Sale)

I don't use steam. Checkmate.

Better luck next time, mate.

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

He seems like a pretty nice guy.

 

[Surf Solar]

Is "worshipping" him the same people do "ironically" like some people do with this My Little Pony shit? Else I can't understand the cult of personality for this guy.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

No, people are completely serious about worshipping him as a god. The Gabe Krishna movement is taking the world by storm.

 

[Kane]

No, people are completely serious about worshipping him as a god. The Gabe Krishna movement is taking the world by storm.

Better him than Ballmer or Jobs.

 

[Xavier0889]

Super Mario 64 convinced him that video games were art.

I wonder why so many people consider this game as a work of art.
It was ugly (both gameplay and artistic-wise) even on day 1.
At least Ocarina of Time was funnier.

 

[Volourn]

"(If you deny this, just wait until the next Steam Sale)"

The only shit I wait for is a Codex post. I have never used this thing you call 'Steam Sale'... is this where they sell steam in plastic bags? I heard of those... I'll pass.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I wonder if "all the mocap" includes Ada's sexy walk too.

Yeah, he's got the hips.

 

[Metro]

He seems like a pretty nice guy.

If you had five or so billion dollars you'd be smiling all the time, too.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

He seems like a pretty nice guy.

If you had five or so billion dollars you'd be smiling all the time, too.

But would you be so willing to talk to and indeed make physical contact with the unwashed masses? Gaben's pretty bro for being a billionaire.

 

[Menckenstein]

I'm shocked there's no food ordering service built into steam.

/pizza !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!