Valve’s Gabe Newell to receive British gaming award for “exceptional contribution”

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Gabe Newell is already well-known as a video game legend, and now he’s being honored across the pond. The Valve CEO will be awarded with the British Academy of Film and Television’s fellowship next month. The award is given annually to an individual for their contributions to the video game industry. Former winners include legends… Read More…

Valve launches Steam for Linux with big sale

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After nearly two months in beta mode, Valve has released Steam for Linux. You can get the Steam client from the Ubuntu Software Center.  Currently there are more than 50 Linux games on Steam and to celebrate the release, Valve is putting on a big week-long sale with games discounted by up to 75 percent.  Valve… Read More…

Report: Valve letting go of several employees as part of “great cleansing”

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Valve hardware engineer Jeri Ellsworth made news this week when she tweeted that she had been fired, and now it looks like that was just the beginning of big changes happening at the Bellevue-based video game company. Gamasutra is confirming that potentially up to 25 people have been let go from the Valve Android and hardware departments…. Read More…

Valve hires Xbox 360 controller veteran for hardware push

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It’s not uncommon for video game company Valve to hire Microsoft veterans. Co-founder Gabe Newell himself came from Microsoft. But one of these recent hires seems to underscore how serious Valve is getting about hardware design as it develops its new “Steam Box” game machine. Valve has hired Louis Barinaga, who previously worked as director of… Read More…

Watch J.J. Abrams and Gabe Newell talk about making games and movies together

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We wrote last week about director J.J. Abrams and Valve co-founder Gabe Newell giving the keynote at the DICE 2013 Summit and discussing making games and movies together. Now, for our own personal excitement, that entire talk is up online and you can watch it above. And there’s a lot more the two industry kingpins discuss, including an… Read More…

Check out Gabe Newell’s insane knife collection

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Apparently, Gabe Newell likes to collect knives. Sam Hulick, an award-winning composer for video games, Tweeted out this photo a few days ago from a time when he visited Newell’s office. I guess the Valve co-founder not only loves video games, but knives, too. Be sure to check out what Newell said at last week’s DICE 2013… Read More…

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell: Linux is a “get-out-of-jail free pass for our industry”

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Valve co-founder Gabe Newell just gave a 30-minute keynote at the DICE 2013 Summit in Las Vegas. He didn’t make any huge product or game announcements — sorry, Half-Life 3 fans — and rather focused on how Valve is re-thinking what games are and how you sell them. You can watch the speech in full above… Read More…

Gabe Newell, J.J. Abrams discussing plans for ‘Half-Life’ and ‘Portal’ movie

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Get excited, people: Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams have plans to work together both on a movie and game. The pair just revealed on stage at the DICE 2013 Summit that there are certainly plans in the works. Newell, the Valve co-founder, said that he wants to do a ‘Half-Life’ or ‘Portal’ movie with Abrams, who is… Read More…

Valve invests in hardware maker Xi3, partners on ‘Steam Box’

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We wrote yesterday that Valve’s “Steam Box,” a PC designed to connect to your TV and take advantage of the Steam’s Big Picture mode, would run on Linux and debut this year. Now, we have some more details about a device that will make it happen. At the Consumer Electronics Show, hardware manufacturer Xi3 and Valve announced a “development… Read More…

Valve unveiling Steam Box this year, will run on Linux

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It looks like the Steam Box is coming and will run on Linux. German IT site Golem is reporting that Valve engineer Ben Krasnow spoke at a EHSM conference a few weeks ago and confirmed that Valve’s “Steam Box,” a PC designed to connect to your TV and take advantage of the Steam’s Big Picture mode, will debut… Read More…