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Gabe Logan Newell (born November 3, 1962), also known by his nickname Gaben, is an American video game developer and businessman. He is the president and co-founder of the video game company Valve Corporation .
The Heart of Racing (also known as Heart of Racing Team, or simply Heart of Racing) is an American auto racing team founded by British racing driver Ian James, [1] American businessman Gabe Newell, [2] and American developer Yahn Bernier.
Valve is an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1996 by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. The company is based in Bellevue, Washington. [1] Valve's first game was Half-Life, a first-person shooter released in 1998. [2] It sold over nine million retail copies.
Valve was founded in 1996 by the former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. Their debut game, the first-person shooter (FPS) Half-Life (1998), was a critical and commercial success and had a lasting influence on the FPS genre.
Mike Harrington (born 1964) is an American programmer and businessman. With Gabe Newell, he is the co-founder of the video game company Valve.After the success of the first Valve product, Half-Life (1998), Harrington left Valve in 2000.
Newell recalled: "The fact that you could go from one end of the game to the other was a really big thing for us. Then we knew it just had to get better – but it was all there." [ 6 ] After several months of bug fixes and playtesting , Half-Life 2 was completed on October 13, 2004.
In March 2011, one month before the game's release, Valve president Gabe Newell called Portal 2 "the best game we've ever done". [44] After Portal 2 ' s release, Geoff Keighley wrote that according to Newell, "Portal 2 will probably be Valve's last game with an isolated single-player experience". [11]
Gabe Newell cited these issues when criticizing the console during the release of The Orange Box. [16] Left 4 Dead branch. The Left 4 Dead branch is an overhaul of ...