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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 .
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.
The port was project-led by Gabe Newell and other later founders of Valve. [5] On September 26, 2001, Doom Collector's Edition was released, containing The Ultimate Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom. It was re-released on January 1, 2004 [6] with added preview content for Doom 3.
Gordon Freeman is the silent protagonist of the Half-Life video game series, created by Gabe Newell and designed by Marc Laidlaw of Valve. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His first appearance is in Half-Life (1998). Gordon is depicted as a bespectacled white man from Seattle , with brown hair and a signature goatee , who graduated from MIT with a PhD in ...
In an interview with Edge magazine before the game's release, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell commented, "I think the people who have The Orange Box on the PS3 are going to be happy with their game experience. We've done the PC and 360 versions here and EA has a team doing the PS3 version – and they'll make the PS3 version a good product; EA got ...
Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, the developer and intellectual property rights owner of Steam, described the disadvantages of physical retail distribution for smaller game developers as such: The worst days [for game development] were the cartridge days for the NES.
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.