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“I guess Steam wasn’t enough,” as Gabe Newell allegedly put USD 815 million into a real‑life Subnautica‑style vessel

Gabe Newell, the co-founder and president of Steam, has recently invested $815 million in the RV11000, a massive research vessel tasked with exploring uncharted regions of Earth's deep-sea oceans.

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Gabe Newell reportedly snapped 'What the f*** do I pay you for if that's your opinion?' at Valve lawyer pushing for more content moderation on Steam

So I guess we know where Gabe stands.

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games

Newell also said in 2023 testimony that Steam's 'unwritten rule' against charging lower prices on other storefronts does not exist.

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Gabe Newell asked Valve's top lawyer "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" in heated debate over porn games on Steam, report says

Steam's had a contentious history with adult content

GamesRadar

Valve's Gabe Newell argued gamers "have enormous choice" when grilled over Steam's alleged monopoly on PC gaming – report

"Valve does not have a policy or practice of dictating prices to third-party software developers on other platforms"

GamesRadar

Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney slams Valve over Steam Deck price hikes — mocks founder Gabe Newell over rising costs of megayachts

The Epic Games chief took potshots at Valve CEO Gabe Newell's expensive megayacht collection after sharing the Steam Deck's massive price hikes on X. The post compared the $240 to $300 increase on the Valve hardware to the $50 to $100 jumps on the Switch 2 and PlayStation 5 family.

Tom’s Hardware

Tim Sweeney takes swipes at Valve for Steam Deck price hike, blames it on the 'component parts supply chain for megayachts'

Maybe Sweeney isn't the best person to make this point.

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Tim Sweeney goes after Gabe Newell following Valve's Steam Deck price hike: "Severe disruptions in the component parts supply chain for megayachts"

The billionaires are fighting again

GamesRadar

In the early 1990s, Doom was famously installed on more PCs than Windows itself—but how many was that, actually?

Re-examining an old quote from Valve's Gabe Newell reveals a big gap in what we know about Doom's popularity.

PC Gamer

Half-Life owes its existence to one of the game industry's most formative figures—no, not Gabe Newell, the other guy

Before there was Gabe, there was Ken Williams, and he played a significant role in bringing Half-Life into the world.

PC Gamer

Here are 55 new photos of Gabe Newell's $500 million superyacht for your peasant eyes

Gaze upon my yacht, ye mighty, and despair.

PC Gamer

Elon Musk said Gabe Newell gets 'two thumbs up from me' for the OpenAI board but Jeff Bezos is 'clueless'

Newell was among the "top suggestions for board members" made to Musk.

PC Gamer

Elon Musk considered calling OpenAI 'Freeman' because of the bonkers rationale that the Half-Life protagonist represented 'what we are essentially trying to achieve'

Hey, it's better than "Axon."

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell makes surprise appearance in an ad for the yacht company he bought last year, riding around in his $500 million boat

Are you in the market for a superyacht? Maybe Gabe can help.

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Gabe Newell's first appearance in months is the most Gabe Newell thing imaginable: a yacht ad

And is that Counter-Strike 2 I see?

GamesRadar

Valve's Gabe Newell still plays at least one game of Dota 2 "every day" in his 60s, so hopefully he's past the noob phase he was stuck in even "after 800 hours"

Gabe Newell: semi-retired gamer

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell was an enthusiastic supporter of OpenAI in 2018, donating $20 million and even acting as the sole member of an 'informal advisory board'

$20,008,279, to be precise.

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Metal Gear Solid creator and "real visionary in our field" Hideo Kojima "was talking about how much he wants to go into space," so Valve boss Gabe Newell set him up with a SpaceX tour

GabeN asked Elon Musk himself on Kojima's behalf over 7 years ago, though it doesn't appear to have happened yet

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Thanks to Musk v. Altman lawsuit, it's now public record that Gabe Newell emailed Elon Musk to get his pal Hideo Kojima a tour of SpaceX and OpenAI

The man really wants to go to space.

PC Gamer

'Obviously we love the PC,' Gabe Newell told us 15 years ago, but his focus was on 'a responsibility to gamers and game developers'

Sony boosts PlayStation and Microsoft promotes Xbox, but the Valve boss said Steam takes a slightly different approach.

GamesRadar

Valve chief Gabe Newell saw today's consoles coming a long time ago: "All the consoles are using PC graphics hardware now"

Xbox Project Helix is the latest in a long line of PC-like consoles

GamesRadar

14 years ago, Valve boss Gabe Newell thought Steam would be replaced by something else in "2 or 3 years" because things always "change dramatically"

Digital distribution had its naysayers

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell once said Steam wasn't 'the answer to digital distribution,' proving that even Gabe Newell is wrong about stuff sometimes

Newell said things "change dramatically" every two or three years, but not all things, as it turns out.

PC Gamer

Hideo Kojima went to Valve and like a master troll took a photo of himself with 3 Half-Life gravity guns

And the orb!

GamesRadar

Gamers obsess over Valve boss Gabe Newell telling critically ill Half-Life and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw to "get better" instead of resigning, but the full story is even better

Portal 2's development was especially wild

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