Gabe Newell
Born	November 3, 1962 (1962-11-03) (age 45)
Occupation	Managing director, Co-founder of Valve Corporation

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Work

After dropping out of Harvard University^[1] Newell spent thirteen years working for Microsoft Corporation, ultimately becoming a "Microsoft Millionaire." Newell has described himself as "producer on the first three releases of Windows".^[2] Inspired by Michael Abrash, who left Microsoft to work on the Quake game at id Software, Newell and another Microsoft employee Mike Harrington left Microsoft to found Valve in 1996.^[2] He and Harrington used their money to fund Valve through the development of Half-Life. Harvard redirects here. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Michael Abrash is a highly regarded technical writer, and one of the top optimization and 80x86 assembly language programmers, a reputation cemented by his 1990 book Unfortunately, the original 8086 processor, the focus of the book, was several generations behind the state of the art by the time the book... This article is about the original video game. ... id Software (IPA: officially, though originally ) is an American computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ... Mike Harrington was the co-founder and programmer of the computer game development company, Valve Software. ...

During production on Half-Life 2, he spent several months focusing on the Steam project.^[3] Half-Life 2 (commonly abbreviated to HL2) is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game that is the sequel to Half-Life. ... Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. ...

Gabe is notorious for expressing his displeasure for the Playstation 3 on numerous occasions, having stated that it is "a waste of everybody's time"^[4] and "A disaster on many levels" and that "I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it"^[5]. Because Valve did not want to handle the port of the The Orange Box from the Xbox 360/PC version to the Playstation 3 version, the project was given to EA, resulting in a sub-par Playstation 3 experience according to several previews.^[6] Orange Box redirects here. ...

Personal life

Gabe is married to Lisa Newell and has two sons. The Newell family lives on the Long Beach Peninsula.^[7] The Long Beach Peninsula is an arm of land in western Washington state. ...

References

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External links

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Gabe Newell

• Gabe Newell at the Valve Developer Community wiki

Interviews:

• Discussing Valve at Rock, Paper, Shotgun
• Interview from August 2007 at Eurogamer
• The story of the development of Half-Life 2 at Gamespot
• Gabe Newell on Half-Life 2 at HL2 Central