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Gaming billionaire Gabe Newell is launching a Half Life-inspired titanium gnome into space, and you can watch its journey to 311 miles above Earth via livestream
The gnome is a tribute to an item from Valve's "Half-Life" series, and Newell will donate a dollar …
Grace Dean
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Meet Gabe Newell, the richest man in the video game business
Notably, Newell just showed up at No. 134 on 2016's Forbes 400 list, sandwiched between oil and gas…
Ben Gilbert
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Gabe Newell's sage advice to businesses in 2013 still rings true today: 'Nobody is smarter than the internet'
You have to stop thinking that you're in charge and start thinking that you're having a dance. We u…
Dave Smith,Dave Smith
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Rocket Lab is about to recover a used rocket booster for the first time. Watch the company launch its SpaceX-inspired mission live online.
The 'Return to Sender' mission is a bid to recover expensive aerospace hardware, a move that could …
Dave Mosher
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Valve’s Steam Deck handheld gaming device promises to bring the power of consoles in your hands
Valve, the US-based game developer company and the maker of Steam has announced its own dedicated h…
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10 things in tech you need to know today
Twitter and Facebook both had to label Trump posts, polling places had some technical hiccups, and …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The man behind the new 'Star Wars' movies is getting into video games
"I'm a massive games fan, and increasingly envious of the amazing tools developers get to work with…
Ben Gilbert
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The new and improved Steam Chat is here to take on Discord - here's how the two apps compare
With apps like Discord quickly taking over and offering people an easy way to talk to and message o…
Sean Wolfe
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Valve CEO: 'We're comfortable with the idea that VR will turn out to be a complete failure'
"Vive is the most expensive device on the market. It's barely capable of doing a marginally adequat…
Ben Gilbert
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The most popular CEO in the gaming industry is also extremely accessible over email
After expressing his gratitude over email to Newell, the Steam user then asked if he could post the…
Dave Smith
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Valve CEO: 'Pissing off the Internet costs you a million bucks in just a couple of days'
Newell publicly acknowledged that Valve's decision had "pissed off the internet." He said he person…
Dave Smith
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The cult of Valve: Why Valve's new virtual reality headset could be the first real threat to the Oculus Rift
There's still no doubt that Oculus is still leading the charge for virtual reality. Facebook's $2 b…
Steven Tweedie
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One of the world's biggest video game services, Steam, has stopped accepting bitcoin because it's so volatile
He wrote: "When checking out on Steam, a customer will transfer x amount of Bitcoin for the cost of…
Shona Ghosh
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Apple and Valve, which run two of the world's biggest stores for buying video games, are feuding with each other - and iPhone users could end up losing out
But on Thursday, it became apparent that Apple doesn't want Steam Link on iPhones and iPads, accord…
Kif Leswing
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J.J. Abrams promises movies for 'Portal' and 'Half-Life' are still happening
Back in 2013, at DICE - an annual conference for video game developers - Valve co-founder Gabe Newe…
Tim Mulkerin
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Here's The Quality That Top Game Developer Valve Looks For In Employees
The increasingly famous Valve handbook for new employees says that since Valve has a non-…
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The world's largest gaming service, Steam, is giving up on regulation and turning over 200 million users into guinea pigs
An internal investigation at Valve found that the game's developer had a history of creating cheap …
Ben Gilbert
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Facebook is forcing virtual reality fans to make a really tough decision
Luckey has also done an incredible job building out the Oculus team to be the best in the world, re…
Steven Tweedie
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Thousands of angry customers just forced two giant gaming companies to kill their profitable new venture
To help you understand why we thought this was a good idea, our main goals were to allow mod makers…
Dave Smith
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There's one glaring problem with Oculus Rift's plan to conquer virtual reality
Of course, this is not what Oculus wants, either. Most virtual reality companies say their goal is …