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Valve’s dominance of the PC scene shows no signs of slowing down, with founder Gabe Newell revealing tremendous growth in the last year.

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Valve’s living-room friendly hardware could be in tester’s hands in just a few months.

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Valve founder Gabe Newell is to receive a BAFTA fellowship at its British Academy Games Awards ceremony on March 5th.

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Gabe Newell & J.J. Abrams gave a keynote discussion at DICE Summit 2013 called “Storytelling Across Platforms: Who Benefits Most, The Audience or the Player?” The entire video has now been released online, discussing the art of spinning a good yarn.

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Valve boss Gabe Newell gave a talk at DICE 2013 this week, and he said all sorts of lovely things like: the Steambox price point will be a much lower cost than many living-room devices; he talked about how he is skeptical of cloud gaming; how his vision for video games is a bit on the PC-fans side; and how the console transition is bad for gaming as a whole. That’s the take away, at any rate. You can watch his speech below.

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Gabe Newell and JJ Abrams weren’t just idly shooting the breeze; initial steps have been taken to produce Portal and Half-life films.

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Valve founder Gabe Newell recently gave an hour-long lecture at the University of Texas. You can watch it all here – and I recommend that you do as it’s very interesting. At the 42-minute mark Newell discusses his vision for a Steam marketplace free from the bottleneck of publisher requests, and why he would like to take Valve out of that equation altogether, allowing content creators to publish freely in an open market. Think of a big open-invite market stall with no middleman.

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Valve founder Gabe Newell has given an hour-long lecture about his company’s creation, the state of the games industry and insight into its various games and tools. Newell discussed all of this and more at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas yesterday, and it’s a very interesting chat that touches on the issue of productivity in the PC market and the shipping of the original Half-Life.

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Valve co-founder Gabe Newell has said Steambox and its brethren will race to beat Apple to the living room, while traditional consoles will be left eating dust.

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Star Wars VII director J.J. Abrams will deliver this year’s DICE – Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain – Summit keynote alongside Valve founder Gabe Newell. The lecture, titled “Storytelling Across Platforms: Who Benefits Most, the Audience or the Player?” will take place on February 6th.

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Valve’s Gabe Newell feels traditional production models used by larger game makers will not be a viable business plan for much longer.

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Valve founder Gabe Newell officially announced that the company’s PC console – dubbed internally at the studio as ‘Bigfoot’, and its handheld counterpart ‘Littlefoot’ – at CES. However, speculation that it will be formally announced at GDC is wide of the mark, a Valve engineer has confirmed.

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Gabe Newell has confirmed Bigfoot, a Valve-made, Linux-based, console-like Steam box. Pay attention, says Patrick Garratt: the TV games market is about to be shaken to its “core”.

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Valve boss Gabe Newell has confirmed that an internally-developed SteamBox is inbound, as distinct from Xi3′s Valve-funded effort, giving scant details of its biometric controller and open nature.

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DotA 2 maybe heading to PC and Mac, but developer Valve is also toying with the idea of a tablet version. Gabe Newell has revealed that his team is looking into it, but that so far tests haven’t been all that successful. Get his quotes below.

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Valve’s Gabe Newell is of the opinion that PC companies will release living room friendly packages next year which will ultimately compete with next-gen consoles.

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The Academy of Interactive Arts and Science has announced Gabe Newell will be the 17th inductee into the AIAS Hall of Fame. Valve’s co-founder and president will also headline the D.I.C.E. 2013 Summit stage as Thursday conference keynote speaker.

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Gabe Newell has spoken about the initial failings of Steam Greenlight and what Valve can do to improve its system. The industry icon chatted with a bunch of visitors from 4chan’s /v/ in an oddly casual style.

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Valve boss Gabe Newell has reportedly confirmed that the developer is working on a new version of its lauded Source engine.

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Valve founder Gabe Newell will be named Champion Honouree at the Entertainment Software Association’s annual Nite to Unite.

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