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• Gabe Newell will take Portal 2 over Half-Life, says he looks at the latter as "a series of things I regret"

  Compromises made during the development of the Half-Life games mean Gabe Newell will never remember them as fondly as we do.

• Half-life, Portal and Left 4 Dead fans take heart: Valve has multiple unannounced games in the works

  Half-life 3 probably isn’t among them, but Valve is working on games – including new single-player titles and VR games.

• Gabe Newell is doing a Reddit AMA today - Half Life 3 questions will haunt his dreams for days

  But what we really need to ask him about is Left 4 Dead 3.

• Valve offers VR developers funding to avoid platform-exclusive deals

  Valve wants to help new developers avoid platform-exclusive VR deals in order to acquire financing.

• Indie game Crawl updated with Gabe Newell boss "Gaben"

  Gabe Newell is now available as in-game boss “Gaben” in indie rogue-lite dungeon-crawler Crawl.

• Indie game Crawl adds Gabe Newell as in-game boss

  Gabe Newell has been added as an in-game boss in indie rogue-lite dungeon-crawler Crawl.

• "Zero percent of people get motion sick," says Gabe Newell about Vive

  Valve has apparently broke through and found a solution to the VR motion sickness issue with its headset Vive.

• Gabe Newell gets an email from angry Steam user, sends a classy reply

  Gabe Newell responds to fan emails every once in a while. This time, it was a support ticket, and he resolved it.

• Crowdfunding campaign is asking for $150,000 to get Valve to make Half-Life 3

  Some people are very serious about Half-Life 3. Serious enough to start a crowdfunding campaign asking for $150,000. Their aim? To pester Valve developers enough that they finish and release the game.

• Can you imagine what a Valve E3 conference might look like?

  Valve doesn’t do E3, even when we want it to. One user though is taking matters into their own hands to put an end to all those Half-Life 3 rumours once and for all.

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Linux development happening now, says Newell

  CS:GO is in the works for Linux, Valve founder Gabe Newell has confirmed.

• Steam has "a long way to go" to establish connections between users and creators - Newell

  Steam’s continued push to forge direct connections between content creators and players is something Valve thinks about “a lot”, founder Gabe Newell said during his Reddit AMA today.

• Gabe Newell's Reddit AMA rescheduled for tomorrow

  Valve founder Gabe Newell’s Reddit AMA was derailed today, but you can tune in to watch the hive mind pester the Steam boss tomorrow.

• Gabe Newell's promised Reddit AMA will be held today

  Valve’s co-founder, Gabe Newell, has promised back in January to hold a Reddit AMA, should the donations to the Seattle Children’s Heart Center reach $500,000. It appears the donations have reached the amount, since the man will be holding the AMA today at 1PM PST. Interestingly, today is 3/3. Thanks, Gamespot.

• Valve anti-cheat does not steal your browser history - Newell

  Valve has responded to accusations that its widely-used anti-cheating system, VAC, goes through your browser history and reports back to its master.

• Steam Machines to be "as open as possible," EA's Origin on it would be "fine," says Newell

  Those wondering just how open Steam Machines will be, need wonder no more per this nifty quote from Valve founder Gabe Newell on Reddit: “We’re trying to make it as open as possible. If EA wants to put Origin on it, that would be fine, etc… (trying to pick an example of something that people […]

• Gabe Newell to participate in Reddit AMA providing donations to Seattle Children's Heart Center hit $500,000

  Valve founder Gabe Newell has agreed to participate in a Reddit AMA, providing donations to the Seattle Children’s Heart Center hit $500,000.

• Steam Greenlight "going away" is probably a good thing, but why? - opinion

  Valve’s ‘Steam Dev Days’ event in Seattle has given us some insight into the company’s modus operandi, but after one developer tweeted that Steam Greenlight is “going away,” it got VG247’s Dave Cook feeling relieved.

• Valve has no plans to bring its own Steam Machine to market, at least not yet

  Valve brought 13 Steam machine models to CES 2014, but one was missing: its own. This is because Valve has no plans to release its own version of the machine, at least not yet.