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Gabe Newell

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Gabe Newell in all its glory

Gabe Newell is the co-founder of Valve Corporation, the videogame company which created popular videogames, such as Half-Life, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead.

History

Gabe Newell was borned in 1962, and he was the genius of Harvard University, creating a huge increase of teacher's unemployement. Than, with his gigantic brain, he went to Microsoft, but he was fired by Bill Gates, because he was only hacking his high-tech computers.

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Gabe Newell's great great grandpa

Valve Corporation

Before Gabe join to the future videogame company, Valve was a plumbing syndicate, founded by two famous plumbers, but the syndicate had a bankrupt, because Gabe wasted all the money earned in food. So, he decided to turn the old plumbing corporation into a merry land (until the latest years).

List of videogames made by Valve

  • Half-Life (1998)
  • Half-Life: Opposing Force (1999)
  • Counter-Strike (1999)
  • Day of Defeat (1999)
  • Team Fortress Classic (1999)
  • Ricochet (2000)
  • Half-Life: Blue Shift (2001)
  • Half-Life: Decay (2001)
  • Half Life 2 (2004)
  • Half Life 2: Deathmatch (2004)
  • Counter-Strike: Source (2005)
  • Day of defeat: Source (2005)
  • Garry's Mod (not exactly made, but available on Steam) (2005)
  • Half Life 2: Episode 1 (2006)
  • The Orange Box (2007)
    1. Half Life 2: Episode 2
    2. Portal
    3. Team Fortress 2

Likes

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What a wonderful afternoon

Dislikes

  • Other FPS games;

Liked by

  • Half-Life Fans;
  • His Wife;

Disliked by

  • Other videogame companies;
  • Fans who want to play Haf-Life 2: Episode 3;

Trivia

  • He has a wife and two diabetic children;
  • He's also playable in Left 4 Dead
  • He caused at least three quarters of every single earthquake from 1963 to date;