Valve featured on the New York Times.

One of my most favorite companies gets an article from one of my favorite newspapers:

Game Maker Without a Rule Book

THIS is no Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

Every way I look, the scene shifts, the battle unfolds. I have a crazy contraption strapped to my head: a boxy set of goggles that looks like a 22nd-century version of a View-Master. It immerses me in a virtual world. I whirl one way and see zombies preparing to snack on my flesh. I turn another and wonder what fresh hell awaits.

Behold the future of video games. Or at least the future as envisioned by a bunch of gamers, programmers, tinkers and dreamers at the Valve Corporation here. This is the uncorporate company that brought us the Half-Life series, the hugely influential first-person shooter game.

Any thoughts? It's cool to see Valve get some attention from the mainstream press. It validates the notion that gaming is slowly, but steadily, becoming a more accepted medium of entertainment, like the movies.

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Not that Mr. Newell hasnt had opportunities to sell out. Valve has been pursued over the years by Electronic Arts, which would very likely have valued Valve at well over $1 billion had the talks progressed that far, said two people with knowledge of the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were private.

Very very interesting. My favourite parts:

Talking about Steam:

"a huge online distributor, in its case one with more than 40 million active users and that, by some estimates, accounts for about 70 percent of the PC games bought and downloaded from the Web. "

Back to Valve: "On Monday, the company will begin a public test of a new television-friendly interface, Big Picture, for buying Steam games and playing them on computers in the living room."

"Valves exploration of new forms of game hardware comes as the PC, the device on which it has depended for much of its history, is changing in ways that could undermine its business. With a new PC operating system, Windows 8, coming out in October, Microsoft will start its own online marketplace for distributing software, including games. The move could take some of the, well,steamout of Steam"

Gabe is a person who is not above doing any task: "A few years ago, a Valve hire who had worked in special effects in Hollywood balked at wheeling his desk. The news reached Mr. Newell, who promptly picked up the desk himself and carried it to the new location, to the new employees embarrassment."

Gabe loves Windows 8: "Mr. Newells technology vision is one reason that his comments this summer about Windows 8, which he called a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space, caused such an industry stir. "

Gabe Newell is technically Valves chief executive, though the company shuns titles.New York Times

I'm gonna miss the PC if this console really takes off. I can see Valve making a console that is worthy (Their products for the most part are always worthy) and thus you have something that replaces the PC. :(

I do love me some Valve. They've had my money for about 14 years now. Significantly increased sums of money the last few years have been spent towards Valve. Couldn't be any happier. Don't care too much for the news these days, but good for Gaben and company.

One of my most favorite companies

The_Capitalist

Here come the Valve haters.

And to them I say: Fvck you.

Here come the Valve haters.

And to them I say: Fvck you.

OB-47

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One of my most favorite companies

SKaREO

It is somewhat ironic. I don't mind EA, but I'm not a fan of the company either.

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One of my most favorite companies

The_Capitalist

It is somewhat ironic. I don't mind EA, but I'm not a fan of the company either.

[QUOTE="OB-47"]

Here come the Valve haters.

And to them I say: Fvck you.

SKaREO

They'll come just you wait

[QUOTE="SKaREO"][QUOTE="OB-47"]

Here come the Valve haters.

And to them I say: Fvck you.

OB-47

They'll come just you wait

[QUOTE="OB-47"]

[QUOTE="SKaREO"] Who's hating Valve?SKaREO

They'll come just you wait

Valve doesn't make games anymore :x

People still read the poo that NYT spews?Stevo_the_gamer

It's a good paper. What do you read, The Daily Mail?

[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"]People still read the poo that NYT spews?The_Capitalist

It's a good paper. What do you read, The Daily Mail?

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[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"]People still read the poo that NYT spews?Stevo_the_gamer

It's a good paper. What do you read, The Daily Mail?

lol reading.

Valve doesn't make games anymore :x

FireEmblem_Man

Valve is so awesome.

Interesting read. Solid feature.

NYT is a good paper.

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Cheleman

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parkurtommo

see what i did there...?