Gabe Newell
Acting
Biography
Gabe Logan Newell (born November 3, 1962), also known by his nickname Gaben, is the co-founder and current managing director of the independent game development company Valve Software. Newell was educated at Davis Senior High School and attended Harvard University in the early 1980s before dropping out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first iterations of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Together with Mike Harrington, he left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve. He has a net worth of approximately US $5 billion. He is married to Lisa Newell and has two sons.
Known For
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the release of Half-Life 2, we've gotten members of the HL2 team back to talk about the game's development, how we almost ran out of money, what it was like when we were hacked, what happened when we were sued by our publisher, the birthplace of Steam, and much more.
Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary
To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the release of Half-Life we reunited the original development team to share their memories of creating Valve's first game.