Gabe Newell Wins Industry Honour.

[Dekstar]

Congratulations are in order for Gabe Newell, who has won the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards 'Pioneer' award.[br]

The pioneer award, which first showed at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards, is for those who are 'responsible for developing a vital technology or game design at a crucial juncture in video game history, paving the way for the many who followed them'.[br]
Steam is this vital technology. Not only has it helped the Valve team bring award-winning games like Half-Life 2, Portal and Team-fortress 2 to our computers, but it has brought us a constantly growing list of non-Valve games, from AAA titles to Indie classics.[br]

Gabe Newell will be getting up on stage in front of over 3,000 of the industry's top developers at GDC 2010, held in San Francisco this March.[br]

Excellent work, Gabe.

 

[BlueWolf72]

Congratz he deserves it.

 

[MJ12]

No, we deserve it! We paid him!

 

[kupocake]

Probably overdue, but the last year has made Steam extremely hard to ignore.

 

[bbson john]

I though Gabe has won the honour for setting up the delaying release date tradition and vapourwares trend.

 

[Paulaner]

I'd like more games from Valve, but Steam is indeed a great service.

 

[Marler]

Go GABE!

 

[Insano]

Congratulations are indeed in order!

 

[Acepilotf14]

More like honor.

 

[kazsymonds]

More like honor.

Feel free to use our language but please don't **** it up any more than you already have.

Thanks.

 

[Ren.182]

Congrats to Gabe! \o/

Also, all the guys who work at Valve need some thanks too. Gabe didn't do it alone!

 

[Danimal]

Party @ Pizza Hut

 

[JUL3]

Well done VALVe, not just Gabe.

 

[Krynn72]

Holy shit, I wonder if I can get time off from work to see it.

 

[Slug Advisor]

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

In b4 haterz. Congrats to Gabe and Valve.

More like honor.

Amen.

EDIT:

I though Gabe has won the honour for setting up the delaying release date tradition and vapourwares trend.

oh .... In b4 OTHER haterz ......

 

[Xaxor]

I though Gabe has won the honour for setting up the delaying release date tradition and vapourwares trend.

Duke Nukem Forever was announced in 1997. Many years later (May 8, 2009), the Forever staff got the boot from 2K games. They are the once and future kings of vapourware, though I still feel bad for them.

Valve isn't the first company to delay games, and will not be the last. They had better get Episode 3 done very soon all the same.

 

[Barnz]

In b4 haterz.

I think Gabe is a pretty cool guy. eh he delays episode three, and doesn't care about half-life fans.




jk