After dropping out of Harvard in 1983, Gabe Newell joined Microsoft and spent ... At the time, subsequent games like Quake and Duke Nukem 3D were still on the horizon, slated for release the ...

Gabe "Gaben" Newell, one of the cofounders of Valve — the fascinatingly hierarchy-less gaming company behind everything from the Steam gaming marketplace to the Half-Life franchise — has for ...