William and Glenn are pleased to interview Gabe Newell and Kutta from Valve Software.
Hello fellow ModDB fans, we are so excited to be posting our Gabe Newell and Kutta interview that we recorded this week.
Topics Discussed (but not limited to)
- No new Episode Three information.
- Steam as a social platform.
- Steam for mobile devices.
- Source SDK and Portal 2 Authoring Tools
- DirectX 9, 10, 11
- Will GoldSource be released under GPL
- Portal 2 ARG
- Valve’s first steps into a non-fps genre.
- Ideas and backstory behind the Crowbar.
- What Gabe and Kutta do in their free time (besides knives).
Gabe Newell Interview
- William is joined by Glenn.
- William McMahon
Owner/Operator of Podcast17.
- Glenn (aka. HecticGlenn) — Host
Writer at Halflife2.net.
- Interview is with Gabe and Kutta.
- Gabe Newell
Founder/Managing Director of Valve Software.
- Kutta Srinivasan
Software Developer at Valve Software.
Full show notes and links can be found on our website.
Podcast 17
(Special thanks to the Overgrowth team and Iiro Jäppinen for providing these nice icons!)
Enjoyed every minute of it. I'm sure it was a blast for both you guys. :D
i didnt listened to it, but i bet william jizzed in his pants
So is this Valve's E3 showing? ;p
"Nope,it's just me, Gabe Newell"
I see what you did there.
This is one of the best things about Valve, Gabe has no problem sitting down and interacting with steams community. How often do you see Bobby Kotick do anything similar?
I wonder if Bobby Kotick even knows what a community is, besides his definition of "crowd to get money from".
That is true but also a really dumb thing to say. If you can find another head of a publishing company that really sits down and interacts with the community, then compare him to Kotick. But Gabe Newell is a developer, I am not being an idiot I love Gabe Newell and his approach to gaming and the industry. Newell is from a developer, he interacts with the community to help create better games and a better community (plus he is cool), Kotick's job is business, to get the most money out of a product. And well, he is damn good at it.
He is damn good at it indeed, I'm kind of jealous D: Although I wouldn't want to trade my love for games for any amount of money.
Total ********
Awesome.
Good interview :D
thanks for doing it but i thought it was a pretty crummy interview.
Great interview, but to be honest, I dont give a flying *beep* about anything else but the next installment in the Half-Life series! I don't care one bit about Linux versions or Steam for mobile devices or anything else!
tl;dr: I ONLY care about the next installment in the Half-Life series, and nothing else!
yeah
Great interview
tl;dl. Can we please get a transcript of this?
There are transcripts available on their website.
That was a nice tune in the end!
"Now, I know everyone has a lot of hats at Valve" Did he just integrate a TF2 reference into that question?
No, it's a pretty common term Valve has used even before TF2.
Lol @ Gabe's ringtone ^____^
Quite a bit of interesting information. I wonder...
You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know... NO I DONT KNOW CUZ U DIDNT SAID IT YET... good interview though
Nothing 'bout EP3? Next!
So damn true... DX I am getting SO fed up with the lack of EP3 news, ******* seriously... >_< The least, the VERY LEAST they can do is at least provide a HINT of news of EP3 if not ANY news tidbit at all... >>
took 10 year of secret production on HL2(give or take lol) to announce that!
i would have liked to hear gabe's view on EA's steam ripp off, 'Origin'.
I got as far as "No new Episode Three information." :/
(buried)
gabe newell's like a retarded ball of feces
You must think pretty highly of retarded balls of feces.
so, its delayed once again...not surprised
Great one =).
(buried)
wow what a fatso lol, he needs to cut down on the burgers
thanks for this!
JON CARMACK!! *jizzes and dies*
I love how gabe makes jokes about how he blatantly dodges the half life questions
Any word on Half-Life 3 ? Anyone?
Ask when prop array error will be fixed.
its cool to see ol' gabe on here
Gabe Newell! I love you forever!
Great podcast thx !
gabe gets lonely at night and plays with his valve toys!
I cant say it was interesting interview, since Gabe actually dodged every single question about next Half-life installment, exactly as he said.
I didn't have time to listen to the whole thing... I have a question to who did. Did they ask about the distribution of mods on Steam, did they mention at all what Desura is doing and if they plan to add it to Steam as well? Would have been nice to hear their thoughts on Desura :)
Gabes really ******* me off, as a Valve fan (verging on ex fan) his dodging the episode 3 questions is getting old, just f'ing answer you fat. ughh nvm.
@kutta: 'kutta' is 'dog' right? and if you are an indian, you know that. Unless its a short form for something big like kutthrapali or something. Anyways, I so wanna work at Valve!
@gn: please oh please hire me, my next mod is full of sheer awesomeness!!!
@MahtXL it's you calling gabe fat that is delaying ep 3
well i look all over the web and i think ep 3 is real and comeing