[MaddaCheeb]

Gabe Newell posted:

Well, if we have to sell hardware we will. We have no reason to believe we're any good at it, it's more we think that we need to continue to have innovation and if the only way to get these kind of projects started is by us going and developing and selling the hardware directly then that's what we'll do. It's definitely not the first thought that crosses our mind; we'd rather hardware people that are good at manufacturing and distributing hardware do that. We think it's important enough that if that's what we end up having to do then that's what we end up having to do.

http://dvice.com/archives/2012/02/valve-we-might.php

Dat beard





Edit: Picture source

http://kotaku.com/5886466/breaking-g...ll-grows-beard

[FPSMango]

Woah! Is that... Gabe?

[MaddaCheeb]

FPSMango posted:

Woah! Is that... Gabe?

No, it's my grandpa.

[Uncle Bourbon]

Newell even hints at Valve having prototypes of wearable computers featuring high resolution displays.

Interesting.

[salty peanut v2]

holy SHIT

[Second-gear-of-mgear]

What's he mean by hardware? His Knives?

[Glorbo]

MaddaCheeb posted:

Yes

What are you talking about, clearly this is santa

[XanaToast.]

I like that look

[YouWithTheFace.]

that rugged bear beard.

[ewitwins]

He's starting to rock the Santa beard

Seriously, he's got the glasses and everything.

As to the article, I'm rather confused as to what he's saying.

[assassin_Raptor]

Second-gear-of-mgear posted:

What's he mean by hardware? His Knives?

Seems like they might head into the graphics card, processor market. If they have too.

[CanadianBill]

Gabe is Santa, and he's bringing Episode 3 for Christmas!

[NoDachi]

I've always wondered if hugely popular - metaversal games of the future would require their own specific hardware or operating systems.

[Ganerumo]

Oh man he looks so old now.

[Uncle Bourbon]

gabe looks old

[1337KiLLeR]

I'll totally buy one of their products!

[FPSMango]

Where did you get the picture OP?

It's not from the article as far as I can see.

Oh wait I found it. Why not just link to the original article, it puts what he says into much bigger context.

Link to whole interview:
http://penny-arcade.com/report/edito...nd-whether-w/1

[Awesomecaek]

ewitwins posted:

He's starting to rock the Santa beard

Seriously, he's got the glasses and everything.

As to the article, I'm rather confused as to what he's saying.

That present hardware (I presume that he means mainly consoles) suck, and that if Valve has to create their own hardware to be happy with it's capabilities, they are going to do it.

That's pretty damn good if you ask me.

If Valve brought in their own console running Steam centered OS, I would consider getting it.

[MaddaCheeb]

FPSMango posted:

Where did you get the picture OP?

It's not from the article as far as I can see.

Search 'Gabe Newell Beard' in google. Tons of articles.

http://kotaku.com/5886466/breaking-g...ll-grows-beard

[markg06]

ewitwins posted:

He's starting to rock the Santa beard

Seriously, he's got the glasses and everything.

As to the article, I'm rather confused as to what he's saying.

How can you be confused, they're thinking of selling computers.

[Jasun]

Awesomecaek posted:

That present hardware (I presume that he means mainly consoles) suck, and that if Valve has to create their own hardware to be happy with it's capabilities, they are going to do it.

That's pretty damn good if you ask me.

If Valve brought in their own console running Steam centered OS, I would consider getting it.

What I like about Valve games is that they don't need a $1000 computer to run smoothly.

A Steam games console would be good though.

[Aerkhan]

Gabe's been playing Skyrim.

Edited:

Look in the top left corner.

[Recco]

Holy fucking shit. Still can't believe it's Gabe.

[DDSNv2]

Gabe is going to turn into Santa.

[T-Sonar.0]

Aerkhan posted:

Gabe's been playing Skyrim.

Edited:

Look in the top left corner.

Uh? That's all Valve related things. They've had that sign for years.

And I'm pretty sure that's Black Mesa.

[Shoar]

Aerkhan posted:

Gabe's been playing Skyrim.

Edited:

Look in the top left corner.

Everything on that is valve related, isn't skyrim.

Fucking ninjas

[SwissArmyKnife]

FPSMango posted:

Where did you get the picture OP?

It's not from the article as far as I can see.

Oh wait I found it. Why not just link to the original article, it puts what he says into much bigger context.

Link to whole interview:
http://penny-arcade.com/report/edito...nd-whether-w/1

Everyone should read the original article on PA report, it's a good interview and a good look at how Valve's doing currently.

Plus I hate blogs that exist to repost news articles written by other sites for the sole purpose of increasing page views.

I'm looking at you Kotaku.

[Atlascore]

T-Sonar.0 posted:

Uh? That's all Valve related things. They've had that sign for years.

And I'm pretty sure that's Black Mesa.

Shoar posted:

Everything on that is valve related, isn't skyrim.

Fucking ninjas

He's not talking about Skyrim.

There's a Half-Life 3 logo in the top left corner.

[Bound]

Am I the only one who thinks that beard is disgusting? It's so patchy and weak looking.

[mac338]

Newell even hints at Valve having prototypes of wearable computers featuring high resolution displays.

It's probably a PC-hat.

[Clovernoodle]

I love the new look- makes him look more wise and cool, like Liam Neeson except twice as hefty.

[T-Sonar.0]

Oh my

[mac338]

Bound posted:

Am I the only one who thinks that beard is disgusting? It's so patchy and weak looking.

Rated agree because yes you are.
It suits him awesomely.

[Wormy]

Atlascore posted:

He's not talking about Skyrim morons.

There's a Half-Life 3 logo in the top left corner.

And it is very poorly photoshopped.

[Doom14]

Bound posted:

Am I the only one who thinks that beard is disgusting? It's so patchy and weak looking.

He is on his way to something glorious. If he joins the rank of ZZ Top'esq beards, it will be amazing.

[Last or First]

T-Sonar.0 posted:

Uh? That's all Valve related things. They've had that sign for years.

And I'm pretty sure that's Black Mesa.

Shoar posted:

Everything on that is valve related, isn't skyrim.

Fucking ninjas

What are you two talking about
He's talking about the Half Life 3 logo.

It's shopped, anyway, though.
1. Its blurriness is off.
2. Other pictures clearly show it being a different logo.
3. Parts of it are floating in mid-air. All of the other ones have some small part connecting them back to the wall so they don't fall out. This one doesn't.

[PassTheBong]

that half life 3 symbol is totally photoshopped

[AJisAwesome15]

He looks like Teddy Roosevelt

[Atlascore]

Wormy posted:

And it is very poorly photoshopped.

No, it's the full photo, unless they somehow invented CSI level uncropping software.

The half-life 3 logo is probably shopped though.

[mac338]

Seriously if Gabe keeps up being so awesome I'm going to develop a fetish for fat people