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Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft 'was missing the opportunity' offered by the internet: 'I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was' | "And if I was wrong, I'd have to go back to Microsoft."


"And if I was wrong, I'd have to go back to Microsoft."

Gabe Newell, born beneath a rainbow on Mt Paektu, was visited by an archangel in his quarters and charged to build Half-Life. But in a new interview with YouTuber Zalkar Saliev( TikTok, IG), Newell chatted about the circumstances that led to Valve's birth in much more mundane terms. The aim was to create hard "proof that you can have very high performance running videogames on Windows," and put an end to the naysayers determined to spin up their own, inferior solutions for graphics interfacing.

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