Yes, Gabe Newell Is Goin’ To Australia

Getting Valve’s big boss to fly halfway ’round the world isn’t as hard as you might think. All it takes it a few thousand dollars and a handful of e-mails. Yes, Gabe Newell is going to Australia.

Newell has apparently ended his mock boycott of a Left 4 Dead modder’s campaign, committing along with Valve’s Erik Wolpaw to visit Brisbane, Australia and play some guy’s map. That modder, feeling slighted by not being flown to Valve himself to see if Left 4 Dead 2 was any good or not, racked up $US3,000 in donations to get Newell and Wolpaw to take a 25 hour flight down under.

The Fly Gabe Newell Fund Has Been Successful! [Fly Gabe Newell]

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(8 Comments)
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    Matt Crimmins

    Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 10:41 AM

    Boomer!

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    Tristan Hennessy

    Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 10:54 AM

    oh yeahhhhhhhhh,
    I was one of the tristans that contributed to this great cause. Hopefully the video is good and Joe doesn’t act like a little teenage girl meeting Edward out of twilight…. oh Edward… *day dreams*

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    NewGuy

    Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 11:15 AM

    Haha, Valve are brilliant.

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    Ed Robertson

    Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 12:13 PM

    haha that is awesome. go go gabe.

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    Jay

    Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    Now that is wicked!!

    This is what its all about. We need photographs!!!!

  • [–]

    Trent Kusters

    Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 12:56 PM

    Props.

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    Ben Routledge

    Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 1:54 PM

    Awesome, we all now pay for Valve to market to us.

    • [–]

      RocK_M

      Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 8:28 PM

      BWAHAHAHAHA… you sir are win! ^^

      That was my thoughts exactly xD

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