Valve’s Gabe Newell joins the prestigious company of Ralph Baer, Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy as the 2010 winner of the Game Developers Choice Awards Pioneer Award, honouring breakthrough figures in the game industry.
Ralph Baer, winner of the 2008 Pioneer award, is widely considered to be the father of video games. Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy founded Harmonix, scoring them the 2009 Pioneer. What did Gabe Newell do to earn the accolade in 2010? Gabe scores the award for not only having a hand in creating some of the most influential video games of all time (Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress), but also for his work in co-creating Steam, the service that revolutionised digital distribution.
Newell will be on stage at the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards at GDC in March to accept this honour, and Kotaku will be there, passing a tissue box back and forth as we weep with joy. We always get emotional at these things.
Michael Cohen
Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 1:58 PMThat’s great and all, but how about that there Episode three? :c
Aaron
Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 2:29 PMI could not care about HL2 anymore, they should hurry up and move on to something new and better IMO.
zaphodity
Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 12:59 AMSo…Gabe “tons of fun” Newell gets the gaming equivalent of the Nobel Prize for bashing together a few servers and a Amazon.com style online franchise ? BRA-VO !