Gabe Newell Celebrates His Birthday — The Father of Valve Turns 63

Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, will turn 63 years old on November 3rd — the man who forever altered the game. Gabe's name is associated with legendary franchises - Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, and of course, Counter-Strike, and his biggest legacy could very well be Steam - an amazing digital delivery platform that changed the game distribution system and came to run PC gaming around the world.

Gabe was born in 1962 where he began his career at Microsoft working on the early versions of Windows. In 1996, he left Microsoft and launched Valve – which changed not only Gabe's life, but the life of gaming altogether. Since Gabe has been involved with and supervised everything Valve has made, Valve has reached a legendary status, and Gabe has become one of gaming's most famous and liked personalities. 

Gabe is also known as a passionate yacht expert with an amazing collection of rare items linked throughout history, and even though people will always make fun, say they are sad Half-Life 3 will never come out. He is always known for innovation, design, creativity, freedom, and independence. 

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Happy Birthday Gabe! Hope you will always have the creativity, humour, and love for games!