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Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to embrace Linux

Valve head—and one-time Microsoft employee—Gabe Newell has branded Windows 8 “a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space” at videogame conference Casual Connect in Seattle. The Valve boss continued, saying that in the fallout from Windows 8, “we’ll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.” Newell criticised Windows 8 while talking about the future of the gaming industry, and you can read everything he said at VentureBeat.

He argued that one of the last remaining things keeping people away from Linux was the lack of games. Valve is working to bring Left 4 Dead 2 and other Steam titles to Linux in a move that Newell describes as “a hedging strategy.” If his predictions about Windows 8 come true, he says “it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.”

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Re:Fresh 33 - Struggle Show

This week on the show: the whole crew is struggling to get through this one as we start off with a marathon session of Blueberry Haze and Jack Herer. Anyway, we talk about Bonnie & Clyde’s personal stuff, including their guns, going up for auction, we talk about the woman killed by a off-duty Detroit police officers gun, and a Christian and a Muslim go into a hotel and ask about porn…find out why that’s not the set up for a joke on this weeks episode of Re:Fresh.

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Valve Tries To Charge People Based On How Likable They Are: Trolls Pay Full Price

We’ve talked plenty of times about unique business models and experiments by Valve Software. it’s latest experiment sounds particularly interesting, if perhaps difficult to pull off well. It appears that the company wants to try to charge jerks more — but let likable people play free (story found via Slashdot). The specifics are a bit vague, but the plan is for the game DOTA 2. Valve’s Gabe Newell has hinted at this:

“The issue that we’re struggling with quite a bit is something I’ve kind of talked about before, which is how do you properly value people’s contributions to a community?” he said, reflecting on a discussion he had with Develop last year.

Last year Newell told Develop that “the games industry has this broken model, which is one price for everyone. That’s actually a bug, and it’s something that we want to solve through our philosophy of how we create entertainment products”.

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In an investor call today, NCSoft confirmed that plans are moving forward on a console release of Guild Wars 2, stating that they are in a “preparation stage.”

In an investor call today, NCSoft confirmed that plans are moving forward on a console release of Guild Wars 2, stating that they are in a “preparation stage.”