Gabe Newell Pokes Fun At Microsoft (With A Twist)

PlayStrum writes: "Valve founder and former Microsoft employee, Gabe Newell, went up on stage during the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards to accept his Pioneer Award and talk a bit about what it takes to be pioneers in the video game industry. During his speech, as he was to pull up a brief Power Point presentation, a (rehearsed) mishap occurred."

[rroded]

....

gabe u should do stand up full time

[ryuzu]

Yeah maybe he'd lose some weight.

If the standing didn't help, his poor material would have him eating Ramen once a day in no time lol

r.

[supraman21]

Stand up? Making him stand up 1 to 2 hours? Dam you must really hate Gabe Newell

[itisa]

He's an ex-Micro$oft Employee.

[Perjoss]

wow, are you guys like 11 years old? if you're going to mock the man at least come up with something witty.

[GameGambits]

It looks like to tailor his suit they had to go make it out of his living room curtains to find enough material.

Gabe is fat. :)

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

I thought it was funny

[Aaroncls7]

Nice one. I wish more companies would do stuff like that.
Creativity is refreshing.

[tyrex]

Keeps posting articles where the link to the site doesn't work. come on guys I know you want my hit to get that alexa rank a goin lol

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

It works.

[Das_Bastardion]

I don't see why they gave him a pioneer award.

John Carmack sure deserves an award like this, not this guy... pioneer?, for real? i dont see any breaktrough in video games thanks to this guy.

His company doesn't even try to program for the cell, what kind of pioneer is this guy then? lazyness?

[Pandamobile]

Uh, seriously? You don't think creating a platform that over 25 million people use to buy games, and completely changing the face of the games industry deserves a pioneering award?

Sony fanboys these days...

[iamgoatman]

Damnit Panda! You beat me to it.

[Vicophine]

If thats the case then sure does Steve Jobs... so not, he doesn't deserve praise.

[TheOutsider]

The only thing this fat a$$ needs is a Large pizza with red ring pepperonis! ha microsofts mascot!!!

[SonyWarrior]

gabe gets fatter and uglier each time he shows up.
and this is coming from a PC gamer too what did he make thats good? He didnt make counterstrike which is the only good game under valve. College students did he just bought it from them and put upgraded graphics on it with out adding any thing new to the gameplay.... over hyped dev for sure..

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

Damn, BSOD:
http://images.totalgamingne...

Ugly thing from Microsoft. A lot of errors from their products.

[Chaos Striker]

So uh, did you even read the article? Because, clearly, that isn't what a BSOD should read (hint)

[lightningsax]

Yeah, I'm happy that Portal 2 is starting to really gain some PR steam...

Huh. I only realized that was a pun when I typed it out!

Anyway, I thought that was clever. Obviously, he's not disparaging the company that makes the operating system that Valve's games have lived on for quite a while. It was a nice geeky push for Portal hype.

[holyorangecows2]

Am I the only one who doesn't get it what does a blue screen have to do with microsoft.

[Tony-A]

Do you not use Windows?

[holyorangecows2]

@Dweezy yes I use windows still don't get it though?

[Chaos Striker]

You must be pretty young to have never experienced the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) before :) It is basically a message being projected on a completely blue background in older windows versions that says some fatal error that has occurred within the operating system and therefore you are being brought the BSOD. Your only option, most of the time, was to force shutdown the computer and redo everything again. It was pretty much the most annoying thing about windows because it could show up without warning and screw over anything u were doing.

Gabe was essentially joking about that in his presentation, but the BSOD in this case had a message from GlaDos concerning more information about Portal 2 being revealed at E3.

[Cueil]

That is the Win 9X error... they have dump screens now and it's usually a serious hardware failure that causes them

[dredgewalker]

@holyorangecows
Im really shocked that you don't know what a BSOD is, you must be a mac user.

[greatjimbo78]

I think it's funnier that ALFAxD_CENTAURO thought it was real!
I admire your attempt at trolling, but epic fail on your part.

[Automat]

Win7 64bit bSOD on me as well. this is not a 9x issue.

[electricshadow]

Ha. I laughed. Well done, Gabe.

[lonix]

Without John carmack and the quake engine

[Pandamobile]

Neither would just about every video game you know today.

[ATi_Elite]

congratulations Gabe on your award it is well deserved.

Now for crying out loud give us Counter Strike 2 and Episode 3 before we go craaaaaaazy.

I hate waiting.

[Neko608]

A more appropriate headline would have been:

"Gabe Newell sinks his teeth into Microsoft, comedy, double whopper"

[Pandamobile]

Try harder.

[Pandamobile]

Having Gabe infront of a blue screen is just asking to be photoshoped.

http://xs.to/image-C4A7_4B9...
http://filesmelt.com/dl/fat...
http://i152.photobucket.com...

<3

[Neko608]

Nice... you win :)

[HypermysticsonicHMSX]

^

[Hotel_Moscow]

oh shi at the gif

[dredgewalker]

Now that was funny, but how can a blue screen appear behind Gabe when you can hide the Statue of Liberty behind him?

[greatjimbo78]

Lulz! You win teh internetz!

[Denethor_II]

hilarious

[KonohagakureFC]

I dont see Mcdonalds going out of business anytime soon do you?

[HypermysticsonicHMSX]

especially with old Gaybe on board! ;D

[Enigma_2099]

Sonova... now it ALL makes sense!!!

[Ninjamonkey82]

Idk gaming devs are getting like the nothern ireland politcal process, old fat and boring.

[Sir_Ken_Kutaragi_]

Hmm...shame i can't use the 'C' word!!! ;-D

I will NEVER forget what he said about the PS3 when it came out :-/

Oh look - "former Microsoft employee" Why am i not surprised !!! ;-D

[kornbeaner]

Nothing to do with the actual story but this man needs to lose some weight quick. Pretty soon he is not going to be able to do anything. For the sake of just wanting to be healthier lose some weight Gabe.

[Thoreau]

ya starting to get a little ignorant with your comments...

[Pandamobile]

How so?

[robotnik]

he is a steamfanboy/gabe, let him be!

[Cernunnos]

So many other developers that deserve this award so much more than he does.

[y0haN]

Such as "" and of course "".

[Pandamobile]

Like who? Steam brought the way we buy games into the 21st century. I can't think of anyone that's changed the games industry in the last 10 years than Gabe and Valve.

[solar]

still waiting on these "other developers" more deserving.....oh wait. you cant think of any. shocker.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

ooooohhh Gabe!

You double-cheeky bastard you! =)

[cereal_killa]

I wonder if C3PO was there to translate for Gabe.

http://www.youtube.com/watc... I KID!!! LMAO

[foxxy]

he lost a little weight

[pixelsword]

except my friend had curly/wavy blond hair and Gabe's was straight.

I should show it to him.

heck, I wonder if he's outta jail or whatever he got himself into.

[washingmachine]

god,gabe is that type of man that has to pay for it.whod want to be around him.

anywho,page not found lol

[Tony-A]

I think you just gotta try the link again. I got page not found first, clicked it again and it worked.

[yogaflame]

to bad he left ps3 again as usual, i hope he will be enlighten that there are also big valve fans on ps3

[dredgewalker]

I hope nobody pokes at Gabe cause he might explode.

[KeiserSosay4788]

Gabe is starting to look like that dude in mask...lol

[Denethor_II]

This mans weight problem is seriously getting out of hand!

[Midnight-Rogue]

like a friend of mine, only difference is...nevermind, I'll be nice. :)

[TehSuperCell]

"lolz gaeb fat gabe eatswell gabe sux gabe hueg lulz"
I sense jelousy.
Just cuz he doesnt work on your platform of choice, doesnt mean you have to insult his weigh. Thats imature. Grow up.

[spektical]

wow i have to say that was not funny.

i've heard about double chins, but this guys has chins on his chins.

[Darkfiber]

I hope this fat f*&% dies soon, about time he had a heart attack. I don't know what disgusts me more, his obesity or his constant stream of idiotic comments.

[hill71]

wow that man is huge

[Dead_Cell]

He earns more in a week than the majority of you probably see in a year. Fat or not.

[Cpt Qwark]

Gabe newell plays wow. spread the word.

[zeddy]

he looks like a fat version of bill gates.