There’s hardly a figure that looms larger over PC gaming than Valve president Gabe Newell. The company’s games are some of the most influential ever made; Steam has come to dominate the entire industry; and now he’s hoping to make a whole new breakthrough in handheld gaming. So, fresh from our Steam Deck review, we sat down to ask him about what made the device possible, his ambitions for the future, and, er, NFTs.
It feels like Steam OS is the secret sauce of the Steam Deck that we haven’t seen in a portable PC before. Are you still planning to release it publicly? Or is there any worry that the next portable system would simply take that and become a Steam Deck copycat?
No, actually, we hope they do. I mean, in order to get here, we had to follow a fairly lengthy process. And all of the steps along the way, whether it was Steam Machines, or Link, or the controller, or the work we’ve done building products in-house with Index and so on, has enabled us to get to the point that we can build Steam Deck. It’s just more [about] timing than anything to release Steam OS, and to enable other people to build related products.
When you debuted the Steam Deck, you spoke about hoping that it was the beginning of a new ecosystem for portable PCs. What do you hope to see from other hardware companies, if the Steam Deck is a hit?
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BITING BACK
The tooth is out there in adventure TEETH OF GLASS
SMOKE ALARM
THE INVISIBLE SMOKE FACTORY is back in a Flash
MECH ME OVER
Move over Mario, here's mech-based platforming in ARMORED SHELL NIGHTJAR
"I like Pillars of Eternity better than Baldur's Gate III"
PILLARS OF ETERNITY deserves a bigger space in the CRPG pantheon
"A harrowing dark fantasy about hapless, bright-eyed children"
Spelunking into hell with MADE IN ABYSS: BINARY STAR FALLING INTO DARKNESS
THE IMMORTAL LOCK
A massive, meaty game in a single horrific Quake map.
NEW MANOEUVRES
Building a dedicated sim racing space in an average family house
OVERWATCH 2
Save me space girl.
REET GOOD TIME
THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE is a riotous recreation of Yorkshire
THE PLUCKY SQUIRE
How many games let you make friends with a MtG card?