GabeN. Steam.

If you are a gaming enthusiast and enjoy playing video games on your computer, chances are that you have heard of Gabe Newell. For those of you who may not know our lord savior… Gabe Newell is the is the co-founder and managing director of Valve corporation which you may know for their many hit titles such as, Portal, Half-life, Dota2, Team fortress and Left 4 dead and the Steam client. Gabe Newell started his career at Microsoft corporation having worked there for 13 years, he left Microsoft to found Valve and started the production of half life and steam.  So thats a little overview of GabeN. but what I really wanted to talk about in this post is Steam. So for those of you who don’t know Steam “Steam is an internet-based digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer, and social networking platform developed by Valve Corporation.” Steam dominates the PC gaming market, you can find almost all of your favorite games on steam, thanks to Steam you can buy most of those games on sale for discount prices without having to go to a store and buy a physical copy. But thats not all, Steam also has other functions, such as work shop, Steam green light and many more. Steam has also changed the indie gaming world. A lot of indie game developers now release their games through steam greenlight, if a game receives a lot of positive feedback the developer is then able to release their content through steam. Steam workshop is also huge for independent artists wheather you create hats for team fortress2 or Dota2 or you’re creating custom maps or game mods. Steam provides the opportunity for a lot of people to create content for the games they like to play and get paid for it through steam.