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Video game and software developer Valve Corp, in Bellevue, Wash., has 300 employees–but not a single manager. How to they do that? What’s it like to work in a boss-free zone? And what other companies share Valve’s approach to non-management? Valve’s website proclaims: “We’ve been boss-free since 1996. Imagine working with super smart, super [...]

Valve CEO Gabe Newell admits that the company is looking to provide an open hardware platform both in the living room and mobile sector.Valve Software bossman Gabe Newell admitted during a podcast interview with Seven Day Cooldown that the company is looking to create an open hardware platform both in the living room and [...]

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Every developer should wish it were Valve. The creator of the Half-Life series has a certain quality that makes its products nearly universally praised by critics and fans. Up until now, many onlookers have credited Gabe Newell, Valve's founder and managing director, with guiding the developer (and digital retailer) to its unprecedented success, but the [...]

Every developer should wish it were Valve. The creator of the Half-Life series has a certain quality that makes its products nearly universally praised by critics and fans. Up until now, many onlookers have credited Gabe Newell, Valve's founder and managing director, with guiding the developer (and digital retailer) to its unprecedented success, but the [...]

The new SM100 Sampling Pump Module from General Monitors draws combustible or toxic gases at 0.05 to 1 LPM from monitored areas to a gas detector, making it easier and cost effective to measure potentially hazardous gases in areas that are too remote, inaccessible, or too cold, hot, or wet for direct sensor monitoring.

There’s a certain employee handbook [PDF] making internet rounds, one that portrays a completely idealistic, pie-in-the sky way of doing business that could never work at a mid-size developer, especially one that generates billions of dollars of revenue in the real-life video game industry. …Well, that’s what you might think if this wasn’t [...]

Valve head Gabe Newell has revealed his thoughts regarding EA’s Origin platform, stating that he hopes EA changes its mind and brings its Origin-exclusive titles back to Steam. EA launched its own digital distribution platform last year, and soon afterwards began to remove its games from Valve’s Steam service, signalling the company’s desire [...]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work for game developer Valve? You might have thought the company was highly unconventional, but a peek inside its employee handbook gives you a better indication of just how deep that insouciant peculiarity goes within the organization.[More from Mashable: Nyan Cat Gets a Soundtrack [...]