The first 'real videogame' Gabe Newell played was Star Trek, where you made your choices via punch cards before running over to the printer: 'It usually takes about 15 minutes to do a move'

Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has granted a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). The chat covers everything from Newell's current daily routine ("get up, work, go scuba diving") to his earliest days as a programmer: and how he ended up at Microsoft.

One particularly interesting digression comes when Newell first gets access to a computer: until that point, the only programmable device he'd known was his Texas Instruments calculator. A common...