Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year

Valve CEO Gabe Newell pretends to get a hole drilled into his head for a brain-computer interface.

Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell, the company behind Half-Life and DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike and preeminent PC game distribution platform Steam, has long toyed with the idea that your brain should be more connected to your PC. It began over a decade ago with in-house psychologists studying people’s biological responses to video games; Valve once considered earlobe monitors for its first VR headset.