Gabe Newell welcomes the crowd at The International in 2016, an eSports gaming tournament sponsored by Valve. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)In a couple of recent interviews with New Zealand’s 1 NEWS, Valve Software’s Gabe Newell has offered a few insights on what might be next for the...
Rocket Lab has successfully recovered the first stage of an Electron launch vehicle after it made a controlled splashdown in the Atlantic, marking a major milestone in the company’s quest for a reusable rocket. CEO Peter Beck, speaking to press shortly after the operation, called the mission...
Launch provider Rocket Lab has a mission today – codenamed ‘Return to Sender,’ it’s the company’s 16th launch, and it will carry, among other things, a payload that will demonstrate a technology to help safely deorbit satellites. It has a secondary mission that’s potentially more...
Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week:
Just before the election, Joe Biden’s campaign released a list of its top “bundlers,” people who raise big donations to the campaign. Several well-known Seattle tech names were on the list. We look at who they are and why...
The titanium replica of Gnome Chompski that’s headed into space. Take us with you, Gnome! (Source: Rocket Labs)Gabe Newell, president of Bellevue-based Valve Software, announced this morning that he’s having a garden gnome fired into space. For charity.
It makes a little more sense in context....
Dungeons & Dragons dice come in odd shapes and sizes. (Brent Roraback Photo)For Game to Grow, 2020 was going to be a year of opportunity. The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially —...
Valve is like an eccentric billionaire uncle who isn't allowed to babysit any kids in the family. He lives alone in a mountaintop mansion stocked with exotic animals, vintage pinball machines, water slides and homemade potato guns, and strange...