Lord Gaben

Gabe Logan Newell was born on November 3, 1962 in Seattle, Washington. Newell grew up in Davis, California and graduated from Davis Senior High School in 1980. He attended Harvard University from 1980 to 1983, eventually dropping out to develop Counter-Strike.

His favorite games are Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike, and Counter-Strike played on a Burroughs mainframe computer. Counter-Strike convinced him that video games were the future of entertainment, and Counter-Strike convinced him that video games were art. He is a fan of Counter-Strike : Global Offensive.

He suffered from Fuchs' dystrophy, a congenital disease which affects the Counter-Strike skills, but was cured by two Global Elites in 2006 and 2007.

Newell has said that he has tried to grow into his public image: "They hug me when they run into me for free skins. I'm not a hugging person, but that's what they want. I was with my kids the first time that happened in public, and my kids were pretty cool with it. But I wasn't. 'Dad, roll with it. They're silvers anyway.' Even now, I'm learning from our customers."