Valve Software Tour

Over the last decade, Valve's reputation and sales numbers have grown by leaps and bounds. Franchises like Left 4 Dead and Portal have been introduced to fantastic critical and commercial reaction, resulting in the company as a whole growing in size. As such, they started to outgrow their 38,000 sq. ft. studio in Bellevue, Washington. This month, the entire studio packed up and moved down the road a bit to a brand-new location that will be almost three times as big when it's all said and done.

Check out our video below to see the old studio pre-move, the new studio under construction, and finally, the finished product.

[TheSyntheticPop]

1:24 - socially awkward. "Lunch time - WOOPS! - Back to level development, I'd rather starve than to have to talk on camera."

[Nudhul]

Snack room is right next to Gabe's office lol.

[tasemmm]

at 4:16 I was expecting the guy to say something like "yeah, the other guy's fired"

[MarkmusProductions]

1:24
Look at the guy doing a 180 when he sees that there's a camera crew there.

[CounterLife]

"Open your eyes, open your mind"
-VALVe Software slogan

[cmcewen]

I spent a bit of time studying the Gabe scene. What the heck is he working on there? Looks like he's fooling around with some web programming, maybe HTML5 or something.

I had to laugh at his messy hair and surprised expression. Looks like he had a rough night, wonder what those cans on the table are? :p

[deggis]

@leerman22 It's a tv. Makes the choice quite interesting. I guess Gabe just likes large pixels instead of a lot of resolution and space.

[lawrencecoutroubas]

I thought that everything shipped into Valve would arrive in Mann Co. Supply crates.

[Aoe]

Thanks for putting this up! I wouldn't have been able to watch it on my iPod otherwise. :)

[Yougiz]

omg gabe sitting that close to that huge tv xD

[mumimdead]

valve have the god's gift of making best games ever, and the devil mind of making us wait a long time.

[MegaSean]

I'm gonna go to Valve one day, and I'm gonna peek at someone's computer asking, "You working on Ep3 or Left 4 Dead 3?"

[danin]

@AnonIonCannon that's the Left 4 Dead 2 sticky notes board....

[zeoblow]

I like to keep my knife collection at work too... for the zombies

[Louis.]

If 3rd games come out Valve software will be Valve *HARDWARE*

[leerman]

Gabe has a big monitor,
Just wait until he learns about Eyefinity and NVIDIA Surround!

[MicolashHostOfTheNightmare]

I DONT SEE EP3 ON THE BOARD OF STICKY NOTES

[boomerang]

So, where are the people who disable accounts?

[Gwynnbleid]

@olesto yea...meanwhile at valve...
Now we know why are they late with HL2: episode 3

[wompstopm]

it makes sense now why there are so many knives in csgo