Gabe Newell bans BioShock in office till work on Orange Box is complete.
To motivate his team to complete working on the Orange Box ASAP, Valve’s head honcho Gabe Newell has banned them from playing BioShock.
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Here’s what he had to say in a recent interview with
CVG.com, “We had to ban BioShock from our offices. Nobody gets to play it until Orange Box is done - that’s our reward to ourselves as a company; everyone gets a copy of BioShock.”
The Orange Box is expected to hit the Xbox360, PS3 and PC by the 19th of October 2007.
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