10 Unbelievable Ways Creators Hid Themselves In Video Games
1. Gabe Newell - Half-Life
The creator of one of the most beloved first-person shooters of all time, as well as the man single-handedly wafting off death threats for the third instalment of the series ever since Episode 2, Gabe Newell is one of the most famous (or perhaps infamous) names in gaming. Half-Life has long been his masterpiece, and it's not just for the gameplay...
Simultaneously terrifying as well as just peak Games Developer Banter, Newell decided to craft a room entirely made up of tiles of his face hidden at the bottom of an elevator shaft. You have to load up some cheats for it to appear before plunging yourself into the chute of darkness, clipping through the lowest level to land in a room of smiling fleshy Gabe cubes. You'll only know that if you turn your flashlight on though, adding some real horror-movie vibes to the whole thing.
Maybe this is what going insane is like. The padded walls are a lie, it's just Gabe Newell's face over, and over, and over, and over again...