http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/blogs/game-junkie/7352717/Is-gaming-on-Windows-8-doomed-already
So when at a gaming event in Seattle this week, he said (via Kotaku) that he believes Windows 8, Microsoft's next big operating system, is a "catastrophe" that will lead to developers abandoning the PC platform, gamers sat up and took notice.
This is probably the last thing Microsoft wants to hear from a development company that champions PC gaming, especially when PC gaming is already struggling against its console counterparts (some developers now develop their games only for console) but according to site AllThingsD, Newell said Valve was considering developing games for open-source platform Linux rather than Windows 8.
This is what Newell was quoted as saying by AllThingsD: "The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realise how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behaviour."