Gabe Newell isn’t a pussy anymore. He’s been quoted many times talking down the Playstation 3 and that he had no interest in developing games to work on the system. But we all know he just couldn’t handle the Cell and was affraid to fail miserably.

PS3 owners who were fans of Valve games were either out of luck or kicked in the nads when Gabe gives EA control over PS3 ports. Unfortunately, Sony wasn’t able to talk him into reconsidering developing for the PS3. That is until now. After a bit of of work by Sony Research and Development, they were able to come up with some specs that would intice Gabe and Valve to consider the PS3 a viable system to develop for.

Gabe had considerable control over the new design and Sony, being left out of the cool new games from Valve, gave Gabe and his team full creative control. Curiously, none of the actual sytem specs have been changed in this new premium edition. Rather, and contrary to Sony’s past releases where the newer version was usually much smaller, the new version designed by Gabe is larger than initial release PS3s. In fact, the new version PS3 is 78% larger! The sole reason for the increased size seems to be so they could fit a decal of Gabe Newell on the face of the system as they didn’t need any extra room inside the box since nothing internal has changed. Thankfully it is only a half body shot of Gabe, though.

The other obvious change in the new version is the color. Gabe chose the hot pink for this exciting release and supposedly all other skews will be pulled from the shelves as he doesn’t want any competition at all.

Some other exciting rumors will coincide with the release of the new Playstation 3 version, now officially called the “PS300lb Edition“. For starters, we will likely be seeing some cool new additions to new, enhanced, versions of Valve games exclusively for the PS300lb. For example, expect to see some vehicles in Team Fortress 2 such as the tank shown in this exclusive gameplay screenshot. We assume the colors are to help celebrate the PS300lb but hopefully not all the vehicles will be prettied up.

Also look out for new Left 4 Dead modes including “Shop Till They Drop” where supposedly you are trapped in a mall and rather than shoot the hoarding zombies you have to wander the mall and shop, buying hot new designer dresses and shoes to drop the dead. We are not sure how the play mechanics will work but it sounds interesting. There is also a mode called “Fashion Show” but we were not let in on the details as they are still working it out.

Anyway, for all you Gabe Newell haters out there that coudn’t stop whining about his favoring the 360, now you have something to look forward to.

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