"Yes, we have removed the game's sales page and ceased relations with the developer after he threatened to kill one of our employees," said Valve's Doug Lombardi in an email. In a statement to Polygon, Valve confirmed that the game was pulled as a result of Maulbeck's threat. The game no longer appears on the Steam website. In response, Valve pulled Paranautical Activity from Steam, and according to Maulbeck, contacted him to say it was terminating its relationship with the developer and closing down his Steam admin account. " Maulbeck then allegedly said in a since-deleted tweet, "I am going to kill gabe newell. Maulbeck let loose a series of vitriolic tweets, calling Valve " incompetent " and expressing anger at Steam's " awful fucking monopoly. "A statement I obviously didn't mean, but nonetheless was totally unacceptable and driven entirely by the heat of frustration I was feeling at the time."
"This being a project I spent years of my life on, I was very frustrated by this mistake made, so I tweeted a series of tweets calling them incompetent that eventually ended in me saying 'I swear I'm gonna fucking kill gabe' or something," Maulbeck said in an email to Polygon. When it went live, the game's Steam page indicated that the game was still in Early Access, which Maulbeck believed would "greatly cripple sales and confuse customers."
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Mike Maulbeck, creator of Paranautical Activity, says he released the final version of his PC game on Steam today.
The developer of Paranautical Activity, described by its creators as a fast-paced, first-person shooter roguelike, had its game pulled from Valve's Steam service today after its creator posted a death threat to the company's co-founder, Gabe Newell.