Valve Was Once Making a "Space Pirate" Game Whispers of the project have been doing the rounds for a while now , but last week Valve boss Gabe Newell gave the first confirmation that, yes, his studio had at one point been making a space game with the initials "SoB". Where theories on what that meant ranged from "Stars of Barathrum" to the more obvious "Son of a Bitch", Newell says in this video the game was code-named "Stars of Blood", and while describing it as an "internal project", says it was a "space pirate game". Oh, he also says it "never saw the light of day".