Category: Valve History

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Half-Life: Uplink, the official Half-Life demo, is released. The demo features parts of the original Half-Life that didn’t make the final cut. (See the original press statement ...

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With the great success and flood of cash revenue coming in off of Half-Life, programmers set to work on an even heavier modification of the Goldsrc engine. This is technically why...

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The first Team Fortress 2 media is released, showing a sharp contrast from the cartoonish original with the much more realistic look of modern combat military games, as well as a...

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Half-Life is released through Sierra On-Line after some initial difficulty in finding a publisher largely due to Valve’s reputation of being overly ambitious. It quickly becomes...

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Valve acquires TF Software PTY Ltd., the makers of the original Team Fortress mod for Quake, with the intention of developing and releasing a new stand-alone title, Team Fortress...

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Gabe Newell begins a long-standing Valve tradition and decides to regroup his creative teams to start from scratch on a single title, combining the drama of Prospero with the action...

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Two teams work on two separate titles to launch the Valve brand; Quiver, an action-packed first-person shooter, and Prospero, a Myst-style adventure drama. Both get relatively far...

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Valve is founded as an L.L.C. in Kirkland, WA by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, instrumental minds behind nearly three generations of the Windows operating...

Category: Valve History

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