Valve Corporation is an American computer games company that has created the Half-Life, Portal, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Day of Defeat, Left 4 Dead, Ricochet, Alien Swarm and Dota 2 series of computer games; game engines GoldSrc, Source, Source 2; software: Steam, Valve Anti-Cheat, SteamOS; as well as hardware: Steam Machines, Steam Controller. Headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, USA. On August 24, 1996, Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, after thirteen years at Microsoft, founded Valve. The company's office was located in Kirkland, Washington. In order to start development as quickly as possible, a license for the Quake game engine was purchased, after which the one and a half year development of the Half-Life (HL) game began. The working title of the game is Quiver. Professional science fiction writer Mark Laidlaw was hired to work on the script. The game has become a sci-fi 3D first-person shooter. Gabe and Mike wanted to create something similar to DOOM, the same dark cr...
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