Category: Valve History

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Half-Life 2: Episode One is released, the first of an anticipated trilogy of expansion packs that serve as a sequel to Half-Life 2. It contains improved Source features and a lot...

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Day of Defeat gets a Source engine remake, making special use of several post-processing visual filters to give it that gritty, 1940s war film look.

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Showing off the Source engine’s modular upgradeability, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, a single-map mission, is released as a technical demonstration of new high dynamic range renderi...

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Students at the DigiPen Institute of Technology, a tech school for aspiring video game developers, release Narbacular Drop to little public notice. It does not pass by Gabe Newell,...

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Valve through Prima Games publish “Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar” authored by David Hodgson. Available in both hardback and paperback the book is a collection, comprised of images,...

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Much to the shock of many, Half-Life 2 is actually released after many were starting to think it would be the next Duke Nukem Forever. For some, Steam servers crash from so many...

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Instead of a release, fans are let in on the details of a legal battle between Valve and Vivendi Universal Games, who had recently bought out Sierra On-Line and thus had an exclusive...

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To give players an early taste of the Source engine first hand, Valve releases Counter-Strike: Source. In the months leading up to Half-Life 2’s release, thousands of players enjoy...

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In the face of mounting accusations and rumors, Gabe Newell admits that the major delays in the release of Half-Life 2 had little to do with the leak, and that the company was being...

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Half-Life 2 is delayed once again, this time as far ahead as September 2004, a full year past its initial release date. Kevin “Fragmaster” Bowen, who had inside information he had...

Category: Valve History

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