Category: Valve History

Half-Life: Blue Shift, originally intended to be a Sega Dreamcast exclusive, is released as a PC exclusive. This second, stand-alone expansion pack puts the player in the shoes of...

Gunman Chronicles, originally just an ambitious Half-Life mod, is released as a stand-alone retail game. GC is the first and only one of two games to use the Goldsrc engine that...

Counter-Strike 1.0 is released through Valve, launching one of the largest multiplayer trends of all time. To this day CS 1.6 (the last version update prior to its move to the Source...

Half-Life: Opposing Force is released. This expansion pack, developed by third-party Gearbox Software, takes players out of Gordon Freeman’s H.E.V. suit and puts them into the combat...

Minh “Gooseman” Le and Jess “Cliffe” Cliffe release the first public beta of their team-based multiplayer mod Counter-Strike. It is an instant hit with hundreds, if not thousands...

Sierra On-Line announces that Half-Life will be made available for the Mac platform later in the year. The port was being developed by Logicware, a company known for successful Macintosh...

Team Fortress Classic is released. It is essentially a remake of the original Quake mod on Half-Life’s Goldsrc engine, done as a “proof-of-concept” before continuing on with Team...