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valve corporation formerly known as
valve software was founded in 1996 by
Mike Harrington and Gabe Newell in 1998
the company released their first game
half-life which ran on a heavily
modified quake engine called gold source
half-life became an instant success and
is today widely considered to be one of
the greatest games of all time aside
from the success of the half-life series
almost every game valve has developed
and released since has become a
critically acclaimed video game
franchise up until half-life episode one
this image of a man with a valve in his
left eye can be seen when you start up
and it valve made game and it's actually
a photo of a former valve employee
however since then it's been replaced
with this image instead both photos were
taken sometime between 1995 and 96 when
valve was first founded but the second
guy remains unknown an employee at valve
asset that they simply picked a random
guy from the street and brought him into
the studio to take the photo thus no one
really knows who this man is and while
on this topic the music you hear while
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it's actually an original soundtrack
from half-life before he co-founded
valve Gabe new world actually worked for
Microsoft for 13 years and helped to
produce the first free versions of
Windows Windows 1 windows 2 and Windows
3 just kidding gaben I mean a new would
never release a third anything he
actually worked on Windows 1 2 and 2.1 I
wonder if this is where his hate for the
number 3 was born in other words the
reason episode 3 or half-life 3 haven't
been released yet its Microsoft's fault
Electronic Arts or EA is these days
known for being in the worst game
company out there it's due in part
because of their tendency to buy big
video game studios just to release a
shitty sequel or in some other way
destroy a popular franchise some
examples are Maxis dice Westwood Bioware
and pandemic and a horrifying thought is
that valve could have been on that list
as well in late 2012 EA offer to buy
valve for 1 billion dollars it would
have been the largest acquisition by EA
so far but luckily for us this never
happened because Newell said valve said
valve would rather disintegrate than to
ever sell out the promotional meet the
team videos for Team Fortress 2 are
actually more than just fanservice or
game promotion
Newell has said that the video service
experiments in the movie making because
the studio would prefer to do a
half-life movie themselves however last
year valve announced that they had
talked to JJ Abrams about possibly
making a half-life or portal movie what
ends up happening remains to be seen but
it looks like we will somewhere down the
line get a movie based on a valve game
unlike traditional jobs where the
employee is given a desk in a set of
instructions from a manager those
working at Val don't have a man
as outlined in the handbook given to
every new employee hierarchy is great
for maintaining predictability
repeatability and managing a large
number of people but for one of the top
entertainment companies on the planet
telling an employee to sit behind a desk
and do one specific task kills most of
their creativity as such workers get to
select which projects they want to work
on have the power to greenlight new
projects and even release new products a
year before half-life 2 was released in
2004 valve was actually hacked the
hacker managed to download the entire
source code for half-life 2 and not long
after the unfinished game was found on
BitTorrent sites all over the Internet
soon after valve had noticed a leak they
managed to track down and get in contact
with a German hacker after doing so
Newell tricked him into thinking valve
wanted to hire him but in reality he
would have been arrested by the FBI upon
arrival before any of this happened
though the FBI alerted the police in
Germany and the hacker was arrested in
his home in 2004 the online gaming
service team was launched in 2002 and
would later replace their previous
service world opponent Network as of
2004 team steam has over 3,000 games 75
million active users and around 75% of
all PC games bought online are
downloaded through Steam however over
35% of all registered Steam games have
never been played so if you've ever
looked at your library filled with
hundreds of games and you still hear
yourself thinking I have nothing to play
you're not alone they'll actually have a
working team fortress 2 sentry gun and a
portal turret and are working I don't
mean that they straight-up [ __ ]
murder people but rather working as a
life-sized prop it moves and can track
your motion it has a built-in camera and
even plays sound effects from the games
it's been known for a few years now and
even confirmed by valve themselves that
source engine too is in the works a few
images of levels remade in the engine
has also been leaked and most recently
it seems that the latest update for dota
2 is actually using some form of light
version of the engine but so far there's
no official word from valve another
interesting piece of evidence came from
a tour at valve HQ a few fortunate
gamers were given a tour around the
office and while taking pictures this
photo was taken
it's a little blurry but if you look
closely you'll find two very interesting
things first source 2 is mentioned but
also left 4 dead 3 and if you take l4d 3
and remove the letters what do you get
numbers and what you do with numbers map
and what is math good for subtraction 4
minus 3 is 1
remove the letters from source 2 when
you get to what is the opposite of
subtraction addition 1 plus 2 is 3 off
life 3 confirmed
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