Ndipei nhoroondo yeValve
Context:Kutanga uye Half-Life (1996<unk>2003)  Gabe Newell (pamberi) naDoug Lombardi (kumashure), 2007 Valve yakavambwa seValve, LLC, muna 1996 nevaimbove vashandi veMicrosoft Gabe Newell naMike Harrington. Newell akanga apedza makore 13 ari paMicrosoft achigadzira Windows, kusanganisira Windows 95 port yeDoom. Vachida kutamira kune rimwe bhizimisi vachishandisa pfuma yavo yavakagoverana, Newell naHarrington vakatanga Valve, L.L.C. muKirkland, Washington (anenge mamaira mashanu kubva paMicrosoft campus muRedmond), musi waAugust 24, 1996, zuva romuchato waNewell. Mamwe mazita anofungidzirwa naNewell naHarrington anosanganisira Fruitfly Ensemble uye Rhino Scar.  Mutambo wekutanga weValve waive Half-Life, munhu wekutanga kupfura (FPS) ane zvinhu zvinotyisa. Kuvandudzwa kwakabatsirwa nekuwana injini yeQuake ne id Software; Valve yakagadzirisa iyi injini muinjini yavo yeGoldSrc. Mushure mekurwira kuwana muparidzi, Valve pakupedzisira akasaina neSierra On-Line. Half-Life yakabudiswa munaNovember 1998 uye yakabudirira zvikuru uye yekutengesa. Nezvechokwadi chayo, zvinyorwa zvakateedzana uye nhoroondo isina musono, yaive nesimba rinogara; maererano neIGN muna 2014, nhoroondo yeFPS genre "inoputsika zvakanyatsonaka mu pre-Half-Life uye post-Half-Life eras".
Kutanga uye Half-Life (1996<unk>2003): Valve yakavambwa seValve, LLC, muna 1996 nevaimbove vashandi veMicrosoft Gabe Newell naMike Harrington muKirkland, Washington. Mutambo wekutanga weValve ndiHalf-Life, munhu wekutanga kupfura (FPS) yakaburitswa munaNovember 1998. Yakagadzirwa ichishandisa injini yeQuake yakagadziridzwa GoldSrc. Mushure mekurwira kuwana muparidzi, Valve pakupedzisira akasaina neSierra On-Line.