The company was founded on August 24, 1996 by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. Inte

The company was founded on August 24, 1996 by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. Interestingly, they originally expected to work independently for about a year and then return to Microsoft. Over the course of three decades, Valve managed to build Steam, release Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Left 4 Dead, Dota and other games, with almost all of them growing out of a foreign idea, fashion or user project: Counter-Strike was a fashion for Half-Life, Dota was a card for the student Drop 3 Craft Portal, and Team Fortress began development without Narbacular Warfare. #game #Steam #Dota