Half-Life (series)
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Half-Life is a series of first-person shooter games created by Valve. The games combine shooting combat, puzzles and storytelling, and are played entirely from the first-person perspective.
Valve's co-founder Gabe Newell at The International 2018
Half-Life (video game)
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Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The p
Half-Life (series)
…created by Valve. The games combine shooting combat, puzzles and storytelling, and are played entirely from the first-person perspective. The original Half-Life, Valve's first product, was released in 1998 for Windows. Players control silent protagonist Gordon Freeman, a scientist working at the Black Mesa…
Original North American cover art
An in-game screenshot of the player battling Marines, an AH-64 attack helicopter, and a gun turret in the chapter "Surface Tension"
Valve's president, Gabe Newell, in 2002
Valve hired the novelist Marc Laidlaw (pictured in 2011) to write the story.