VALVE CORP.
Based in Bellevue, Washington, Valve has enjoyed a reputation as one of the most highly respected entertainment software and technology companies since valve's inception in 1996, with a decades-long track record in the industry for award-winning games, innovative digital distribution platforms, cutting-edge technologies, and top-tier talent.
Steam
Valve is the creator of Steam, the world’s largest online gaming platform. Steam turns any PC or Mac into a gaming powerhouse by providing instant access to a huge library of titles, and by automatically keeping a user’s games completely up to date. With an active user-base of over 25 million, Steam also connects gamers with each other, making it easy to find friends, keep track of each other’s gaming activity, and easily play games together. Since its inception as a service for updating Valve’s own game Counter-Strike, Steam has grown to become a service used world-wide, translated into 21 languages, and with content servers on every continent (save Antarctica, but we’re sure that’s just a matter of time).
Games
Half-Life, Valve's debut title, has won over 50 Game of the Year awards and was named "Best PC Game Ever" in the November 1999, October 2001, and April 2005 issues of PC Gamer, the world's best-selling PC games magazine.
Valve's ever-expanding portfolio of entertainment titles includes further entries in the Half-Life® universe, including Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2 Episodes 1 and 2; the four-player cooperative action horror franchise Left 4 Dead®; the multi player combat franchise Team Fortress®; the award-winning Portal™; and #1 online action game Counter-Strike®. This portfolio of titles accounts for over 20 million retail units sold worldwide, and Valve games account for over 80% of the PC online action market.
Technologies
In addition to creating Steam and producing best selling entertainment titles, Valve is a developer of leading-edge technologies including the Source® game engine.
Source is widely recognized as the most flexible, comprehensive, and powerful game development environment available. Combining leading-edge character animation, advanced AI, real-world physics, shader-based rendering, and a highly extensible development environment to produce some of the most popular computer and console games on the market.
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