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Valve
Based in Bellevue, Washington, Valve has enjoyed a reputation as one of the most highly respected entertainment software and technology companies since our inception in 1996, with a decadeslong track record in the industry for awardwinning games, innovative digital distribution platforms, cuttingedge technologies, and toptier talent.SteamValve is the creator of Steam, the worlds 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 users games completely up to date. With an active userbase of over 25 million, Steam also connects gamers with each other, making it easy to find friends, keep track of each others gaming activity, and easily play games together. Since its inception as a service for updating Valves own game CounterStrike, Steam has grown to become a service used worldwide, translated into 21 languages, and with content servers on every continent (save Antarctica, but were sure thats just a matter of time).Games. HalfLife, our 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 worlds bestselling PC games magazine.
Valves everexpanding portfolio of entertainment titles includes further entries in the HalfLife universe, including HalfLife 2 and HalfLife 2 Episodes 1 and 2; the fourplayer cooperative action horror franchise Left 4 Dead; the multiplayer combat franchise Team Fortress; the awardwinning Portal; and 1 online action game CounterStrike. 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.TechnologiesIn addition to creating Steam and producing best selling entertainment titles, Valve is a developer of leadingedge technologies including the Source game engine.Source is widely recognized as the most flexible, comprehensive, and powerful game development environment available. Combining leadingedge character animation, advanced AI, realworld physics, shaderbased rendering, and a highly extensible development environment to produce some of the most popular computer and console games on the market.
