Valve Corporation
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- Valve L.L.C. (from 1996 to 2003)
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Valve Corporation is an entertainment software company founded in 1996 by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington in Kirkland, Washington. They were both previously with Microsoft. Valve's debut product, Half-Life, released in November 1998, has won more than 50 Game of the Year honors worldwide.
On 12 September 2003, the company launched the digital distribution platform Steam. Steam's launch and the question of licenses for cyber cafes resulted in a dispute with Valve's publisher at the time, Vivendi Universal (as owner of Sierra), which was resolved in April 2005 in Valve's favor, with all their future titles being self-published from that moment on. Steam would gradually gain traction as the most popular digital distribution service for PC games by the late 2000s, for both Valve's and third-party titles.
All of the company's titles from 1998 to mid-2004 ran on the in-house GoldSrc engine until it was succeeded by the Source engine with the release of Counter-Strike: Source in 2004. Valve then used the Source engine for all of their titles until the engine was succeeded by Source 2 in 2015.
Aside games and engines, Valve has developed a Linux distribution named SteamOS (as of 2013), Steam Machine and Steam Controller hardware (2015-2019), virtual reality set family Valve Index (as of 2019), and the Steam Deck handheld device (as of 2022).
From January 2008 to June 2009, Valve owned the studio Turtle Rock Studios (then renamed to Valve South) to develop Left 4 Dead, after which the studio was closed, then re-established independently from Valve in February 2010. In November 2012, Valve acquired Star Filled Studios. In January 2017, Valve acquired Impulsonic. In April 2018, Valve acquired Campo Santo Productions.
Credited on 43,081 Games from 1998 to 2024
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| Dredge: Complete Edition (2024 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch...) |
| Fantasy Valley (2024 on Macintosh, Linux, Windows) |
| Femdom Farm (2024 on Windows) |
| Intravenous Collection (2024 on Windows) |
| Intravenous II (2024 on Windows) |
| Intravenous II: Supporter Bundle (2024 on Windows) |
| Real Life Day: Threesome (2024 on Windows) |
| Strangling a Snake Tale (2024 on Windows) |
| The Crimson Diamond (2024 on Windows, Macintosh) |
| Banishing You (2024 on Linux, Windows, Macintosh) |
| Erogoddess: Asgard (2024 on Windows, Linux) |
| Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (2024 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One...) |
| Zhong Fu Yongzhe Chuan (2024 on Windows) |
| Beneath the Cherry Blossom Tree (2024 on Linux, Windows, Macintosh) |
| Catgirl Aim Trainer (2024 on Windows) |
| Silk Suki: Chat Messaging Game (2024 on Windows) |
| A Crown of Thorns (2024 on Windows) |
| Family Secrets: Sweet Sister (2024 on Windows) |
| MWNeus (2024 on Linux, Windows, Macintosh...) |
| Old School RPG (2024 on Windows) |
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History +
- December 17, 2022
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Valve's Linux-based handheld gaming device, the Steam Deck, ships in Asia.
- February 25, 2022
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Valve's Linux-based handheld gaming device, the Steam Deck, ships in North America and Europe.
- November 26, 2019
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The Steam Controller production is discontinued.
- June 28, 2019
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The first units of Valve Index, a family of virtual reality hardware, are released.
- January 12, 2017
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Impulsonic Inc. announces that they have been acquired by Valve.
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Trivia +
The German online magazine 4Players named Valve as #2 Best Developer of 2007 and Best Developer of 2011.
The company was named "Developer of 2008" by the online gaming magazine GameSpy.
Address in 2003:
Valve, LLC
520 Kirkland Way, Ste 201
Kirkland, WA 98033
Postal address:
P. O. Box 1688
Bellevue WA 98009
Related Web Sites +
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Valve Corporation
official site -
Welcome to Steam
Official Steam website, Valve's online content delivery system -
Steam Community
Valve's fledgling social network built around the Steam and its Friends & Groups functionality. Also includes Steam and game statistics. -
Valve Developer Community
A wiki for people developing games or mods using Valve's Source engine. -
Wikipedia: Valve Corporation
article in the open encyclopedia about the company -
NZMac Review: Steam
A (largely) unscored review of the Macintosh version of Steam by NZMac, a New Zealand Apple site (May 17, 2010).
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