Valve

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Valve (sometimes stylized VALV^E; officially Valve Corporation and previously Valve Software) is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 and headquartered in  Bellevue, Washington. The company's debut title, Half-Life, won more than 50  Game of the Year awards and was named “Best PC Game of All Time” in the November 1999, October 2001 and April 2005 issues of  PC Gamer, the world's best-selling PC gaming magazine.

The company's portfolio of entertainment properties includes Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Left 4 Dead, Day of Defeat and Team Fortress. Valve's product catalog is responsible for more than 20 million retail units sold worldwide and more than 80% of the PC online action market.

As well as producing best-selling entertainment titles, Valve is a developer of cutting-edge technologies such as the Source game engine and Steam, a broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital content.

Today, Valve is made up of more than 70 of the industry's leading artists, programmers and writers. In its 25-year history, the company has gone from “unlikely new entrant” to industry leader, producing a range of best-selling and critically acclaimed PC entertainment products and technologies. You can see what's happening to you.

Products

GoldSrc games Counter-Strike Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Condition Zero Deleted Scenes Deathmatch Classic Day of Defeat Half-Life Half-Life: Opposing Force Half-Life: Blue Shift Ricochet Team Fortress Classic	Source games Alien Swarm Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Day of Defeat: Source Half-Life: Source Half-Life Deathmatch: Source Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Half-Life 2: Episode One Half-Life 2: Episode Two Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead 2 Portal Portal 2 Team Fortress 2	Source 2 games Artifact Counter-Strike 2 Deadlock Dota Underlords Dota 2 - Previously, it ran on Source Half-Life: Alyx Robot Repair - Included in The Lab SteamVR Home
Console Ports Half-Life (PS2) Half-Life: Decay (PS2) Counter-Strike (Xbox) Half-Life 2 (Xbox) The Orange Box (Console) - A package containing Half-Life 2, Episode One, Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2. Also available for PC. Left 4 Dead () Left 4 Dead 2 () Portal 2 (Console) (, ) Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Console) (, ) Portal Companion Collection ()	Media Zombie Movie - (created by 2Chums Moving Pictures - basically two Valve employees at the time) Day of Defeat: Prelude to Victory Half-Life 2 trailer Half-Life 2: Episode One trailer HL2: Episode One Launch Trailer (1 2 3 4) Half-Life 2: Episode Two Trailer DoD Jagd Trailer DoD Colmar Trailer Portal Trailer Team Fortress 2 Trailer Left 4 Dead 2 - Teaser Portal 2 - Teaser (Co-op Trailer) CS:GO Trailer (Launch Trailer) Introducing Artifact Half-Life: Alyx (Announcement Trailer, Gameplay Video - 1 2 3) Counter-Strike 2 - Launch Trailer Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary (SIGGRAPH 2000, E3 2002, E3 2003 Demo) View all official Source Filmmaker videos from Valve	Hardware Steam Controller Steam Machines Steam Link Valve Index Steam Deck Steam Frame (upcoming) Software Steam Source Filmmaker Source 2 Filmmaker SteamOS  Proton

Business

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• GoldSrc
• Source Engine (See Features)
• Source 2
• Source and Source 2 engine licensing
• Steam publication
• Steamworks
• Cyber Cafe Program

External Links

• Official website
•  Valve Corporation's Wikipedia entry
•  Official YouTube channel - @Valve
•  Official X (Twitter) account - @valvesoftware
• Valve's GitHub page

See also

• Campo Santo - Valve subsidiary
• Valve in the press
• Organization category