Valve

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Valve (sometimes stylized VALV^E; officially Valve Corporation, and formerly Valve Software) is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 and based in  Bellevue, Washington. The company's debut title, Half-Life, 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.

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

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

Today, Valve is composed of over 70 of the industry's leading artists, programmers, and writers. In the company's twenty-year history, it has risen from "unlikely new entry" to industry leader, producing a string of best-selling and critically-acclaimed PC entertainment products and technologies.

Products

GoldSrc games Half-Life Half-Life: Opposing Force Half-Life: Blue Shift Counter-Strike Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Condition Zero Deleted Scenes Day of Defeat Team Fortress Classic Ricochet	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 Dota Underlords Dota 2 - formerly runs 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 that contains Half-Life 2, Episode One, Episode Two, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. Also available on PC. Left 4 Dead () Left 4 Dead 2 () Portal 2 (Console) (, ) Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Console) (, ) Portal Companion Collection - A package which contains Portal, Portal: Still Alive and Portal 2. Only for Nintendo Switch.	Media Zombie Movie - (created by 2Chums Moving Pictures - essentially two then-Valve employees) Day of Defeat: Prelude to Victory Half-Life 2 Trailer Half-Life 2: Episode One Trailer HL2:EP1 - Launch Teaser 1 HL2:EP1 - Launch Teaser 2 HL2:EP1 - Launch Teaser 3 HL2:EP1 - Launch Teaser 4 Half-Life 2: Episode Two Trailer DoD Jagd Trailer DoD Colmar Trailer Portal Trailer Team Fortress 2 Trailer Introducing Artifact See more media on SFM - Official Valve Shorts section	Hardware Steam Controller Steam Machines Steam Link Valve Index Steam Deck Software Source Filmmaker Source 2 Filmmaker SteamOS

Business

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• Source Engine
• Licensing Source & Source 2 Engine
• Steam Publishing
• Steamworks
• Cyber Cafe Program

External links

• Official website
•  Valve Corporation's Wikipedia entry
•  Official YouTube Channel - @Valve
•  Official X (formerly Twitter) Account - @valvesoftware
• Valve's GitHub page

See also

• Campo Santo - Subsidiary of Valve
• Valve in the press
• Organization category