Valve
Valve (sometimes stylized VALVE; 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 twenty-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
Business
- 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