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.
Their franchises include the Half-Life / Portal universe, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and DotA (except the original).
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 46,632 Games from 1998 to 2025
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| Dark Deity II (2025 on Windows) |
| Humiliation Dungeon Survivors (NSFW) (2025 on Windows) |
| Iron Saga VS (2025 on Windows) |
| Kaiserpunk (2025 on Windows) |
| Kaiserpunk: Supporter Edition (2025 on Windows) |
| American MILF (NSFW) (2025 on Windows) |
| Assassin's Creed: Shadows (2025 on Windows, Macintosh, PlayStation 5...) |
| Assassin's Creed: Shadows (Digital Deluxe Edition) (2025 on Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series) |
| Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land (2025 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One...) |
| Bleach: Rebirth of Souls (2025 on Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5...) |
| Ginger (2025 on Windows) |
| Hentai Natsuki (NSFW) (2025 on Windows) |
| Suvi: The Blossoming Lust (NSFW) (2025 on Windows) |
| Wreckfest 2 (2025 on Windows) |
| Girlfriend Strip Blackjack (NSFW) (2025 on Windows) |
| Find Love or Die Trying: Til Death Do Us Part (2025 on Linux, Windows) |
| Incest Story: Mother and Aunt (NSFW) (2025 on Windows) |
| Monster Women Suvivors (NSFW) (2025 on Windows) |
| Real Hentai Situation! DT (NSFW) (2025 on Windows) |
| Reignbreaker (2025 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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