Overview
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.
In September 2003 the company launched the digital distribution platform Steam, which has become the market leader in the online distribution of PC 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.
In November 2012, the company acquired
Star Filled Studios. In April 2018, Valve acquired
Campo Santo Productions LLC.
Also Known As
- Valve L.L.C. (from 1996 to 2003)
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Trivia
The German online magazine 4Players named Valve as #2 Best Developer of 2007 and Best Developer of 2011.
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