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Predecessor. Valve Software. Valve Corporation, often referred to as Valve Software or simply Valve, and stylized as VALVE, is an American video game and digital distribution developer based in Bellevue, Washington.[2] Their first game, Half- Life, was highly acclaimed and since they have gone on to develop more franchises, including Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress, as well as Portal, all of which are first- person shooters. Valve also developed the popular Steam content delivery client, which is now the market leader with over 1,1. Valve releases all of their games via Steam.
The Mr. Valve logo used from 1. Half- Life) to 2. Xbox version of Half- Life 2). Valve was founded on August 2. Microsoft employees, Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. They originally started out as an L.
Game Not Here? Edit. If you didn't find your game on this list, it doesn't mean the page for it hasn't been created. Use the search feature on the wiki to find the. Valve Corporation (also known as Valve Software, commonly referred to as Valve) is an American video game developer and digital distribution company headquartered in. Valve Corporation (tidigare Valve Software) är en amerikansk utvecklare och distributör av datorspel. Företaget ligger i Bellevue, Washington, USA och grundades. Valve is the developer of many acclaimed game franchises such as Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Portal, and Left 4 Dead. They are also responsible for the. Portal is a 2007 first-person puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve Corporation. The game was released in a bundle package called The Orange Box for Microsoft. Steam’d penguins? Is it a recipe for an exotic South Pole dish? Perhaps it’s one of those bizarre YouTube videos of penguins in a sauna cavorting with the Swedish.
Mr. Valve, also known as The Valve Guy, is the nickname used for the two mascots used by Valve for the introductory logos seen at the start of their games, and. Valve Corporation, often referred to as Valve Software or simply Valve, and stylized as VALV E, is an American video game and digital distribution developer based in. Company of Heroes 2 is a real-time strategy game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sega for the Microsoft Windows platform. It is the sequel to the. This article contains the list of maps for Team Fortress 2. Maps are the settings where gameplay takes place. According to the game universe, these.
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L. C. company based in Kirkland, Washington, however, after incorporation in 2. Valve moved from Kirkland to Bellevue. Following the success of Half- Life, the Valve team expanded their portfolio, creating mods, spin- offs, and sequels. Valve has accumulated rights to at least six different series which include Half- Life, Team Fortress, Portal, Counter- Strike, Left 4 Dead, and Day of Defeat. Valve is most noted for its support of the modding community. In fact, its games Counter- Strike, Team Fortress, and Day of Defeat, all started out as third- party mods before becoming full- fledged games. Valve distributes some community mods on their content delivery system, Steam.
Valve's answering machine message by Harry S. Robins. On January 1. Valve announced the acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios,[6] who previously worked with Valve on Counter- Strike: Condition Zero, porting the Counter- Strike to the Xbox and creating various maps for Counter- Strike: Source. They also worked on Left 4 Dead, providing an advanced AI system. Valve also notably headed Power. Play, a technological initiative designed to decrease latency whilst playing online computer games, but after 1.
Products and franchises. Edit. List of games. Edit. Notable games / series. Edit. Half- Life series. Edit. Picture of the Half- Life team around 1. Sierra Studios E3 1.
Press Kit. Half- Life box art. Possible blueprint from offices at Valve featured in the background images of the Half- Life instruction manual, presented like a BMRF blueprint. Valve began working on the first game of the Half- Life series soon after the company's formation, and settled on a concept for a horror- themed 3. D action game, using the Quake engine as licensed by id Software. Half- Life was a hit at the 1.
E3 convention, where its animation system and artificial intelligence were demonstrated. The game's success led to its first expansion pack, Half- Life: Opposing Force, which was developed by Gearbox Software, a company based in Plano, Texas. Randy Pitchford, founder of Gearbox, said in an interview that he believed Valve gave them the opportunity to produce a sequel to Half- Life to allow Valve to focus on future titles. The game was demonstrated at the 1. E3 convention, where new locations, characters, and the storyline were revealed.
On November 1. 6, 2. Half- Life 2, the sequel to the original game, was released. Following its release, the series was continued using a trilogy of episodic games. Half- Life 2: Episode One was the first of these, set around City 1. Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance must attempt to escape the city after a dark energy reactor core they damaged at the end of Half- Life 2 threatens to destroy the city. It was released on June 1, 2. The second episodic game, Half- Life 2: Episode Two, was released on October 1.
Episode One ended. This episode focuses on expansive environments, travel, and less linear play. It was released in The Orange Box along with Half- Life 2, Episode One, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. Half- Life 2: Episode Three is slated to be the third and final installment of the episodic expansions.[1. The game has, presumably, been in development since some time in 2. July of that year.[1. However, besides passing comments when pressed in interviews, very little is known about the game.
Day of Defeat. Edit. Day of Defeat began as a third- party Half- Lifemod in 2. Later, the Do. D team joined Valve Software and produced a standalone version published through Activision. Day of Defeat was officially released on May 1, 2. It features multiplayer gameplay that takes place during the European Theatre of World War II. It was converted over to the Steam delivery system in version 1.
Steam to play. Day of Defeat: Source, an updated version of Do. D, which moved Day of Defeat from Gold. Src to the Source engine, was released on September 2. As in the original, it features multiplayer game- play.
Counter- Strike series. Edit. Counter- Strike, released on September 1.
Counter- Strike was originally developed as a Half- Life modification. It soon grew into a commercial mod and was later advertised as a separate game in itself. It still uses and runs on the Half- Life game engine, Gold. Src. The follow- up to Counter- Strike, Counter- Strike: Condition Zero, was released on March 2. Gold. Src. Like its predecessor, Condition Zero is also a multiplayer game, with an added single- player mode. Development of Condition Zero began in 2. Rogue Entertainment.
However, Rogue's producer for the game, Jim Molinet, moved to Sony, therefore leaving the development up to Valve. Later, development was given to Gearbox so that Valve could focus on the development of Team Fortress 2. Counter- Strike: Source is a complete remake of Counter- Strike using the Source engine. As in the original, Counter- Strike: Source pits a team of counter- terrorists against a team of terrorists in a series of rounds. It was initially released as a beta to members of the Valve Cyber Café Program on August 1.
On August 1. 8, 2. Counter- Strike: Condition Zero and to those who had received a Half- Life 2 voucher bundled with some ATi.
Radeonvideo cards.[1. Team Fortress 2. Edit. Team Fortress Software, the creators of the mod Team Fortress, were employed by Valve in 1. Team Fortress 2. To tide fans over, a port of Team Fortress was made called Team Fortress Classic.
Finally, after a long development period, Team Fortress 2 was released on October 1. Steam as well as in The Orange Box. The game became free- to- play on Steam on June 2.
TF2's gameplay is focused around two opposing teams battling in rounds to achieve a target. These teams, Reliable Excavation & Demolition (RED) and Builders League United (BLU), represent two holding corporations that between them secretly control every government on the planet.[2. Players can choose to play as one of nine classes in these teams, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses. Portal series. Edit. Aperture Science Enrichment Center entrance. Portal is Valve's professionally- developed spiritual successor to the freeware game project Narbacular Drop, the 2. Digi. Pen, who are now all employed at Valve.[2.
Released on October 1. The Orange Box, however after its success it is now available separately on Steam. The game follows Chell, a test subject in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, who must use the Handheld Portal Device to navigate through nineteen Test Chambers, all the while being guided by a sinister AI who offers "consoling" advice.
On March 1, 2. 01. Portal was updated to tie in with an alternate reality game, which was eventually revealed to be promoting a full sequel, Portal 2. Portal 2 was officially announced on March 5, 2. Aperture Science Enrichment Center.
Left 4 Dead series. Edit. Using the Source engine, Valve set out to make a horror film inspired game that merges single- player games' character- driven narrative structure with multiplayer games' social interaction and high replayability.[2. From that idea, Left 4 Dead was born. When making Left 4 Dead, many aspects of the Source engine were changed, such as more realistically portraying hair and clothing, and improved physics interaction with enemies.
The Source engine was also improved to have smarter AI, lighting, cinematic visual effects, and dynamic color correction. After a three- year development process, Left 4 Dead was released on November 1. The game is set during the aftermath of an apocalyptic zombie pandemic, and pits its four protagonists against hordes of the infected. Left 4 Dead 2, the sequel to the original game, was released on November 1. Like the original, Left 4 Dead 2 is set during the aftermath of an apocalyptic pandemic, and focuses on four new survivors fighting against hordes of the infected. Development for Left 4 Dead 2 started shortly after the release of the first game. Valve built on ideas from the development team to make the next game "bigger and better".[2.
The Steam logo. The Steam store view. Valve announced its Steam content delivery system in 2. At the time, it looked to be a method of streamlining the patch process common in online computer games.
Steam was later revealed as a replacement for much of the dated framework of WON and Half- Life multiplayer and also as a distribution system for entire games since 2. It was released on September 1. As part of Steam, Valve developed the Valve Anti- Cheat system, an anti- cheat solution that prevented players from changing the game code to gain an advantage over other players. It is now implemented as a part of Steamworks, a publishing suite that gives developers access to every component of Steam.[3. The Mr. Valve logo used since 2. Episode One). Between 2. Valve was involved in a complex legal showdown with its publisher, Vivendi Universal (under Vivendi's brand Sierra Entertainment).
It officially began on August 1. Valve sued Sierra for copyright infringement, alleging that the publisher illegally distributed copies of their games to Internet cafes. They later added claims of breach of contract, accusing their publisher of withholding royalties and delaying the release of Counter- Strike: Condition Zero until after the holiday season.
Valve Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Valve Corporation (also known as Valve Software, commonly referred to as Valve) is an American video game developer and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, United States. Its Luxembourg- based business office subsidiary for European regions, Valve S.
Founded in 1. 99. Valve L. L. C. by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, the company has developed the critically acclaimed Half- Life, Counter- Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead video game series, alongside Dota 2. It also developed and maintains Source on which most of its games run, and the software distribution platform.
Steam, which has led to the Steam Machine, a line of pre- built gaming computers running Steam. OS. History. Founding and incorporation.
Valve was founded by former longtime Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington on August 2. Valve L. L. C., based in Kirkland, Washington on the Seattle Eastside. After incorporation in April 2. Bellevue, Washington, the same city in which their original publisher, Sierra On- Line, Inc., was based. Half- Life. After securing a license to the Quake engine through the help of friend Michael Abrash of id Software in late 1.
Newell and Harrington began working on Half- Life. Originally planned for release in late 1. Half- Life launched on November 1. Valve acquired TF Software PTY Ltd, the makers of the Team Fortressmod for Quake, in May 1. Team Fortress game.
The Team Fortress Classicmod, essentially a port of the original Team Fortress mod for Quake, was released for Half- Life in 1. Gearbox contributed much after the release of Half- Life. Gearbox Software is responsible for the Half- Life expansion packs, Half- Life: Opposing Force and Half- Life: Blue Shift, along with the home console versions of Half- Life for the Sega. Dreamcast and Sony. Play. Station 2 which included a third expansion pack called Half- Life: Decay, that enabled two- player split- screen co- op.
Source game engine. After the success of Half- Life, the team worked on mods, spin- offs, and sequels, including Half- Life 2. All current Valve games are built on its Source engine. The company has developed six game series: Half- Life, Team Fortress, Portal, Counter- Strike, Left 4 Dead and Day of Defeat. Valve is noted for its support of its games' modding community: most prominently, Counter- Strike, Team Fortress, and Day of Defeat. Valve has branched out with this tradition to continue developing Dota 2 as the standalone sequel to the Warcraft III mod.[6] Each of these games began as a third- party mod that Valve purchased and developed into a full game. They also distribute community mods on Steam.[7] Valve announced the Source 2 engine on March 3, 2.
Acquisitions and awards. Valve has grown both in scope and commercial value. On January 1. 0, 2. Valve announced the acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios.[9] On April 8, 2. Valve won The Escapist Magazine's March Mayhem tournament for the best developer of 2. Zynga in the semi- finals and Bio.
Ware in the final. In 2. 01. 2, the company acquired Star Filled Studios, a two- man gaming company to open a San Francisco office.[1. In August 2. 01. 3, however, Valve ended the operation when it was decided that there was little benefit coming from the arrangement.[1. Network intrusions.
Valve's internal network has been infiltrated by hackers three times, once in 2. Half- Life 2 was leaked onto the internet,[1. Newell's email account was compromised, and keyloggers were installed on several Valve systems.[1.
In 2. 01. 1 the Steam customer databases and official forums were compromised.[1. On September 2. 01. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.[1. Legal disputes. Valve Corporation v. Vivendi Universal Games.
Between 2. 00. 2 and 2. Valve was involved in a complex legal showdown with its publisher, Vivendi Universal Games (under Vivendi's brand Sierra Entertainment). It officially began on August 1. Valve sued Sierra for copyright infringement, alleging that the publisher illegally distributed copies of their games to Internet cafes. They later added claims of breach of contract, accusing their publisher of withholding royalties and delaying the release of Counter- Strike: Condition Zero until after the holiday season.
Vivendi fought back, saying that Gabe Newell and marketing director Doug Lombardi had misrepresented Valve's position in meetings with the publisher. Vivendi later countersued, claiming that Valve's Steam content distribution system attempted to circumvent their publishing agreement. Vivendi sought intellectual property rights to Half- Life and a ruling preventing Valve from using Steam to distribute Half- Life 2. On November 2. 9, 2. Judge Thomas Samuel Zilly of the U.
S. District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled in favor of Valve. Specifically, the ruling stated that Vivendi Universal and its affiliates (including Sierra) were not authorized to distribute Valve games, either directly or indirectly, through cyber caf. Г©s to end users for pay- to- play activities pursuant to the parties' publishing agreement. In addition, Judge Zilly ruled that Valve could recover copyright damages for infringements without regard to the publishing agreement's limitation of liability clause.[1. Valve posted on the Steam website that the two companies had come to a settlement in court on April 2. Electronic Arts announced on July 1.
Valve in a multi- year deal to distribute their games, replacing Vivendi Universal from then onwards.[2. As a result of the trial, the arbitrator also awarded Valve $2,3. Valve Corporation v. Activision Blizzard. In April 2. 00. 9, Valve sued Activision Blizzard, which acquired Sierra Entertainment after a merger with its parent company, Vivendi Universal Games.
Activision had allegedly refused to honor the Valve v. Vivendi arbitration agreement. Activision had only paid Valve $1,9. Blizzard Entertainment v. Valve Corporation. Shortly after Valve filed its trademark for "Dota" to secure the franchising rights for Dota 2, Dot. A- Allstars, LLC, run by former contributors to the game's predecessor, Defense of the Ancients, filed an opposing trademark in August 2.
Dot. A All- Stars, LLC was sold to Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of Dot. A's platform Warcraft III and its world editor, in 2. After the opposition was overruled in Valve's favor, Blizzard itself filed an opposition against Valve in November 2. Dot. A- Allstars, LLC.[2.
On May 1. 1, 2. 01. Blizzard and Valve announced that the dispute had been settled. Valve retained the rights to the term "Dota" commercially, while Blizzard reserved the right for fans to use the trademark non- commercially, and changed the name of their Star. Craft II map, Blizzard DOTA, to "Blizzard All- Stars".[2. Blizzard All- Stars was adapted into a standalone game and renamed "Heroes of the Storm" on October 1. Games. Cancelled games. Incomplete games include a fairy RPG,[2.
Prospero[2. 9] and Stars of Blood.[3. It was also working with Arkane Studios on Return to Ravenholm (a. Half- Life 2: Episode Four)[3. The Crossing.[3. 4]Other ongoing projects.
Steam. Gabe Newell (foreground) and Doug Lombardi (background), 2. Valve announced its games platform Steam in 2. At the time it looked merely to be a method of streamlining the patch process common in online video games, but was later revealed as a replacement for much of the framework of the World Opponent Network service and also as a distribution/digital rights management system for entire games.
As of July 2. 01. Steam, and in January 2. Valve announced that it had surpassed 7. On August 1, 2. 01. Valve announced revisions to the Steam Subscriber Agreement (SSA) to prohibit class actionlawsuits by users against the service provider.
Alongside these changes to the SSA, the company also declared publicly the incorporation of Valve S. Luxembourg.[3. 6][3. Valve set up a physical office in Luxembourg Kirchberg, according to Valve's project manager Mike Dunkle, the location was chosen for e. Commerce capabilities and infrastructure, talent acquisition, tax advantages and its central geographic locations – most major partners are accessible with 5. Valve S. a. r. l is used to sell games to United Kingdom–based users to avoid paying the full 2. VAT.[3. 9] The tax loophole was expected to be closed on January 1, 2. In December 2. 01.
French consumer group UFC Que Choisir initiated a lawsuit against Valve for several of their Steam policies that conflict or run afoul of French law. One of the reasons was for using the tax loophole.[4. Steam Machine. Newell has been critical of the direction that Microsoft has taken with the Windows operating system in making it a closed architecture similar to Apple's products, and has stated that he believes that with changes made in Windows 8 are "a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space".[4. Newell identified the open- source Linux platform as an ideal platform for Steam, noting that the only thing holding back its adoption is the lack of games.[4. In 2. 01. 2, Valve announced that they were working on a console/PC hybrid for the living room which was unofficially dubbed by media as the "Steam Box".[4.
A precursor to such a unit is Steam. OS, a freely available Linux- based operating system that builds upon the Steam client functionality that includes media services, live streaming across home networks, game sharing within families, and parental controls.
Steam. OS was officially announced in September 2. Steam Machine platform[4. In early Summer 2. Valve announced that the company's own Steam. OS- powered Steam Machine would be delayed until 2.
Pipeline. In July 2. Valve officially announced Pipeline, an intern project consisting of ten high school students working together to learn how to create video game content.[4. Pipeline serves a dual purpose: to discuss and answer questions that teenagers often ask about the video game industry[4.