Valve Corporation
American video game development and digital distribution company
(Redirected from Valve Software)
Valve Corporation is an American video game developer and digital distributor company in Bellevue, Washington. It was founded in 1996 by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, two Microsoft employees in the past. The company is widely known for Steam and its critically acclaimed first-person shooter series, Half-Life, with the first being released in 1998. Also, the company develops the SteamOS,[2] upon which their all-in-one handheld hardware, called Steam Deck, released in February 2022 was built.[3]
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Type | Private company |
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Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 2 offices |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Gabe Newell (CEO) |
Number of employees | ~330[1] (2013) |
Subsidiaries | Valve S.a.r.l. |
Website | www |
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ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Dudley, Brier (2013-11-04). "A glimpse of Valve's Steam Machine, controller design and hardware plans". Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ↑ What is SteamOS? Tom's Guide
- ↑ Everything we know about Valve's new handheld gaming device