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{{Infobox Company| company_name = Valve Corporation| foundation = [Kirkland, Washington, United States (1996)], USA| key_people = Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director ([2005)]| products =
Half-Life Team Fortress Classic Team Fortress 2Counter-Strike Day of Defeat Deathmatch Classic Steam (content delivery)
Half-Life 2 Source engine
Valve Anti-Cheat [video game developer based in Bellevue, Washington, USA, made famous by its first product,
Half-Life, which was released in November 1998. The company has followed
Half-Life's success by developing
mod (computer gaming), spin-offs, and sequels including
Half-Life 2. Only two fully produced games,
Half-Life,
Half Life 2, have been released by Valve, along with a number of episodic, multiplayer, expansion, and campaign titles including:
Half Life 2: Episode 1,
Half Life 2: Episode 2,
Portal,
Team Fortress Classic,
Team Fortress 2,
Counter-Strike,
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero,
Counter-Strike: Source,
Day of Defeat,
Day of Defeat: Source,
Ricochet,
Half-Life 2: Death Match,
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast,
Half-Life: Blue Shift and
Deathmatch Classic.
Half-Life
Long-time
Microsoft employees
Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded Valve on 1996-09-24.http://storefront.steampowered.com/Steam/Marketing/message/1171/ After securing a license to the
Quake engine (through the help of friend
Michael Abrash of id Software) in late 1996, they commenced working on
Half-Life. Originally planned for release in late 1997,
Half-Life launched on
1998-11-19. Valve acquired TF Software PTY Ltd. in May of 1998, the makers of the
Team Fortress Mod (computer gaming) for
Quake with the intent to create a standalone
Team Fortress 2 game. The
Team Fortress Classic Mod (computer gaming), essentially a port of the original
Team Fortress quake mod, was released for
Half-Life in
1999.
Team Fortress 2 was released
2007-10-09, bundled with
Half-Life 2: Episode Two along with a game called
Portal (video game).
Valve continued work on
Half-Life, releasing several more extensions to the game and collaborated with other developers to porting it to other platforms. They also took on-board the development of the highly popular
Counter-Strike and
Day of Defeat Half-Life mods.
Steam
Valve announced its Steam (content delivery) content delivery system in
2002. At the time, it looked to be a method of streamlining the patch (computing) 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.
Between 2002 and 2005, Valve was involved in a complex legal showdown with its publisher,
Vivendi Universal (under Vivendi's brand Sierra Entertainment). It officially began on August 14
2002 when 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. VUG sought
intellectual property rights to
Half-Life and a ruling preventing Valve from using Steam to distribute
Half-Life 2.
On November 29 2004, Judge Thomas S. Zilly of U.S. Federal District Court in Seattle, Washington ruled in favor of Valve Corporation. 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 cafés to end users for pay-to-play activities pursuant to the parties' current 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.http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/09/20/news_6107712.html Valve posted on the Steam website that the two companies had come to a settlement in court on
April 29 2005.http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=413 Electronic Arts announced on
July 18, 2005 that they would be teaming up with Valve in a multi-year deal to distribute their games, replacing Vivendi Universal from then onwards.http://www.eagames.com/redesign/editorial.jsp?src=valve_071805
As of
September 2, 2007 over :Category:Steam products are available on Steam, and there are approximately 13 million active users.
See also
References
External links
- Official Homepage of Valve Corporation
- Official Steam Site
{{Infobox Company| company_name = Valve
Corporation| foundation = [Kirkland, Washington,
United States (1996)], USA| key_people =
Gabe Newell, co-founder and
managing director ([2005)]| products =
Half-Life Team Fortress Classic Team Fortress 2Counter-Strike Day of Defeat Deathmatch Classic Steam (content delivery) Half-Life 2 Source engine
Valve Anti-Cheat [video game developer based in
Bellevue, Washington, USA, made famous by its first product,
Half-Life, which was released in November
1998. The company has followed
Half-Life's success by developing mod (computer gaming), spin-offs, and
sequels including
Half-Life 2. Only two fully produced games,
Half-Life,
Half Life 2, have been released by Valve, along with a number of episodic, multiplayer, expansion, and campaign titles including:
Half Life 2: Episode 1,
Half Life 2: Episode 2,
Portal,
Team Fortress Classic,
Team Fortress 2,
Counter-Strike,
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero,
Counter-Strike: Source,
Day of Defeat,
Day of Defeat: Source,
Ricochet,
Half-Life 2: Death Match,
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast,
Half-Life: Blue Shift and
Deathmatch Classic.
Half-Life
Long-time Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded Valve on 1996-09-24.http://storefront.steampowered.com/Steam/Marketing/message/1171/ After securing a license to the
Quake engine (through the help of friend
Michael Abrash of
id Software) in late 1996, they commenced working on
Half-Life. Originally planned for release in late 1997,
Half-Life launched on
1998-11-19. Valve acquired TF Software PTY Ltd. in May of 1998, the makers of the
Team Fortress Mod (computer gaming) for
Quake with the intent to create a standalone
Team Fortress 2 game. The
Team Fortress Classic Mod (computer gaming), essentially a port of the original
Team Fortress quake mod, was released for
Half-Life in 1999.
Team Fortress 2 was released 2007-10-09, bundled with
Half-Life 2: Episode Two along with a game called
Portal (video game).
Valve continued work on
Half-Life, releasing several more extensions to the game and collaborated with other developers to
porting it to other platforms. They also took on-board the development of the highly popular
Counter-Strike and
Day of Defeat Half-Life mods.
Steam
Valve announced its Steam (content delivery) content delivery system in
2002. At the time, it looked to be a method of streamlining the
patch (computing) 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.
Between 2002 and
2005, Valve was involved in a complex legal showdown with its publisher, Vivendi Universal (under Vivendi's brand Sierra Entertainment). It officially began on August 14
2002 when 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. VUG sought intellectual property rights to
Half-Life and a ruling preventing Valve from using Steam to distribute
Half-Life 2.
On November 29 2004, Judge Thomas S. Zilly of U.S. Federal District Court in Seattle, Washington ruled in favor of Valve Corporation. 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 cafés to end users for pay-to-play activities pursuant to the parties' current 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.http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/09/20/news_6107712.html Valve posted on the Steam website that the two companies had come to a settlement in court on
April 29 2005.http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=413 Electronic Arts announced on July 18, 2005 that they would be teaming up with Valve in a multi-year deal to distribute their games, replacing Vivendi Universal from then onwards.http://www.eagames.com/redesign/editorial.jsp?src=valve_071805
As of September 2, 2007 over
:Category:Steam products are available on Steam, and there are approximately 13 million active users.
See also
References
External links
- Official Homepage of Valve Corporation
- Official Steam Site
Valve Software
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Valve
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Main Page - Valve Developer Community
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