Valve

Valve was founded in 1996, based in Bellevue, Washington, by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. The company itself is popular for many reasons, one of being Half Life, winner of over 50 game awards, as well as their Source Engine, widely utilized throughout games. The company has also bought and hired modding teams and developer companies, such as Turtle Rock Games, to add a variety of favorite titles, such as Garry's Mod, Left 4 Dead, the Team Fortress series, and the popular award winning Portal. media type="youtube" key="TluRVBhmf8w?fs=1" height="340" width="560"


 * Steam**

One of Valve's most popular innovations is Steam and the Steam Community, which acts as a platform for selling games, along with socially keeping track of players met in game or through other means. Steam has over one thousand games in sale, all available by download after purchase, which allows both convenient and safe transactions for games. Steam possesses games not specifically from valve as well, selling titles from over 45 companies and teams, in addition to modding and indie game producer titles. Steam also recently has integrated accessibility to games on the Mac, as well as innovations to updating drivers through Steam.


 * Valve Time**

A standard that both fans and the company itself has taken to, is Valve time. Valve time on a standard is that anything Valve announces, presents, says or does will be late. This assumption is made based off of the constant basis of Valve releasing late games and updates, which has been deemed justly. It is on very rare occasion that Valve will not release something less than an hour before being late, sometimes being weeks or even months late.

Refrences

[] - Valve Homepage [] - Steam announcement of acquiring Turtle Rock Studios. [] - Steam has over 30,000,000 Accounts. [] - Valve Time