Valve Corporation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-20

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation


00:01:04 1 History
00:01:13 1.1 Founding and incorporation
00:02:02 1.2 iHalf-Life/i
00:03:06 1.3 Source
00:04:04 1.4 Acquisitions and awards
00:05:06 1.5 Network intrusions
00:06:02 2 Games
00:07:15 3 Steam
00:09:13 4 Other projects
00:09:23 4.1 PowerPlay
00:11:06 4.2 Steam Machine
00:12:34 4.3 Pipeline
00:13:14 4.4 J. J. Abrams collaboration
00:13:36 4.5 HTC Vive
00:14:03 5 Finances
00:14:48 6 Organizational structure
00:16:11 7 Legal disputes
00:16:20 7.1 iValve Corporation v. Vivendi Universal Games/i
00:18:28 7.2 iValve Corporation v. Activision Blizzard/i
00:19:14 7.3 iDota/i intellectual property ownership
00:21:59 7.4 iACCC v. Valve Corporation/i
00:23:48 7.5 iUFC Que Choisir v. Valve Corporation/i
00:24:11 7.6 iA.M. v. Valve Corporation/i
00:24:32 7.7 Skins gambling
00:25:49 7.8 Anti-competitive practices
00:26:28 8 "Valve Time"



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Valve Corporation is an American video game developer, publisher  and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It is the developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 games.
Valve was founded in 1996 by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. Their debut product, the PC first-person shooter Half-Life, was released in 1998 to critical acclaim and commercial success, after which Harrington left the company. In 2003, Valve launched Steam, which accounted for around half of digital PC game sales by 2011. By 2012, Valve employed around 250 people and was reportedly worth over US$3 billion, making it the most profitable company per employee in the United States. In 2015, Valve entered the game hardware market with the Steam Machine, a line of third-party built gaming PCs running Valve's SteamOS operating system.