Valve

Valve Corporation is a computer game developer that was founded in 1996. The company is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. The debut on the market of computer games by Valve was Half Life, which took place 2 years after the founding of the company. The game was very warmly received by the geek community around the world and was honored with numerous awards - PC Gamer magazine at the time named Half Life the best computer game of all time. Valve's next global success was the creation of Steam in 2003, a platform that remains popular to this day for distributing digital content and laying the groundwork for mobile app stores.