Valve Corporation is a video game development and digital distribution company founded in 1996. It created popular games like Half-Life and Portal as well as Steam, the largest digital distribution platform for PC games. Steam allows users to access their game libraries across devices and includes social features like chat, profiles, and workshops for user-created content. It has over 125 million active users per month and hosts major sales events that are very popular with customers.

2. Content
0 About Valve
0 History
0 The Logo
0 Games
0Steam – About Steam
Features
Create and Share
Steam Machine
0 Other Projects
0 SWOT

3. About
0 Valve Corporation is an American video game
development and digital distribution company based in
United States.
0 We’re always creating - Produce award-winning
games, leading-edge technologies as well as ground
breaking social platforms.
0 Valve is a working environment that is boss-free. An
environment where motivated and creative peers work
together.

5. History
0 Founded in 1996 by former Microsoft employees
Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, Valve created the
critically acclaimed Half-Life and Portal series, as well
as the software distribution platform Steam (released
in 2002) and the Source engine .

6. Gabe Newell
0 Co-Founder and Managing director
0 Forbes named Newell as "A Name You Should Know"
mainly for his work on Steam having partnerships with
multiple major developers
0 Net worth = $1.5 billion
0 March 2013, received the BAFTA Fellowship Award
( British Academy of Film and Television Art) )for his
contribution to the gaming community

12. Games
0 Half Life series
0 Team Fortress
0 Portal
0 Left for Dead
0 Dota 2
0 Counter Strike:Source

13. 0 Valve’s debut title, Half-Life, was released
in 1998. It won more than 50 game of the
year awards, and PC Gamer even called it
the best PC Game ever made.
0 Sold over 9.3 million copies over the past
decade
0 Its sequel sold 6.5 million
0 Counter strike sold 4.2 million
0 The Orange Box sold 3 million
0 Dota 2, 591839players online
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14. 1998 2010

15. "Open your mind. Open
your eyes."—Valve

16. Steam

17. About Steam
0 Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights
management, multiplayer, and communications
platform.
0 Steam provides the user with installation and
automatic management of software across multiple
computers, as well as community features.
0 The software provides a freely available application
programming interface (API), Steamworks, that
developers can take advantage of to integrate many of
Steam's functions within their software products.

18. Digital Distribution
0 Digital distribution describes the delivery of media
content such as audio, video, software and video
games, without the use of physical media usually over
online delivery mediums, such as the Internet.

19. Digital Rights Danagement
(DRM)

20. Store

21. Library
0 Store games
0 Either online or single player games

22. Social Community
0 Meet new
people, join
game groups,
form clans, chat
in-game and
more
0 With over 40
million
potential
friends

23. Profile

24. Workshop
0 User-created mods have always been one of the best
things about PC gaming. Unlike on consoles, people
can create mods for PC games and distribute them
online. For games where the developers have
added Steam Workshop integration – including Portal
2, Dota 2, and Skyrim – you can easily browse and
install mods with just a few clicks.

25. Steam Sales
0 The Steam Sales refer to annual discount events
0 Steam Summer Sale held at the start of summer
break and the Steam Holiday Sale during the holiday
season
0 During these events, a large selection of titles become
available for purchase at a discount price for limited
time
0 Many Steam customers tend to make impulse
purchases and overspend

27. Steam Stats

29. Steam Machines
(Hardware Platform)
0 Steam Machine is a line of pre-built PCs
that will be manufactured and
distributed beginning in 2014 by a
number of vendors using a range of
different design specifications outlined
by Valve Corporation.
0 Steam Machines will run SteamOS, an
open source Linux-based operating
system developed for Linux-compatible
Steam games as well as other
entertainment.
0 Some Steam Machines will also come
with Microsoft Windows installed. Most
pre-built Steam Machines will be
upgradeable and modular to varying
extents, much like traditional PCs..

30. SWOT

31. Strength
0 Free
0 Buys and play games from home
0 The first and the biggest gamer social platform
0 Easy to join Easy to use

32. Weakness
0 Need internet for the full experience

33. Opportunity
0 Steam Sales
0 More and more pc gamers
0 Widespread availability of internet
0 Steam Machine entering console market

34. Threat
0 Windows Live
0 Battle.net
0 EA Origin