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Valve Corporation: History, Companies & Art

Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, hardware, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It is the developer of game franchises including Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and Dota, the software service Steam, and hardware including the…

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Valve Corporation topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Companies and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Valve Corporation.

Related topics
205
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
210
Extracted relationships
90
Concept neighborhoods
53
Bridge connections
210

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 79 topics
Legal disputes · 45 topics
Overview · 42 topics
Products · 31 topics
Structure · 8 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
August 24, 1996; 30 years ago (1996-08-24)
Founders
Gabe Newell · Mike Harrington
Industry
Video games
Owner
Gabe Newell (>50%)
Headquarters
Bellevue, Washington, U.S.
Formerly
Valve, L.L.C. (1996–2003)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Structure

Products

Legal disputes

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Valve Corporation connects Entity context

The extracted context around Valve Corporation shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Valve Corporation → Ancients, As, August, Blizzard, Blizzard All-Stars, Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft III, By, Chaos, Defense, DotA, DotA-Allstars, Eul, Feak, Guinsoo, Heroes, IceFrog, It, Kyle Sommer, League Another extracted example is Valve Corporation → Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Dota, GoldSrc, Half-Life, HTC Vive, Left 4 Dead, Portal, Proton, Source, Source 2, Source Filmmaker, Steam, Steam Controller (1st gen), Steam Controller (2nd gen), Steam Deck, Steam Frame, Steam Link, Steam Machine, SteamOS. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Valve Corporation

Top relations

related to Dota intellectual property ownership · 36
Valve Corporation → Ancients, As, August, Blizzard, Blizzard All-Stars, Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft III, By, Chaos, Defense, DotA, DotA-Allstars, Eul, Feak, Guinsoo, Heroes, IceFrog, It, Kyle Sommer, League
Products · 24
Valve Corporation → Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Dota, GoldSrc, Half-Life, HTC Vive, Left 4 Dead, Portal, Proton, Source, Source 2, Source Filmmaker, Steam, Steam Controller (1st gen), Steam Controller (2nd gen), Steam Deck, Steam Frame, Steam Link, Steam Machine, SteamOS
related to Source, Steam, and Half-Life 2 (2003–2010) · 9
Valve Corporation → Bellevue, By, Half-Life, In, Lincoln Square, Source, Valve, Washington, With
Subsidiaries · 3
Valve Corporation → Campo Santo, Valve GmbH, Valve S.a.r.l.
Founders · 2
Valve Corporation → Gabe Newell, Mike Harrington
Key people · 2
Valve Corporation → Gabe Newell (president), Scott Lynch (COO)
ASN · 1
Valve Corporation → .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…
Formerly · 1
Valve Corporation → Valve, L.L.C. (1996–2003)
Founded · 1
Valve Corporation → August 24, 1996; 30 years ago (1996-08-24)
Headquarters · 1
Valve Corporation → Bellevue, Washington, U.S.

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

valve steam games half-life game dota released valve's newell development vr announced machine company 2015 software washington team portal employees

Valve Corporation relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 90 structured relationships around Valve Corporation. Examples in this analysis include Valve Corporation → ASN → .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r… and Valve Corporation → Formerly → Valve, L.L.C. (1996–2003). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Valve CorporationASN.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…1.00infobox
Valve CorporationFormerlyValve, L.L.C. (1996–2003)1.00infobox
Valve CorporationFoundedAugust 24, 1996; 30 years ago (1996-08-24)1.00infobox
Valve CorporationFoundersGabe Newell1.00infobox
Valve CorporationFoundersMike Harrington1.00infobox
Valve CorporationHeadquartersBellevue, Washington, U.S.1.00infobox
Valve CorporationIndustryVideo games1.00infobox
Valve CorporationKey peopleGabe Newell (president)1.00infobox
Valve CorporationKey peopleScott Lynch (COO)1.00infobox
Valve CorporationNumber of employees336 (2021)1.00infobox
Valve CorporationOwnerGabe Newell (>50%)1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsCounter-Strike1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsDay of Defeat1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsDota1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsHalf-Life1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsLeft 4 Dead1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsPortal1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsTeam Fortress1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsHTC Vive1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsSteam Controller (1st gen)1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsSteam Controller (2nd gen)1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsSteam Deck1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsSteam Frame1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsSteam Link1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsSteam Machine1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsValve Index1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsGoldSrc1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsProton1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsSource1.00infobox
Valve CorporationProductsSource 21.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Valve Corporation bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Games, Steam and Half-life. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Valve Corporation
    • Games
    • Steam
    • Half-life
    • Announced
    • Released
    • Development
    • Dota
    • Sierra
    • Washington
    • Vr
    • Hardware
    • Agreement
  • valve corporation
    • Games
    • Steam
    • Washington
    • Half-life
    • Announced
    • Released
    • Development
    • Dota
    • Sierra
    • Vr
    • Hardware
    • Agreement
  • video game developer
    • Half-life
    • Steam
    • Valve
    • Announced
    • Development
    • Released
    • Games
    • First
    • Used
    • Machine
    • Software
    • Company
  • half-life
    • Portal
    • Games
    • Team
    • Vr
    • Left
    • Valve
    • Rights
    • Valve's
    • First
    • Sierra
    • Development
    • Steam
  • dota
    • Blizzard
    • Released
    • Fortress
    • Portal
    • Team
    • Left
    • Half-life
    • Valve
    • Rights
    • Machine
    • Games
    • Development
  • steam
    • Valve
    • Games
    • Announced
    • Released
    • Agreement
    • First
    • November
    • Valve's
    • Washington
    • Would
    • Court
    • Lawsuit
  • steam machine
    • Valve
    • Steam
    • First
    • Games
    • November
    • Announced
    • Released
    • Vr
    • Portal
    • New
    • Team
    • Software
  • steam deck
    • Valve
    • Games
    • Announced
    • Released
    • Agreement
    • First
    • November
    • Valve's
    • Washington
    • Would
    • Court
    • Lawsuit

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Valve Corporation, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Valve Corporation with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Valve CorporationHistory · splits 131 ⟂ 80
Valve CorporationLegal disputes · splits 165 ⟂ 46
Valve CorporationOverview · splits 168 ⟂ 43
Valve CorporationProducts · splits 179 ⟂ 32
Valve CorporationStructure · splits 202 ⟂ 9

Map overview Semantic statistics

Valve Corporation

Nodes211
Edges210
Triples90
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009479
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Valve Corporation to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Valve Corporation · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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