A Cabal room in use at Valve Software. During the rise of Usenet, the term was used as a semi-ironic description of the efforts of people to maintain some order over the chaotic, anarchic Usenet community ( see backbone cabal ).

By the fourth beta version, Valve Software, the developer who created Half-Life, began assisting in the development of Counter-Strike.

On August 12, 2011, it was confirmed that a new Counter Strike game was in development at Valve Software and Hidden Path Entertainment, which also codevelops Counter-Strike: Source, going under the title Global Offensive.

Previous attempts by Valve Software with the Half-Life series, Ritual Entertainment with SiN Episodes and Telltale Games themselves with Bone were for a variety of reasons not considered successful implementations of the distribution model.

The same day Sam Lantinga announced that he will be joining Valve Software, he also announced that " it's time to unleash

Epic Games, Microsoft, and Valve Software all possess technology that allows Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers to play with PC gamers, leaving the decision of which platform to use to consumers.

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* Source ( game engine ), a proprietary game engine developed by Valve Software for Half-Life 2

After the company folded, people from Looking Glass went on to work at Ion Storm, Irrational Games, Harmonix, Mad Doc Software, Arkane Studios, Westwood Studios, Valve, and to found Floodgate Entertainment and Digital Eel, amongst other later studios.

Its developers were working on Team Fortress 2 as a standalone game, but were later hired by Valve Software and ported the original as a mod for Half-Life called Team Fortress Classic in April 1999.

Developers such as Blizzard Entertainment, id Software, Valve Software, Bethesda Softworks, Firaxis, Crytek, The Creative Assembly and Epic Games provide extensive tools and documentation to assist mod makers, leveraging the potential success brought in by a popular mod like Counter-Strike.

Later, the DoD team joined Valve Software and produced a standalone version published through Activision.

DMC was conceived by Valve as a tribute to id Software, and is essentially a remake of the multiplayer component of id's Quake.

The game was developed by Gearbox Software and Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Entertainment on November 1, 1999.

In a later interview, Pitchford stated that he believed that Valve Software offered Gearbox the chance to make a Half-Life expansion was from a wish " to focus on their future titles ".

Opposing Force was also published as part of Sierra's Half-Life: Generation compilation in 2002, and as part of Valve Software and Electronic Arts ' Half Life 1: Anthology on September 26, 2005.

* PowerPlay ( technology ), a defunct standard for networked video gaming headed by Valve Software and Cisco Systems

In late 2009, the Clutch song " Electric Worry " was used in a commercial to promote the video game Left 4 Dead 2 created by Valve Software.

In June 2004, Valve Software announced in a press release that the FBI had arrested several people suspected of involvement in the source code leak.

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* Team Fortress 2 is a stand-alone multiplayer game created by the original designers who now work for Valve Software.

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It is developed by Nexon Corporation with oversight from license-holder Valve Corporation, and is an attempt to increase market share of Valve's games in the Asian gaming market.

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In 2007, he provided voice work for the 2K Games / Starbreeze Studios video game The Darkness and provided voice work for the Valve video games Portal and Left 4 Dead.

* Valve Anti-Cheat, anti-cheat software for online games

* Valve Developer Community, the official wiki for developers of games and mods based on the popular computer game Half-Life 2

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Later mod making tools include The Elder Scrolls Construction Set which shipped with Morrowind, the Aurora toolset which was included with Neverwinter Nights, FRED and FRED2, the mission editors for Freespace and Freespace 2 respectively, the Obsidian tool set for Neverwinter Nights 2, the Garden of Eden Creation Kit SDK for Fallout 3 and the Valve Hammer Editor which is used to create maps for Half-Life, Half-Life 2 and various other games based on the Source engine ( older versions also supported the Quake engine ).

CrossOver Games, announced on 10 March 2008, was a new product that let the users play a broad range of games, " particularly games with a lot of replayability such as MMOs like World of Warcraft and the range of games from Valve e. g., Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and so on ".

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* September 12 — Valve releases the first stable version of Steam, which would replace the WON system that has been used for Counter-Strike and other Valve games a year later.

HDR is now part of all Valve games.

Several other games use the Source engine, including Day of Defeat: Source and Counter-Strike: Source, both of which were also developed by Valve.

This was demonstrated in 2010, when Valve updated all of their core Source games to the latest engine build.

: In April 2010 Valve released all of their major Source games on Mac OS X.

All future Valve games will be released simultaneously for Windows and Mac.

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It is used to distribute games and related media online, from small independent developers to larger software houses ; Valve has also announced plans to expand the service to include non-gaming software in the near future.

Although Valve never releases sales figures, Stardock, former owner of competing platform Impulse, estimated in 2009 that Steam had a 70 % share of the digital distribution market for video games.