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Valve Corporation

American video game development and digital distribution company
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Valve Corporation is a member of the Linux Foundation and game – The German Games Industry Association.[1][2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Linux Foundation[3], game – The German Games Industry Association[4]
  • Country: United States[5]
  • Instance of: software company[6], video game publisher[7], computer manufacturer[8]
  • Founder: Gabe Newell[9], Mike Harrington[10]
  • Named after: valve[11]
  • Headquarters location: Bellevue[12]
  • Chief executive officer: Gabe Newell[13]
  • Commons category: Valve Corporation[14]
  • Industry: video game industry[15]
  • Inception: January 1, 1996[16]
  • Location of formation: Kirkland[17]
  • Official website: https://www.valvesoftware.com[18]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Valve Corporation[19]
  • Director / manager: Gabe Newell[20]
  • Product or material produced: video game[21], software[22]
  • Employees: 330[23], 360[24], 336[25], 350[26]
  • Legal form: privately held company[27]
  • Owner of: Steam[28], Half-Life[29], Portal[30]
  • Exact match: https://bestcompanywa.com/company/602290773/valve-corporation.html[31]
  • Copyright representative: reproduction right not represented by CISAC member[32], Valve Corporation[33]
  • Has works in the collection: Museum of Modern Art[34]

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Publisher[35]

  • Country: US[36]

  • Community tags: distributor, steam, united states, vgm, video game music[37]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e6ad2f00-9ea0-4206-ba14-27cdaa2598a6[38]

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Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Valve Corporation include Valve Clothing Pack[39], a downloadable content[40].

Why It Matters

Valve Corporation has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Entities named for it include Valve Clothing Pack[39], a downloadable content[40].

Related Entities

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . Museum of Modern Art online collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [3] ↑ . linuxfoundation.org. Retrieved . linuxfoundation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [4] ↑ . game.de. Retrieved . game.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Museum of Modern Art online collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . PC Gamer. Retrieved . pcgamer.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . PC Gamer. Retrieved . pcgamer.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . PC Gamer. Retrieved . pcgamer.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . Museum of Modern Art online collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Museum of Modern Art online collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . moma.org. Retrieved . moma.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [35] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [38] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  2. 6w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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