based in bellevue, washington, valve has enjoyed a reputation as one of the most highly respected entertainment software and technology companies since our inception in 1996, with a decades-long track record in the industry for award-winning games, innovative digital distribution platforms, cutting-edge technologies, and top-tier talent.\\steam\valve is the creator of steam, the world's largest online gaming platform. steam turns any pc or mac into a gaming powerhouse by providing instant access to a huge library of titles, and by automatically keeping a user's games completely up to date. with an active user-base of over 75 million, steam also connects gamers with each other, making it easy to find friends, keep track of each other's gaming activity, and easily play games together. since its inception as a service for updating valve's own game counter-strike, steam has grown to become a service used world-wide, translated into 26 languages, and with content servers on every continent (save antarctica, but we're sure that's just a matter of time).
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