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Company Profile
Valve
Website
www.valvesoftware.com
About
Washington-based games developer founded by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. Responsible for Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, and Portal.
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Gabe Newell
Co-Founder and President
Articles featuring Valve
Hardware Costs
The Steam Deck OLED returns with up to $300 price increase
Valve notes rising memory, storage and broader hardware costs across global markets
New Offerings
Valve’s Steam Frame will support Android games out of the box
Developers can bring existing Android and Quest-style VR titles via standard APKs
Online Safety
US Congress calls on Twitch, Steam, Reddit, and Discord CEOs to testify on online radicalisation
The hearing is scheduled for October 8th 2025
Major Market
PGC San Francisco 2025 nears after US mobile gamers spend record-breaking $28bn
Monopoly Go was the highest-grossing game on mobile, while Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 took the console crown
Podcast | Episode 14
Supercell's Squad Busters goes global and why Steam does discoverability better than mobile | Week in Mobile Games podcast
The PocketGamer.biz podcast team give you the state of play every week. Here's where to get it and and what's inside this week's episode 14...
Week That Was
Week in Views - Squad Busters goes global, broken app stores, and Hill Climb Racing gets the LEGO treatment
The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
Place Search Ad Here
Mobile's broken app store discoverability
How Steam, Google Play and Apple's App Store compare and how platform holders prioritise ads over useful recommendations for users
Passionate Players
CS:GO reaches new player record as gamers aim to test Counter Strike 2
1.5 million gamers played concurrently on 25 March
Winning At Esports
What do mobile eSports games need to do to win?
eSports are on the rise and with mobile gaming taking the lead they're certain to take over there too. But what does a mobile eSports games need to succeed?
Mobile Dominance
The world’s top 10 game companies made $126 billion in 2021 from software, with mobile leading the charge
Tencent came out on top with $33 billion, three quarters of which came from mobile
News
Steam App sees major updates including remote downloads
Whilst Valve is well-known for dominating the PC digital marketplace, their new app update makes many features equally accessible for those on mobile.
Game Steaming
Steam mobile app receives major update with new beta
The new app is currently in beta
Excluding Exclusives
No exclusive titles for Steam Deck, says Valve
Steam Deck front page will feature only deck verified titles
Aggressive Pricing
Steam Deck pricing 'critical' to mobile space, says Valve's Gabe Newell
"Price point was secondary... and painful"
Gabe Boy
Valve reveals Steam Deck handheld, launching from $399 this year
The Steam Deck will begin shipping in December 2021
Codename Steampal
Valve to announce portable PC based on Nintendo Switch?
Expected to run Steam games via Linux
Hand It Over
Judge orders Valve to provide Apple with sales figures
As part of the iOS creators Fortnite battle with Epic
Join The Party
Apple tries to bring Valve into its dispute with Epic
The Fortnite creator recently took its battle to EU antitrust regulators
Beta Success
DOTA Underlords public beta reaches 1.5 million mobile downloads in seven days
Russia garnered the largest number with approximately 210,000 installs
Auto Chess
Valve’s first mobile game DOTA Underlords heads into open beta
Title based on the new Auto Chess craze
Linked Up
Steam Link finally available on the App Store
Game purchases have been taken out of the app to comply with Apple's guidelines
Company Roundup
Meet 31 of the top most exciting Washington state games companies
Get a chance to meet with the state's finest at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle on May 13th to 14th
Linked
Valve removes games purchasing from iOS Steam Link following App Store rejection
Pages now display a buy from PC option instead of a buy now option
Steam Blocker
Apple cites business conflicts as it rejects Valve’s Steam Link app
Mobile platform holder reverses decision to approve the the app
Linked In
Steam Link app lets you play your PC games on your mobile
Launches week of May 21st
Decked Out
Valve set to bring Source 2-powered card game Artifact to mobile in 2019
Title will be premium, not free-to-play
Bridge Constructor Portal
Valve licenses Portal IP to Headup Games for branded Bridge Constructor game
Bridge Constructor Portal is not the game we expected, but exactly the one we deserve
Things Don't Look Closer...
VR revolution pushed back to 2016 as Vive's launch slips
Looking further ahead
Steam Powered
Valve enters the virtual reality game with SteamVR at GDC 2015
Game developers invited to test it out at GDC 2015
Stateside
Death threats and dictatorships: Why 'ban happy' platform holders are good for no-one
What Newell-gate says about the power of platform holders
Opinion: Why Valve's move on hardware should be met with a warm welcome
It's time for a change
Valve goes bluesky; veteran coder Michael Abrash heading up wearable computing research
Through the looking glass brightly