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Portal is often cited as one of the greatest video games ever made. Excluding Steam download sales, over four million copies of the game have been sold since its release, spawning official merchandise from Valve including a model portal gun and plush Companion Cubes, as well as fan recreations of the cake.
Portal has since been repackaged on Windows as a standalone game in April 2008. [28] A Mac OS X client was introduced simultaneously with the release of the Steam client for that platform in May 2010; as part of its promotion, the game was released free of charge for both platforms during which at least 1.5 million players downloaded it. [29] [30]
However, NPD does not include sales on Valve's Steam platform. [234] Portal 2 was the best selling game in the U.K. in the first week of its release, the first number-one for a Valve game. [236] It retained the top spot during its second week. [237] Portal 2 was released a few days before the PlayStation Network outage.
Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.It is the developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the game franchises Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and Dota.
[29] After first discontinuing The Black Box, however, Valve released all the new material for individual download via Steam. [30] [31] [32] The Black Box was to be priced US$10 lower than The Orange Box which would have made it $39.95 on PC and $49.95 on console in the U.S. if it used The Orange Box launch price as a baseline. [33]
Steamworks made its debut on consoles with Portal 2 's PlayStation 3 release. Several features—including cross-platform play and instant messaging, Steam Cloud for saved games, and the ability for PS3 owners to download Portal 2 from Steam (Windows and Mac)—were offered. [327]
The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator Michael Barr will step down from his position in February after the new Trump administration takes over.
[4] [7] In the late 2000s, Valve released two zombie-themed first-person shooters focusing on cooperative gameplay with the Left 4 Dead series. The company continued to release multiplayer games with the launches of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, [6] both of which have large esports communities fostered by Valve. [8]