Valve Acquires Turtle Rock Studios

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Valve has snapped up Left 4 Dead (PC, X360) developer Turtle Rock Studios, the company announced today.

The studio, responsible for parts of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and various Counter-Strike: Source maps, will remain in Orange County, California.

"We have been seeing very strong growth with Steam and Source, our content distribution and development platforms, up over 150% over the last 12 months. Given our expectations for Left 4 Dead and our long-standing relationships with members of the Turtle Rock team, this was an easy decision. It also gives us a base from which to expand our development activities in the Los Angeles area," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve.

Added Turtle Rock Studios CEO Michael Booth, "Valve has had great success bringing in projects and teams such as Team Fortress and Portal. As I spent time working and talking with the creators of those products over the past several years, it became clear that this was the right next step for myself, my colleagues at Turtle Rock, our customers, and our products."

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    January 10, 2008 8:48 AM

    I'm making a new mod for Half-Life 2. It's called Valve Please Hire Me - Source and it will be released when it's done and by when it's done I mean when Valve buys it and finishes it for me.

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      January 10, 2008 8:49 AM

      I'm not ragging on Turtle Rock, the guys who made Portal, or the guys who made TF. I'm just so jealous of them.

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        January 10, 2008 9:01 AM

        Has Valve acquired any studios prior to this? I'm interested to see whether they're able to do what EA can't -- give smaller developers access to more capital, without sacrificing the quality of the games they create.

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          January 10, 2008 9:07 AM

          Mod teams, if that counts.

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            January 10, 2008 11:20 AM

            You mean the Portal / Narbuncular Drop guys? Not the same thing... I'm talking about a full-on corporate purchase of another studio.

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              January 10, 2008 2:21 PM

              Also DoD, Counter Strike and Team Fortress groups. But I don't know of any studio purchase deals.

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          January 10, 2008 11:43 AM

          Team Fortress Software about 10 years ago.

          Not sure if that was an actual company or not though, but it's still similar...on a smaller scale.

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