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Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 and based in Bellevue, Washington. The company’s debut title, Half-Life®, has won over 50 Game of the Year Awards and was named “Best PC Game Ever” in the November 1999, October 2001, and April 2005 issues of PC Gamer, the world’s best-selling PC games magazine.

Valve’s portfolio of entertainment titles also includes Half-Life® 2, Counter-Strike®, Day of Defeat®, Team Fortress®, and Portal™. This portfolio of titles accounts for over 20 million retail units sold worldwide, and Valve games account for over 80% of the PC online action market.

In addition to producing best selling entertainment titles, Valve is a developer of leading-edge technologies including the Source® game engine and Steam®, a leading platform for digital content with over 10 million registered users.

Today, Valve is composed of just over 120 of the industry’s best artists, programmers, and writers. In the company’s 10-year history, it has risen from “unlikely new entry” to industry leader, producing a string of best selling and critically acclaimed PC products and technologies.

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NVIDIA Corporation is the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies.

The Company creates innovative, industry-changing products for computing, consumer electronics, and mobile devices. The NVIDIA® graphics processing unit (GPU) and media and communications processor (MCP) brands include NVIDIA GeForce®, NVIDIA GoForce®, NVIDIA Quadro®, and NVIDIA nForce®. These product families are transforming visually-rich applications such as video games, film production, broadcasting, industrial design, space exploration, and medical imaging.

Additionally, NVIDIA invents and delivers industry-shaping technologies, including NVIDIA SLI™ technology, a revolutionary approach to scalability and increased performance; and NVIDIA PureVideo™ high-definition video technology.

www.nvidia.com

iGames, Inc., North America’s leading game center organization, was founded in 1996 in order to promote and develop the growth of the game center industry. iGames’ membership includes more than 900 Standard and Advantage member game centers, located in more than 20 countries.

iGames’ vision is to establish game centers as the driving force enabling the interactive entertainment industry to become the #1 form of entertainment around the world. iGames believes that in addition to the continuous development of a variety of games, the social environment and interaction provided by game centers is the key ingredient for expanding interactive entertainment to a very diverse and broad community of gamers.

iGames has established strong relationships with a wide group of game industry leaders to provide a variety of products, services and programs to support its members, comprised of independent and franchised game centers, and gamers. Some of the programs developed and/or facilitated by iGames include software licensing, hardware discounts, exclusive game launches, tournaments, and game nights.

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