Valve considered making a 'B title' before Half-Life, until an exec told Gabe Newell 'that's just not gonna work… the company will fail'
Harrington says Valve was headhunting developers in the late 90s, and one of the ideas linked to this was to work on another ...
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Valve invented the 'Game of the Year Edition' marketing strategy, former exec reveals
At GDC 2025, former Valve chief Monica Harrington explored the challenges of marketing a game, and how the Game of the Year ...
Steam's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew and his trusty CD burner
Harrington has a somewhat contentious relationship with Valve's origin story. In 2024, she said that her name had been erased ...
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Valve Used ‘Game of the Year’ Sticker to Turn Half-Life into a Success
Monica Harrington from Valve shared some interesting facts about the company during her talk at the GDC 2025. One of the most surprising stories was about how Valve struggled to sell Half-Life due ...
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Steam's Digital Rights Management (DRM) was introduced after the nephew of a Valve executive copied a game without permission.
The bottom line is that the authentication system worked really well.' After Monica Harrington's speech, Mike Harrington commented, 'When I heard my nephew's story, I thought at first ...
Valve leads considered making a "mediocre" game before Half-Life to build the team up, but original marketing exec said "if you do that, the company will fail"
"I told Gabe that I thought the only way that Half-Life was really going to work was if it was named Game of the Year" ...
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Valve Used This Hilarious Half-Life Trick To Boost Sales
Half-Life was apparently a trailblazer for a marketing trend that has become a staple of the video game industry, but the ...
A$AP Rocky's spring fits are just really nice to look at
If you want to give your fits some spring, like A$AP Rocky, go simple, chill and cream – and yes, you too will look and feel ...