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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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The Video Game Industry Failed Monolith Productions
The closure of Monolith Productions, an innovative video game developer, shows what’s wrong with an industry in which game ...
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" ...