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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 ...
Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Ye…
One of this year's GDC highlights was a talk by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company's first chief ...
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Half-Life Publisher Sierra Almost Abandoned The Game Before Launch
Half-Life 1 kicked off one of the most influential video game franchises ever, as the title completely changed the way in ...
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The Dramatic Half-Life Deal That Altered The Fate Of Valve Forever
The terms of the deal, Harrington said, was that Valve would fund all but $1 million of the development costs of Half-Life's ...
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OG Half-Life publisher Sierra planned to “abandon” the game before Valve threatened them
The original Half-Life was almost abandoned by publisher Sierra On-Line before Valve threatened to reveal their unsavoury ...
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The legendary Half-Life Alyx NoVR team is making a new Valve inspired FPS game
With Half-Life 3 still just a potential twinkle in Gabe Newell’s eye, the return of Valve’s epochal PC shooter feels more like a pipe dream every day. The Steam maker did give us the excellent ...