Monica Harrington was the hidden figure of Valve in its critical early years | The DeanBeat

Monica Harrington at GDC 2025.
It’s funny how people slip out of history. The story of Valve’s formation in its critical early years and how it made the original Half-Life is an inspiring one. I was one of the people who attempted to capture the story of the storytelling shooter game, but my relatively short story in 1998 for the Wall Street Journal left a key contac…Read More

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