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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 ...
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 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 ...
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Valve's DRM Origins Include An Exec's 19-Year-Old Pirate Nephew
A fun myth to hear about relates to a friend's uncle working at Nintendo to get the scoop on secrets. But what if your ...
How a Microsoft exec managed to pitch Microsoft Word through the genius tactic of being able to actually use it in a 'type-off' demanded by clients: 'I was the only one …
And like many of Valve's earliest employees, Harrington came there from Microsoft, where one of her major responsibilities ...
How a nephew’s CD burner inspired early Valve to embrace DRM
PC Gamer pulled that interesting tidbit from a talk Harrington gave at last week's Game Developers Conference. In her ...
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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 ...
Former Valve exec recounts the meeting where Half-Life's publisher almost killed the iconic FPS: "Half-Life would quietly die. I was stunned"
Ex-Valve CMO Monica Harrington, in a recent panel from the Game Developer's Conference, once again remembered an era where ...
‘It’s kind of frightening’: Tesla owners on alert after Las Vegas fires
No arrests had been made in the blazes that torched several Teslas the day before, and some owners were worried about ...
Valve literally gives Half-Life away now, but 27 years ago it was carefully crushing its angry pirates: "None of them had actually bought the game"
Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Issues delivered straight to your door or device Half-Life is $2 on ...
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Kellie Harrington says retirment has given her time to 'reconnect' with wife Mandy
Kellie Harrington has surprised herself with how much she has relaxed the reins of her training since retiring from boxing. Moving away from the sport has also allowed her to reconnect with her ...
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Edward F. Harrington
Edward Francis Harrington, age 91, of Tiverton, RI, formerly of Fall River, MA and Needham, MA, passed away, Friday, March 7, 2025 at Rhode Island Hospital. He was married to the late Ellen ...