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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 ...
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" ...
Check out this incredible Half-Life 2 gaming PC build with an Nvidia RTX 5090
This gaming PC uses custom 3D-printed panels, textured paint, and a top-spec Nvidia GeForce GPU to create a worthy PC to fight the Combine.
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Half-Life 3 is allegedly being playtested at Valve – please don’t give me hope
Valve is said to be testing the long-awaited Half-Life 3, giving fans hope that the game might actually release.
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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 ...
Steel Hunters is like a more tactical Titanfall, but as an extraction shooter it's undermined by boring loot
Wargaming's latest free-to-play shooter has some exciting tactical potential, but its loot game is too lightweight.
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 ...
Hands-on: Half-Life 2 with RTX-powered graphics looks gorgeous
PCWorld's Alex got to check out the new Half-Life 2 RTX on the latest Nvidia hardware and chat with the developers who made ...
Games Inbox: What Assassin’s Creed setting will be next?
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Surprisingly strong Future Games Show 2025. Dozens of upcoming games revealed
Yesterday's Future Games Show was exceptionally fruitful. We have collected for you in one place all the most important ...
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 ...
Half-Life: Alyx, VR’s first — and hopefully not last — killer app, turns 5
It’s trite to say this five years after launch, but Half-Life: Alyx felt like a door being kicked open, revealing what’s ...