But according to Monica Harrington, Valve's chief marketing strategist in its early years and then wife of studio co-founder Mike Harrington, we only barely avoided a world where Half-Life left ...

Half-Life was apparently a trailblazer for a marketing trend that has become a staple of the video game industry, but the idea was so simple.

PC Gamer pulled that interesting tidbit from a talk Harrington gave at last week's Game Developers Conference. In her remembering, Harrington's nephew had used funds she had sent for school supplies ...

Burned: Valve's founding chief marketing officer, Monica Harrington, recently shared her account of how the company became the leading provider of digital PC games. Harrington pushed for stricter ...

That's apparently what happened, according to former Valve chief marketing officer Monica Harrington. PC Gamer reports that Harrington told the unlikely Valve DRM origin story featuring her 19 ...

Valve co-founder and former chief marketing officer Monica Harrington was on a panel at the recent 2025 Game Developers Conference called "How Valve Became Valve: An Insider's Account." ...

TL;DR: Valve's "Game of the Year" edition was a marketing strategy invented to boost Half-Life sales, according to former executive Monica Harrington. Initially struggling despite critical acclaim ...

Monica Harrington, Valve's first chief marketing officer, said at the Game Developers Conference that publisher Sierra had the option for two more games, and after the first Half-Life became a ...

Ex-Valve CMO Monica Harrington, in a recent panel from the Game Developer's Conference, once again remembered an era where the company wasn't a monolithic force in PC gaming - it was instead a ...

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 ...