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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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