Looking back on Valve’s record of repeated hits and the fact that most of us are playing our PC games under Steam’s monolithic shadow, it’s tempting to think that this was the only way history could’ve gone. 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 Valve in ruins, and we’ve got her work to thank for it… Read more.