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Mike Harrington
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Born	N/A
Occupation(s)	Co-founder of Valve Lead programmer Webmaster

 

Mike Harrington was the co-founder of the game development company, Valve Corporation and a lead programmer of the game Half-Life.^[1]

Previously a games developer at Dynamix and a developer on the Windows NT operating system at Microsoft,^[2] Harrington founded Valve in 1996 with Gabe Newell, another former Microsoft employee: he and Newell privately funded Valve through the development of Half-Life.^[3] Half-Life became a game industry phenomenon, winning more than 50 Game of the Year Awards; it was also named the "Best PC Game of All Time" by PC Gamer Magazine, the leading PC Games magazine.

On January 15, 2000, after the success of Half-Life, Harrington dissolved his partnership with Newell and left Valve to take an extended vacation with his wife, Monica.

Harrington returned to the software industry in 2006, when he co-founded Picnik with long-time friend and former colleague Darrin Massena.

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External linksEdit

• Picnik - Mike Harrington's co-founded website
• Mike Harrington on Facebook