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Writer for Portal and Half-Life Leaves Valve

February 20, 2017 by Jordan Coetsee

Erik Wolpaw has officially departed from the company.

You may be familiar with the work of Erik Wolpaws. He’s a writer, and he’s worked on huge titles like Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Half-Life.

Well, co-founder of Valve, Marc Laidlaw shared Erik’s departure from the company via a tweet.

Wolpaw has had quite the history with Valve. Aside from having worked on the high profile classics mentioned above, he also originally co-founded the site Old Man Murray with another Valve employee Chet Faliszek before eventually making his way to the development studio

Allegedly, he is still working on Psychonauts 2 as a writer, but his reasons for leaving the company are still unknown.

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