Valve operates as a slightly closed shop, rarely granting staff interviews and keeping community engagement to a minimum. The studio's latest game, Deadlock, was even released semi-covertly with no official confirmation until the cat was well and truly out of the bag (which may have been some inspired marketing). Valve people, generally speaking, keep their thoughts within Valve. So Valve engineer Fletcher Dunn is a brave soul: some might even say foolhardy.
Dunn is an extraordinarily overqualified man who...