Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted November 19, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted November 19, 2025 On Monday, veteran game developer Rebecca Ann Heineman died in Rockwall, Texas, at age 62 after a battle with adenocarcinoma. Apogee founder Scott Miller first This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up the news publicly on social media, and her son William confirmed her death with Ars Technica. Heineman’s GoFundMe page, which displayed a final message she had {LINK REMOVED}posted about entering palliative care, will now help her family with ******** costs. Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman was born in October 1963 and grew up in Whittier, California. She first gained national recognition in 1980 when she This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up the national Atari 2600 Space Invaders championship in New York at age 16, becoming the first formally recognized US video game champion. That victory launched a career This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up more than four decades and 67 credited games, according to MobyGames. Among many achievements in her life, Heineman was perhaps best known for co-founding This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up with Brian Fargo, Jay Patel, and Troy Worrell in 1983. The company created franchises like This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , Fallout, and Baldur’s Gate. At Interplay, Heineman designed This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up and This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up while also programming ports of classics like Wolfenstein 3D and Battle Chess. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/289136-steam-celebrated-game-developer-rebecca-heineman-dies-at-age-62/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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