[STEAM] Celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman dies at age 62

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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

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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

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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

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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

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with Brian Fargo, Jay Patel, and Troy Worrell in 1983. The company created franchises like

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, Fallout, and Baldur’s Gate. At Interplay, Heineman designed

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and

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while also programming ports of classics like Wolfenstein 3D and Battle Chess.

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