Portal 2 author Jay Pinkerton is again at Valve

It seems as if Jay Pinkerton has returned to Valve after spending a 12 months away from the corporate. Some sharp-eyed redditors and Twitter customers seen that his identify was again on Valve’s ‘People’ web page earlier this week.

Pinkerton indicated that he left his writing job at Valve final June, following a raft of exits by long-time Valve writers like Marc Laidlaw and Eric Wolpaw. Pinkerton had labored with Valve since 2008, co-writing Portal 2 and contributing work to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, each Left 4 Dead titles, and the Team Fortress 2 comics sequence.

Before becoming a member of Valve, Pinkerton had labored on the relaunch of Cracked.com, and as managing editor of the National Lampoon.

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His profile on Valve’s People web page doesn’t make point out of his 13-month sabbatical from the corporate, but it surely’s price noting that his identify now seems below the obscure ‘Other Experts’ heading as a substitute of ‘Writing.’ ‘Other Experts’ occurs to be the place Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell’s identify seems.

It’s not clear what Pinkerton’s return to Valve signifies, and Pinkerton himself hasn’t commented publicly. He hasn’t used his public Twitter account since previous to his departure last year.