of his own. After two years working with a small team on this project, he moved to South Korea in 2008 to work with a business named FIX Korea who provided funding for further development. Le's new game was later revealed to be Tactical Intervention, a game similar in style to Counter-Strike created with a modified version of Valve's Source engine. In October 2013, he joined Facepunch Studios, where he worked on Rust. He left Facepunch Studios in February 2018. In March 2018, he joined Pearl Abyss to start working on a new project for the game studio that made the MMORPG Black Desert Online. Recognition In 2003, a GameSpy editorial cited Minh Le as the most important reason Half-Life was still popular five years after it was released. IGN ranked Jess Cliffe and Minh Le as number 14 in their "Top 100 Game Creators of All Time" list. References External links Canadian computer programmers Canadian people of Vietnamese descent Canadian software engineers Canadian video game designers Vietnamese engineers Living people Simon Fraser University alumni Valve Corporation people Video game programmers Year of birth missing (living people)