Half-Life Portal is the biggest German website for Half-Life games, mods and other games from Valve. This web-portal has a community with forums, many news, articles, downloads and informations regarding most of Valve’s games, as well as Steam and third-party Source Engine games.

HL Spain is a Spanish community for all Valve’s Half-Life games and mods, such as Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat or Team Fortress Classic. You can find previews, reviews, tutorials and news for everything related to HL and GoldSrc.

HL2World.com is a news and forum based site that has been around for a long time. The forum is particularly active.

Map-Factory is a database hosting custom maps for any FPS. If you’ve make a map or simply came across a good map, feel free to submit it! If not, then just navigate through the site and you’ll find a lot of good maps!

Mod DB is the largest website dedicated to supporting independent development of games

Netday is dedicated to custom maps of high quality only. Maps are added regularly (at least one per week). It also covers mods like Dystopia, Portal Prelude and JailBreak. The map reviews are both in English and in French. It is advert free and features direct download to all files.

Planet Half-Life is the daddy of them all. It’s been online longer than most and is generally updated daily.

Podcast 17 is a weekly verbal tour of the Half-Life community. It covers everything related to the Half-Life universe and features lively, informative recordings.

SLUM is Czech Steam community and fan portal about Steam and Valve games.

Steambans.com is a global banlist/watchlist made for the Steam technology from Valve. All bans that are accepted will enter a database which then is used to protect all servers under their supervision.

Steam Friends covers all the news related to Steam and Valve.

Steam Community and News Portal