Valve Community

OzSource is the home of the Australian Gaming Combine. Steam discussion, Community Portal, Gaming news and opinions, critiques, retrospectives. Oz Source has been resurrected from its Half Life 2 Deathmatch origins.

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 Improvement is dedicated to the creation of custom content for all things Valve related. With tons of custom content, and a friendly community. What could go wrong?

Halflife2.net features information about all Valve titles, as well as the largest Valve forum community outside of Steam. It is a good resource for news and general information about the games, and the community can answer most Half-Life related question. The site is hosted and supported by Valve themselves.

Half-Life Creations provides a professional atmosphere for third party developers. Forums, downloads and even hosting for modifications are availble on this friendly site.

Mod DB is the largest website dedicated to supporting independent development of games, including mods, indie games, and user generated game content.

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

This is the official home of Valve. There’s not much to say about this except that the People is worth a read. There is also a jobs page for those with “skillz”, experience and ambition!

SteamPowered is the home of Steam, a digital distribution platform. The website offers visitors the ability to buy and download games, interactive with other Steam users. There are always special offers and weekend specials. The site also contains support forums, stats and everything else a users needs to know about Steam! It’s also available in 17 other languages besides English.

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.

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The Whole Half-Life AKA TWHL is first and foremost a community of mappers and modders. It has very active forums and plenty of tutorials. There are also a lot of tutorials for various aspects of modding. In addition to regular mapping competitions there is also a Map Vault, which contains both finished maps and a lot of WIP as well.

Amphibian Mods describes procedures for installing and running single player mods for popular first person shooter games. The site is also a showcase for quality mods and map packs which have been made by fans between 1999 and today. The site illustrates methods for installing and running mods from command lines, including how to make shortcuts directly to each mod or map. All mods and maps can be ready to play directly from a shortcut, as in the example on this page, without having use the in-game menu or console. This site also acts as a quality filter for the huge number of mods and maps which are available.