Valve Community

Tweak Guides provides incredibly useful information and tips on how to get the most out of your hardware and games.

HL2 DM University’s mission statement is to promote and improve the online Half-Life 2 Deathmatch experience for all players by providing an extensive repository of useful and interesting information and files.

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.

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

3D Buzz is a company dedicated to providing the world with quality technical education over 3D animation, programming, game design, and much more. They have been producing training videos since 2001, always pushing the envelope in the development of informative lessons with an engaging and personable format. They try to make the viewer feel more like they’re involved in a classroom discussion with an energetic teacher as opposed to being stuck in a dry, uninspired, run-of-the-mill training video.

Can You Run It? provides a one-click solution that looks at your computer’s hardware and system software to determine whether or not your current system can run a product.

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!

Leak Free is a Source engine development community started in 2004, which consists of useful tutorials and a helpful community to answer all of your level design, modeling, and programming questions. One of the most noted features is the Valve Hammer Editor Error Listing, which describes all the errors in the software and how you can avoid them.

HL2Spain is a Spanish fan-site and gaming community covering everything about the Steam Platform, Valve Games, and Source Engine based Games & MODs. It includes news, reviews, previews, manuals and tutorials done by their team and the community itself.

Half Life Storm contains forums for discussions about the Half Life Series and the other Source Engine games by Valve. It is mainly directed towards mapping, as it contains many mapping tutorials. It will expand into other categories later on.

Half-Life Inside is a HL community for Russian speaking fans.

Headcrab.pl is a Polish website that covers most of Valve’s newer games.