Valve Community

SteamCard is a simple way to display your stats from the Steam Community, just like a Live! Gamercard. SteamCards are just PNG images, which means you can embed them into forums, signatures etc. Different styles of SteamCard are avaliable so you can stand out from the crowd.

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.

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!

City 17 is a Russian review site for single player maps and mods.

My Aperture Labs: Welcome to the Aperture Science Enrichment Center’s Online Community Networking Web Service (or ASECOCNWS for short). Here at the ASECOCNWS, test subjects may attempt to solve Portal puzzles, build their own Portal puzzle environments, or simply talk about cake.

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.

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

Game Updates is a bittorrent reference site for legal game and mod files. You can find and download the latest patches and updates. The site is updated very regularly and users can also upload files. Each file has a basic description and users can comment on each file. There is also a forum.