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

The Snarkpit has been online since 2001, making it one of the longest running websites that covers Valve’s games. It has had a number of redesigns over the years and always adds new features. It’s focus is maps and mods for a wide variety of games and mods. The site has an active forum and plenty of downloads. Many of the articles are quite short but they are still a good read.

Interlopers has been online since 2004. It posts selected Steam game news but its focus is on content creation. The main part of the site is its forum, where visitors discuss a wide range of gaming topics. A recent new feature is Portfolios that has been a great success. In addition to this there are also tutorials, articles and downloads.

PlanetPhillip.com contains the most comprehensive database of single player maps and mods for the Half-Life series of game on the Internet. In addition the site contains Phillip’s blog, which includes topics such as game ideas and mod stories, commentary on gaming topics, weekly poll questions, interviews with mod authors and more.

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