Valve Community

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.

The Survivors Diary Podcast is a weekly podcast about Left 4 Dead where we explore certain features of left 4 dead, as well as talk about community stuff that has been released. They also now cover maps that people have made as well as discuss tactics, suggestions and even glitches for the game. THey hope to expand our community and be one of the major Left 4 Dead community content websites.

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.

Grinder74 covers single player maps & mods & other addons for the Half-Life series of games. It’s in Polish.

FPS Banana is one of the largest and most popular game customization community driven websites around, uniting talented artist from around the world in constant submission of custom created content for the games of today.

Half-Life 2: Wars is a modification that transforms HL2 into an RTS, pitting the Resistance versus the Combine. It has been in development since 2007 and features many typical strategy game aspects, including basebuilding, fog of war, multiplayer support, and much more.

Counter-Strike HQ covers the latest news, articles, skins, maps, sprites, and everything else Counter-Strike you can imagine. It is also perfect for the third party developers, since you can submit your work (maps, skins, etc) for the entire community to download free.

HL Site is a Russian portal for some of Valve’s games.

“Destructive Studio is a team of mappers that pride themselves in their work by producing new and creative maps for all different games and categories. Our Forums helps to aid mapper by giving them a place where they can post their projects and receive input from other forum members and they are able to see what other mappers have been working on as well.“