You know what happened 8 years ago? Hunt Down the Freeman, the spin-off game based on Half-Life 2. Let's all wish Mitch a Happy Birthday!

Saturday evening Freeman scribble #halflife

Steam Next Fest is up and running with bunch of free demos for you! Singleplayer and multiplayer demos from upcoming games of all kinds.

Half-Life: Field Intensity mod has their new v1.7 update out now on ModDB! This Half-Life 1 mod, released in 2022, covers the time from the arrival of the HECU soldiers up to the nuclear explosion in the Black Mesa Research Facility. If you haven't played yet, now it's a good time.

The @emberspark.games team, people behind the Portal 2 mod DESOLATION, has published a little short story called "The Fusion Forge". If you got a time to spare, go give a read in the link below!

On February 22, 2022, the ModDB version of Half-Life Legacy was out. Now, we have a proper Steam version released on December of last year!

Thank you for participating the DAY OF DEFEAT: SOURCE LambdaGeneration Gamenight! 🪖🎮 The factions decided to make peace before the big boom, that is "BAZOOKA"!💥 See you in the next one! 😀

It's been exactly 4 years since CSGO last Operation Riptide.

Crazy to know we already got a Chinese Deadlock ripoff called "Gold Rush Alliance" with McGinnis, Abrams, Seven and Haze.

Half-Life 2 have one of the most memorable menu backgrounds with its atmosphere, changing every time you progress throughout the chapters. Question is, which one of them is THE background of Half-Life 2 to you? Sadly had to cut a few out and Bluesky still don't have a poll feature... reply below!

2026 is the year of the horse and Valve has the brilliant idea to do a Steam Horse Fest with lots of horse themed games on discount! Starting now through February 23!

Feeling a bit nostalgic? Missing the good-old Aero theme in your PC? Then this new mod for Portal 1 based on the frutiger Aero aesthetic might get your interest, announced by Phoenyx on our platform! The mod will include new/old mechanics and advanced versions of some chambers.

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Valve wins a lawsuit against Rothschild and his associated entities. The jury agreed they violated an anti-patent troll protection act as "bad-faith assertions of patent infringement". Via: PCGamer

A new addition to the upcoming Steam review update has been spotted recently where you can filter PC specs/OS. credits: byc4ctus

We are excited and honored to reveal that Mr. Iron Lung himself @duskdev.bsky.social is now an official member of the LambdaGeneration Team. David has been working with us a while on something we've been cooking. (No it's not Half-Lung 3) Hint: Do you miss forums? [we do]

Last week, Steam Deck OLED was reported being "out of stock" but still available in other countries. Today, Valve has added a new note that "Steam Deck OLED may be out of stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages." This doesn't look good folks.

Five years ago one of the best Black Mesa mods Blue Shift was announced! The team is planning to publish a special devblog video within a month to celebrate this milestone. Probably March 14 when it was first released!

This little Portal 1 mod lets you coop with another human-friend of yours! Portal: Cooperative has just released their Beta 5.0.0 that includes two new maps and bunch of fixes from their previous betas. If you have a friend that also loves Portal, invite them over to play!

Been walking around in Rio last weekend and found something...

Entropy Zero 1 and 2 creator @cyansundae.bsky.social just published a dev update video regarding everything related to the Entropy Zero franchise. The video contains info about EZ1 VR version, Axon Pariah (EZ2 sequel), Progenitors (one of the expansions) and some info about his own project!

We've got some dev news on this Half-Life 2 mod aiming to expand the main game with new levels and alternative paths to choose from. Half-Life 2: Alternis goes into details on these new paths around the Coast and their demo has been updated in case you want to try it out.

The Steam release of the classic Half-Life mod Zombie Panic! is coming closer and they have shared some dev progress done and a F.A.Q about it. The mod is set to release on March 10 of this year!

The Raising the Bar Redux team celebrate REDUX's 8th anniversary where they go back in time to few of their first early builds. They also ported some legacy weapons from those early builds to the modern RTBR’s animation sets and will release them in a future patch.

Our team had some fun checking out Gunman Chronicles Deathmatch - a fun take on HLDM. Despite owning this GoldSrc game since 2000, we’ve never experienced it online due to lack of servers & players. Thanks to Valve’s HL25 patch, the ModDB version now works with Steam Networking!

The modder AdrianDogmeat have been reworking 400+ textures signs for Black Mesa. From decals, to signs and many more in higher resolutions for almost 2 months! There is also one for HL2! You gotta check it out their work available right now through Workshop. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

To our brazilian fans, seems like Blizzard already took down loot boxes from the drop and the battle pass on Overwatch. A bit of an early action since next month lootboxes will be banned in Brazil. It's still unclear what Valve will do to their titles. Specially on Counter-Strike 2.

Oh yes... it's that time of the year again... hmmm can you feel it? We at LambdaGeneration wish you all a Happy Valentines day! A special heartwarming thanks to @toten.bsky.social for creating this lovely art just for you!

This week concludes the rollout of all the 6 new heroes to Deadlock. Valve has shared some stats of the voting, where 60,776,963 total votes were cast across the event, largest winning margin was Venator over Celeste at 11% and the highest number of votes cast by one player was 813 for Celeste.

We're only half way through the month and already got so many good artworks from our community posted in our site! Credits: 🎨 Kryscmb 🎨 Gazzer 🎨 HatMans 🎨 Ashephardcpl #lambdagenerationarts #halflife #teamfortress2 #starwars

Yesterday, February 12, Combine OverWiki turned 20 years old! Let's all wish our friends at Combine OverWiki a happy birthday and thank them for an amazing support with wiki editing for both Half-Life and Portal series through these past two decades!

You can now leave your PC specs in a review in the latest Steam Beta patch. This is totally optional when creating a Steam review through the game Store page and you can select which PC specs you want to include.

Squad up people! The latest @crowbarcollective.com commercial game @playroguepoint.com, a 4-player coop shooter, is out now on Steam as Early Access! There is a 15% discount running through February 26th! You can also save an extra bucks with Rogue Point + Black Mesa bundle too!

Someone already made an easy tool to use Gman face as a way to bypass Discord face scan ID check instead of using via Garry's Mod. This community is insane! You can check by yourself in the link below! Video credits: alxbrsn

To those who have questions about the Poker Night at the Inventory items being reissued and how to obtain them again, we got a new devblog that goes into detail. One being available only if you purchase the remaster in the first two weeks after launch and the others by specific gameplay scenarios.

The creator of Deep Down, Deeper Down and Aftermath has started their own Epistle 3 inspired mod on ModDB called Half-Life 2: All Good Things. There is an early dev gameplay showcasing an updated airboat section of the mod in the arctic. More details below!

Valve fans, you know what to do when Discord ask to face scan this March.

You may not have notice it, but first ep of skibidi toilet was released 3 years ago.

SourceWorld, a Half-Life 2 mod, shares their first devblog of the year. They go into details about their work done over the past months in level design overhauls, new characters introduction, new save menu & minimap and other gameplay changes. There is an old demo available on Steam just in case!

Thank you for participating the TEAM FORTRESS 2 CLASSIFIED LambdaGeneration Gamenight! 🎮 We pleased the Civilian, everyone will now get a 5-cent raise, great job everyone, and very fun! See you in the next one! 😀

Any Gunman Chronicles fans in the house? Our guy @vemtex.bsky.social made this epic model of the game's iconic Battle Drone - absolutely stunning 👌

With the release of @tf2classified.com mod last week and reaching almost 10K players at launch, we want to remind you of our gamenight coming up this Saturday (Feb 7th - 8 PM GMT) to celebrate this milestone with the team and the TF2 community! See you there!

The Garry's Mod spiritual successor s&box is set to release this April!

Before Steam Mobile there was Gears - the first native iPhone app for Steam, released 2009 Who remembers using this back in the day?

Valve just published a FAQ regarding Steam Hardware. "Our goal of shipping all three products in the first half of the year has not changed. But we have work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates that we can confidently announce ..." More info below!

Let's go gambling once again with the classic Poker Night at the Inventory coming back to the Steam Store five years later, fully remastered by Skunkape Games. The game is set to release 5 Mar, 2026! Wishlist below!

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AMD CEO Lisa Su confirms Steam Machines is still on-track to begin shipping early this year. We're still waiting for Valve to announce its pricing of their hardware.

MMod: Tactical Reloaded is the latest Half-Life 2 mod that aims to recreate lots of aspects from the original MMod Tactical by Ludexus with new weapon model and animations, new Combine variants, new effects and others! Try it out for yourself in the ModDB link below

We got ourselves a new Team Fortress 2 mod hitting the Steam store, but this time a survival horror story-driven singleplayer one! Based on a TF2 community map called 'Crypto Forest' as a soft-reboot timeline, continuing two weeks after the supernatural incident. Check out below!