How about smashing two best old games into one? What about Quake-Life? Well, we got Half-Life in Quake at home. The mod v1.0 is out now!

Last reminder to all jolly art exchangers! 🎅 We highly recommend finishing up and submitting your amazing art gifts by the end of December 24th to fulfill your chosen member's #SecretGaben2025 Xmas wish! 🎄

The Last Goodbye, a noir-thriller Half-Life 1 mod, has just published their Act 1 trailer! Mod is set to release on 9th January, 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKBh...

The community-mod Half-Life: Through The City comes back with another dev blog of the year, where they talk about their development progress, possible chapter 1 completion by the end of the year and other unrelated projects. Check it out in the ModDB article below!

After 7 years, Steam's competitor Epic Games Store has finally added text chat

Attention #SecretGaben2025 entrants🎅 You have until December 24th (in your timezone) to fulfill your Xmas art to the chosen Secret Gabens member's wish! ⌛ Here are some amazing Xmas art exchanges that have been submitted so far on LambdaGeneration. 🎮 hitoshii 🪖 toten 🎬 cc 🧑‍🎄 lambd

Thank you for participating the COUNTER-STRIKE: SOURCE XMAS EDITION (+ FUN MAPS) LambdaGeneration Gamenight! 🎄 That's it, our last gamenight for this year! We will continue our shenanigans in the new year. It was a jolly night! 🎅 See you all in the next year's 2026 gamenights! 😀

Valve has stopped production on Steam Deck LCD 256GB model. "Once sold out, it will no longer be available. We will continue to provide support for Steam Deck LCD on an ongoing basis."

Flashback to last year’s LambdaGeneration Counter-Strike 1.6 Xmas Edition Gamenight 🎄 Join us tonight at 8pm GMT where we do it all again… in Source

Steam client is now 64-bit on Windows 11 and Windows 10 64-bit in the latest Steam update rolled out to all users now! "Systems running 32-bit versions of Windows will continue receiving updates to the 32-bit Steam client until January 1, 2026."

Black Mesa's crowbar just got pixelated in MorosProtocol as part of an official crowbar-collab with @blackmesagame.com Face newly identified lifeforms, unlock restricted areas and attempt to survive the infestation in this beautiful pixel-painted sci-fi-co-op FPS

What if the memorable GM_Construct was made recently? Well, you can finally check out by yourself in the latest s&box update!

The time has come folks! Steam Winter Sale is now live! Browse through hundreds of deals and buy that sweet game you always wanted to play with your friends, gift some or well just to play that old cozy one! Don't forget to vote for the nominees of the Steam Awards!

COUNTER-STRIKE: SOURCE XMAS EDITION (+ FUN MAPS) - LAMBDAGENERATION GAMENIGHT 🎮🎄 This weeks LambdaGen Gamenight, we're playing CS:S Xmas maps (and more)!🎅 📆 Sat 20 December 🕖 8PM GMT / 9PM CET / 3PM EST / 2PM CST / 12PM PST 📍 Join via gamenight.lambdageneration.com 🎙 discord.lambdageneration.com

Back when IKEA was cool…

Your Steam Replay of 2025 is available now! Go check it!

Attention all jolly art exchangers! The first phase of #SecretGaben2025 is over. Emails have gone out to all entrants with your randomly selected Secret Gaben member 🎅🏻 Full instructions + rules are included in your email, so please make sure to read it carefully.

❌ You've hit the thruster limit!

Remember the antitrust case against Valve made by Wolfire Games back in 2021 alleging Steam owns a monopoly, the '30% cut' and other things? Seems like the case is close to collapse because their lawyers cited: - the Sierra Wiki - a random Steam guide No joking.

Attention all Xmas Personnel: Last chance to submit your LambdaGeneration Secret Gaben Questionnaires🎅 It’s your last chance to take part in our #SecretGaben2025 Xmas art exchange. Our Xmas supercomputers will be randomly assigning everyone’s Secret Gaben member at 12pm GMT tomorrow December 16th.❄️

From the makers of Elevator: Source comes Elevator, the sequel. Up to 8 players, lots of randomized floors, full controller and Steamdeck support, voice effects and much more. All coming next year - 2026! Wishlist below!

Are you free this weekend? Well good timing then because both Half-Life Legacy and Half-Life Arena are out now on Steam! Replay Half-Life with lots of visual improvements, autojump, achievements, workshop and even with controllers! Want action with other players? Dive right into the Arena!

Our beloved Ellen McLain did an interview recently where she reads some commentaries from fans. Check it out below! youtu.be/wimXeVpT8PA

🎁🎅🏻 LAMBDAGENERATION SECRET GABEN XMAS ART EXCHANGE 🎅🏻🎁 It's that time of the year to spread a little Valve Xmas cheer 🎄 Send and receive jolly artwork with LambdaGeneration members around the world this holiday + have a chance to be featured on our site.

Half-Life: Dark Matter's author D3ads shares a couple of ingame screenshots of his mod. Even though there wasn't any media update this year, there was an interview from Eurogamer a while ago worth checking out! Also Dark Matter is on ModDB's Top100 list for MOTY - go vote!

The ModDB's Mod of The Year 2025 Top 100 list is UP! Go vote for your favorite upcoming or released mods of this year in the link below! www.moddb.com/groups/2025-...

After 20 years, the classic prototype survival-horror Half-Life 1 modification Zombie Panic! is finally coming to the Steam platform. This version will feature improved classic maps visuals, new characters models, weapons, bunch of new cvar and mapping entities for balance and more!

The Team Fortress 2's Smissmas Update is out! Featuring 6 new community maps, 23 new community-contributed items, 3 new community-made taunts, lots of new unusuals effects and bunch of fixes! Smissmas runs through January 7th, 2026!

Half-Life: Force Equation shares a very juicy media update, with lots of in-game screenshots showing their new chapters, models and weapons! They sadly had to postpone the release with no new date set. As the team grows, they are in need for female voice actors. More about it in the blog below!

The Team Fortress 2 mod previously know as "Team Fortress 2 Classic" has been rebranded to "Team Fortress 2 Classified"! They shared some info about the review process and all possible names they could have chosen in the blog below! Mod is set to release on January 30th, 2026!

Thank you for participating LAMBDA: Half-Life 2 (PART 2) CO-OP LambdaGeneration Gamenight! 🎮 We did it, guys! WE SAVED CHRISTMAS FROM THE COMBINE. Santa can bring presents now!🎁🎅 See you all in the next gamenight!👋

Behold Half-life 2 coop with 30+ players @lambdageneration.com

Part two of the LambdaGeneration Half-Life 2 Co-op Gamenight is starting now: www.youtube.com/live/FJnm_zS...

With ModDB's MOTY 2025 first phase nominees happening right now for Top 100 list, we wanted to give a shout out to a few great mods released this year! You can find more information below this post and check them out (or even vote for them) if you haven't!

A great time to be alive ...

Remember when we reported the lead designer and creator of Left 4 Dead's AI Director Mike Booth announced he was working on a new 4 coop shooter on Bad Robot Games? Seems like they did a partnership with Sony, which they may release it on PS5 and PC. Via: @videogameschronicle.com

LAMBDA: HALF-LIFE 2 CO-OP PART 2 - LAMBDAGENERATION GAMENIGHT 🎮 This weeks LambdaGen Gamenight, we're continuing playing LAMBDA: HALF-LIFE 2 CO-OP!🎅 📆 Sat 6 December 🕖 8PM GMT / 9PM CET / 3PM EST / 2PM CST / 12PM PST 📍 Join via gamenight.lambdageneration.com 🎙 discord.lambdageneration.com

According to new findings on @steamdb.info, Valve seems to be working their own version of Android on Linux compatibility layer based on Waydroid called "Lepton". Now we have 'Proton' for Windows to Linux and Lepton for Android to Linux. 2026 really is the year of Linux (for real this time).

The ModDB's Mod of the Year Awards 2025 has begun! Don't forget to vote for your favorite mods (released or upcoming) to reach the final Top 100! After that, come back on Dec 11 to see which ones have reached the list and vote it again to those worthy a MOTY 2025!

Shoutout to LambdaGeneration #Valvemas2023 runner up LarrySBM for being picked as our Discord & social media Xmas banner this year 🎄

Deck the halls with Lambdas λ 🎄🎁🎅🏻

Relive Half-Life's 1998 again with Dark Vector's Half-Life: Element 64 mod! "Battle the zombified personnel, military contractors and alien invaders across four distinct chapters of the game, each featuring unique themes, enemies and bosses."

We're starting off December as a reminder of an upcoming Half-Life mod! Half-Life Arena aims to "revamps Deathmatch of the OG into a small-scale, high intensity madness" with bunch of new maps, weapons, bot support and much more! Wishlist the mod now to get notify of its release this Dec 12!

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is now 21 years old 🎂 Released November 30, 2004 Over two decades of toilet frags

The Steam release of Garry’s Mod “GMod 10” is now 19 years old. Released November 29 2006 by “Team Garry” (now Facepunch) The good ol days.

Valve artist Ayi Sanchez defends Steam AI disclosure policy in wake of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s criticism of Valve. "Lets not excuse a technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" www.pcgamesn.com/steam/ai-dis...

Half-Life voice actor Hal Robins turns 75 today. Happy Birthday Hal! 🎂

Happy Thanksgiving from LambdaGeneration!🍽️🦃