Gear up soldier! The team behind Opposing Force remake FUBAR is hosting a cosplay contest to be featured in their key art! You can find more information and all the rules in the link below!

Another Portal fan project having issues getting their build approved for a Steam release is Aperture Dating Simulator. "We haven't heard anything from Steam in over a year despite reaching out consistently [...] we're unsure if Steam is ever going to let us fully release there"

Give them a follow @ LambdaGeneration platform! community.lambdageneration.com/user/eliteco... community.lambdageneration.com/user/echo-zulu

Have you seen this man? If yes, please report it. Credits from our community members elitecombine0114 and echo-zulu!

The Ship: Murder Party was released 20 years ago! A commercial title running on the Source Engine 2006, sequel to its old Half-Life 1 mod The Ship, and developed by Outerlight studio!

We continue to get lots of good Valve fan-made entries created in many different games for our 4fun event #BorderWorldComp2026! If you've made something similar recently, join us too before July 18! Credits; 🎨 tomass 🎨 exceptionerroralex 🎨 bepbepstev 🎨 l337sama

An ex-project lead of PUNT, a Portal inspired-game, has shared a statement regarding the status of the game and anyone involved. "Valve killed Punt in 2023. Missed our agreed release window and then demanded more money. Ghosted when we tried to negotiate."

Thank you for participating TEAM FORTRESS 2 CLASSIFIED LambdaGeneration Gamenight! 🎮 We pleased the Civilian once again, every merc in this gamenight now get a 5-cent raise... (except for you engineer!) Great job everyone, it was very fun! See you in the next one! 😀

The Half-Life 2 mod Antenna has published a fresh media update where do a brief retrospective since last year, sharing some playtesting results and other neat visual & sound upgrades. Please take a look in their ModDB article below to see more.

If you're crazy enough, you can install Windows in your Steam Machine. Valve has uploaded all the necessary drivers in case you make the switch from SteamOS to Windows and warns that they are "unable to offer Windows on Steam Hardware support".

The demo of Half-Life is Strange, featuring Max Caulfield using her powers in the Black Mesa Research Facility, is out on ModDB! The crossover you never expected to see from G-man.

There's now a Soldier statue in Counter-Strike 2 thanks to a recent added 5x5 community-map called Fachwerk by OrelStealth! Rick May, Soldier's VA, has passed on April 5, 2020.

The team over EXCAVATION, a small sci-fi FPS running on GoldSrc, has shared this amazing devblog video going into their Europa setting. You can watch the full 10 min long video in the link below!

Steam is now estimated to have more than 200 million monthly active users, making it over 50% larger than PlayStation. All thanks to GameDiscoverCo founder Simon Carless report.

TEAM FORTRESS 2 CLASSIFIED - LAMBDAGENERATION GAMENIGHT 🎮 This Saturday we're playing @tf2classified.com. Join us on some VIP, 4-teams and MORE! 💥 📆 Sat 11 July 🕖 7PM GMT / 8PM BST / 9PM CEST / 3PM EDT / 2PM CDT / 12PM PDT 📍 Join via gamenight.lambdageneration.com 🎙 discord.lambdageneration.com

The Team Fortress 2 Summer Update 2026 is now live! Featuring 6 new community maps, 4 new taunts, bunch of community made items, unusual effects, war paint and lots of bug fixes!

The Fortress Connected mod that put mercs to fight into other Source games has published a 10 min long dev video showcasing all their work done throughout these past months! From new animations, UI and weapons changes to HL2 NPCs doing crits and map objectives with the player!

One of our community members created this neat interaction with the vending machine from their project 'Sector Origins'. A pre-disaster Half-Life 1 mod where nothing goes wrong and you can safely explore Black Mesa Research Facility! Finally the scientist respected the limits!

INFRA is a beautiful Source game

Sane in Silence, a Half-Life 2 mod set in early 2000s Finland where you have to escape a nightmarish mansion, publishes a sick blogpost! They shared new gameplay mechanics, UI tweaks and map updates.

We've got two Team Fortress 2 Classified news for you! 1. The Authoring Tools is now available on Steam, including links to their documentation, a reference material and more! 2. An artpass comp is happening right now and you've six weeks to create the visuals for a base map layout!

Imagine being one of the first to try out Steam Machine and experience the first "The Red Line of Death" on it... That's the case of Reddit user me_hill. Yesterday, he tried some plug-and-play time (and BIOS tweaks), the Machine worked again! Still better wait for Steam Support!

Enjoying the Steam Summer Sale? Any game got your interest? A reminder that Black Mesa is 80% and they shared few sneak peeks of their next update in their latest blog! Go check other previews below!

The Half-Life 2: All Good Things mod author has shared another dev progress of his Epistle 3 inspired project. With 11 maps already playable, the playtest session will help shape things up shortly, which you may expect a Steam Workshop release towards the end Autumn (Fall) 2026.

Happy 4th of July

A few days ago we shared our real-life Lambda Generator. We've since made the difficult decision to discontinue the production of physical generators. Allowing people to physically own things isn't good, we need digital subscription age-verified generators instead.

Download here! www.dropbox.com/t/Pvr48MtKoO... Yesterday we got the two Barney covers which you can find here! bsky.app/profile/lamb...

And we've got another batch of raw PSD files from Joachim Barrum! The classic Half-Life cover of Blast Pit for GamePro Cover magazine, a Counter-Strike cover for another magazine and a Gunman cover too! Thanks to @Axsilversurf for reaching out again! Link below!

🔊 A reminder to all LambdaGeneration members: Our Border Worlds competition is still underway! Create your favorite Valve characters in non-Valve games and show off your cross-dimensional skills to the community. Here's the OG crew in Tomodachi Life by BobBlackMesa:

We've got the original PSDs files to the Half-Life: Blue Shift cover art! Joachim Barrum, one of the artists behind the two Barney artworks, has shared the download with the community via email! Link below! Credits to the Combine Overwiki.