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HALF-LIFE 2: DEATHMATCH - CUSTOM MAPS - LAMBDAGENERATION GAMENIGHT 🎮 This Saturday we're playing HL2DM with custom deathmatch & coop maps. Join us! 💥 📆 Sat 8 Aug 🕖 7PM GMT / 8PM BST / 9PM CEST / 3PM EDT / 2PM CDT / 12PM PDT 📍 Join via gamenight.lambdageneration.com 🎙 discord.lambdageneration.com
The Half-Life 2: VR Mod project has been verified for Steam Frame! The major update also brings lots of perf improvements on lower-end CPUs, updated built-in dxvk version, smoothed controller poses and a new sniper scope for the crossbow!
While we wait for the next HL2VRAI Act video, share below any art from the series you've seen recently and personal favorites!!
Both The Lab and Half-Life: Alyx have been getting updates to possibility get them playable on Valve's VR headset Steam Frame. HLA specifically got a recent depot change suggesting a "prerelease" build is being tested privately. No, there won't be any HL3 hints on it.
Look at these sweet model renders that our community modder Ryder has been posting on our site for his Half-Life mod Black Mesa: Classic!
Counter-Strike 2's avg player has been on a decline for 5 months in a row. According to the community, last time a similar decline happened was back in 2021, before the last CSGO's operation release Riptide. Lastly, CS2's recent reviews were also changed to "Mostly positive".
If you've got spare time tonight, go watch this new Half-Life fan-made movie, created entirely in Garry's Mod, called AVALON. "Camp Haven is hunted by a new threat, the city has fallen into turmoil and the administrator has taken a dire secret to his grave." Link below!
The team at Raising the Bar Redux's Portal mod Triumph is planning to have their 20 chambers demo release by the end of this year! They showcase what you can expect from new mechanics, new art direction, and their own take on GLaDOs in Triumph being a Combine AI kwown as CRONOS.
As spotted by GabeFollower, more strings related to cosmetics were found in the latest Deadlock update, including an "Emote" one. One being an "interactive type" similar to previous snowball event.
Valve's upcoming game Deadlock got a Matchmaking update. This update includes a revamp to how the matchmaking system works, as well as the introduction of a new matchmaking mode. You can choose to play in Standard Mode (unranked), or the new Ranked Mode.
Libre-life is a total conversion that ports Half-Life's entities, weapons, NPCs and gameplay onto DarkPlaces/FTE engines. "Goal is to combine support for HL, Quake 1 & 3 brush entities standards. Implement comfortable, easy-to-use UI Library and other modern features."
Valve funded open-source RADV Vulkan driver port for Windows that already runs Counter-Strike 2 using the game’s Vulkan renderer! RADV is part of Mesa and serves as the main Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs on Linux (SteamDeck and Machine too) Via: VideoCardz net
Inspired by the classic RunThinkShootLive's Toxicville, Map Labs starts a new mapping competition called Hazardous Waste! ☣️ This one you are required to publish your entry on the Half-Life 2 Worskhop, which means no MapBase, only Half-Life 2, EP1 or EP2!
There are no limits for the Half-Life community where Manny, a software engineer, managed to run HL1 natively on a Playstation 1! "Not an emulator nor a demake: a renderer and game runtime written from scratch in Rust. Built on PSoXide, a PS1 development suite" Learn more below!
The second Half-Life Alyx No-VR mod project, developed by SoMNst, came back after almost a year with a new video showcasing an upcoming demo that will soon to be released to the public. Watch the video below and show your support!
Valve can't catch a break lately. Qualcomm, the main chip supplier for the upcoming Steam Frame VR headset, is "increasing its prices by double-digit percentages (10% or more), resulting in an unexpected price increase for the headset. Via: TechPower
You can now play Entropy Zero 1 in the latest Half-Life 2 Alone mod! The update also brings lots of quality of life improvements, more gameplay customization options and other bug fixes.
LambdaGeneration is now 16 years old 🥳 Originally launched as a Wordpress site on July 27th, 2010. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years!
Third time is a charm? Another Portal community-made mod, which is 100% completed, is stuck on a limbo to release on Steam. "We use source code Valve gave us. We signed an NDA, but not a non-commercial release [...] now we've signed the non-com form but they haven't responded."
Thank you for participating the COUNTER-STRIKE:GLOBAL OFFENSIVE LambdaGeneration Gamenight! 🎮 Hope you guys enjoyed our first CSGO gamenight, it was a nostalgic experience! See you in the next one! 😀
Knockout chat returns to Team Fortress 2 Classified mod with a Custom Weapons Project featuring 300 new items to their server! Watch the trailer and learn more how to join in their website below!
After trying to sell a Companion Cube skin without a license, Dbrand launches a series of new Steam Machines skins that aren't illegal. One specifically is named "Orange Box" 🟧
