| Name | Services | Rating |  |
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| Official mailing lists | Ask questions related to mapping, coding and steam services through each mailing list, view the archives as well! |  |
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| Half-Life Coding | one of the best original resources for Half-Life Coding |  |
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| Planet Fortress | Team Fortress Based fan site | |
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| KV File Generator | Online tool that automatically generates a formatted .kv file based on your selection for CS:GO | |
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| gamewag | Links to plenty of mapping and modding tutorials based on Source | |
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| Gaming-Models.de | Download free models for use in your mods | |
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| Arbitrary Imposition | Site dedicated to the Gman and his sightings | |
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| Modding Area | Great French community for Modding resources. | |
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| Half-Life Museum | A good break down of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, unfortunately it is no longer live. | |
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| The Mighty Atom | Great little selection of some of the harder to find resources on Half-life | |
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| SFMLab | Download free models for use in your Source Filmmaker shorts | |
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| Ubermicro | Community of tutorials on mapping and modding | |
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| Source Runs | Source runs is a great site documenting and supporting community members who attempt record breaking speed runs through GoldSrc and Source Engine games. | |
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| Texture Studio | Old texture resource for Half-Life, contains some tutorials | |
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| Vossey | Active French Modding Community | |
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| No Draw | Great Blog detailing concepts when it comes to TF2 map creation | |
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| Plague Fest | Great mapping and modding community | |
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| Chaincraft | Olden goldie here with some very useful modding tips on goldsrc | |
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| Half-Life Portal | German site covering Valves games | |
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| HLDS 101 | Cool resource explaining how to use the Half-Life Dedicated Server | |
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| Half-Life SDK2 Resources | Good site for getting up and running with the old SDK | |
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| HL Improvement | Thriving Modding Community | |
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| Mapeadores | Spanish modding Tutorials | |
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| Amphibian Mods | Another great resource for modding, unfortunately lost in Valvetime | |
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| Run Think Shoot Live | A great community website for all things valve related. Focused on mods, tutorials and the expression of the community. Previously known as Planet Phillip. | |
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| Level Design Theory | Blog documenting single player map creation for Half-Life 2 and other Source Games | |
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| Garry's Mod Wiki | Wiki with useful information for developers and gamers playing with Garry's Mod | |
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| Counter Server Maps | Another unfortunately dead resource that supplied plenty of downloads and tutorials | |
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| SDK Nuts | One of the older HL2 modding websites | |
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| Half-Life Wiki | Another great wiki covering Half-Life | |
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| Steampowered Forums | The Original Official Steam Forums | |
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| CS:Velocity | Once another vibrant community from the Counter Strike golden days | |
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| isolated-design.de | A good resource for GoldSrc modding tutorials | |
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| Game Edit | Few small tutorials on HL1 mapping | |
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| Map Core | Legendary Half-life Based Mapping Resource with a Vibrant community | |
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| ammahls | Tutorials for Sven Co-op | |
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| Vanilla Capsule | decent pipe tutorial for Hammer | |
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| Gamedesign.net Prefabs | hosted multitudes of prefabs for half-life | |
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| Facepunch | Great website with plenty of tutorials many of which focus on Garrys mod but none the less a very useful website | |
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| Mach III | Decent site from the old days covering Half-Life | |
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| taz00 | Some useful source modding tips can be crawled here | |
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| The Razzer Tutorials | Tutorials for Source mapping (Deutsch) | |
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| Combine OverWiki | Comprehensive information on Half-life and Portal | |
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| half-life.ru | Active Russian Modding Community | |
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| Half-life Coding Index | Old site indexing the coding tutorials available for half-life | |
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| modsentry | Great resource covering popular game mods | |
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| A Working Pig | Half-Life 2 Deathmatch maps and utilities | |
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| pcosmos.ca | Collection of Half-Life and Opposing Force Mods | |
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| Wunderboy | Very useful Tools and Tutorials for Source Modding | |
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| Encyclopedias | Half-Life - Half Life Machinima - Left 4 Dead - Team Fortress Wiki - Counter Strike Wiki Day of Defeat Wiki - Alien Swarm Wiki - Dota Wiki - Half-Life Mods Wiki | |
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| Half-Life Programming | Great resource for Half-Life coding | |
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| Type 3 studios | Source Engine mapping and tutorials | |
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| Moddb | Huge Database of Mods, tools and tutorials, thriving community and useful rating system | |
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| LambdaGeneration | A great community fan website for all things Valve related with a primary focus on that which is Half life. Gives great exposure for new mods. | |
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| Wavelength | Source, GoldSrc tutorials, inactive forums, mostly defunct, use the wayback machine to get some missing pages | |
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| VERC | VERC Collective (Valve Editing Resource Center) website no longer exists but can be traversed on the wayback machine, Predecessor to VDC | |
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| Netday | Map hosting site including but not limited to Valve Games | |
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| Black Mesa | Black Mesa is a re-envisioning of Valve Software's classic science fiction first person shooter, Half-Life. Powered by Source Engine, You will re-visit the inaugural role of Gordon Freeman and his memorable journey through the Black Mesa Research Facility. | |
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| SRCDS | Source Dedicated server resource | |
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| The Weapons Workshop | provided downloads to Hl Models. | |
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| Half-Life Beginners guide | Decent attempt to make it easier for newbs to come to grips with the SDK | |
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| scmapdb | Tutorials for Sven Co-op | |
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| HalfLife.net | Another Half-Life website from back in the day | |
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| Half-Life Editing Resource | Similar to VERC, decent collection of tutorials here as well as downloads | |
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| Steam Review | Site covering interesting facts about Steam | |
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| 100 Half-Life 1 Mods | 100 of Half-Life 1's best Mods hand picked by Andrej Mernik | |
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| Botmans Bots | Decent starting point for modding the SDK | |
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| Source Subreddits | /r/sourceengine - /r/SourceMods - /r/Hammer - /r/AskMappers - /r/csmapmakers /r/csworkshop - /r/SFM - /r/TF2 - /r/L4D2 - /r/Portal - /r/Portal2 - /r/Halflife /r/CounterStrike - /r/DotA2 - /r/steam - /r/valve - /r/Sourceengine2 - /r/Portalmaps - /r/SourceEngineTest/ | |
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| MaxofS2D | Gifted movie maker and modeler who worked extensively with Source... | |
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| Ask Yahn | Questions put to Valve Employee Yahn Bernier | |
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| Contaminated | Defacto place for everything half-life around its release. Closed only to re-open as Planet Half-life. | |
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| Weapons in GoldSrc/Source | Black Mesa - Counter-Strike - Counter-Strike Online - Counter-Strike: Condition Zero - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Counter-Strike: Source - Day of Defeat - Day of Defeat: Source - Firearms: Source - Half-Life - Half-Life 2 - Insurgency Insurgency 2 - Left 4 Dead - Left 4 Dead 2 - Team Fortress 2 - Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines | |
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| EditLife | One of the older sites dedicated to mapping and resources. No longer live  | |
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| Slackiller | Tutorials, textures and maps for Source | |
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| WorldCraft Online | Tool for creating Hammer maps from a 2D perspective | |
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| Halfwit 2 | HL2 mapping and tutorials, general information | |
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| Half-Life Fusion | French site dedicated to Half-Life | |
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| Design 3 (Noesis) | Big collection of high quality Source engine tutorials (paid) | |
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| Background Radiation | Unfortunately dead, this site provided prefabs back in the day | |
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| Half-Life Beta Project | Nice little russian site covering Half-Life designed around the old steam colors. | |
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| 69th Vlatitude | Good oldschool tuts and resources can be found here | |
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| ModMatic | Mod review site from the developer of Minerva | |
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| Chaosincarnate | Tools and Tutorials for Source Modding | |
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| World of Level Design | Tutorials on Mapping for many platforms | |
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| ModDota | Great resource for modding Dota II | |
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| Half Life Saga | not useful for modders but a must read for those interested in the half-life Universe | |
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| Where is Gordon Freeman | This website is a timeline documenting the range of fascinating events that have happened between Gordon Freeman’s most recent appearance in 2007 and his yet-to-be-announced next appearance in the franchise. | |
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| Valves Official Twitter Accounts | Source Film Maker - CS:GO - DOTA2 - TF2 - L4D | |
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| Game Banana | One of the original game modding websites (previously known as FPS Banana) | |
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| Half Life Express | Old site for news on Half-Life | |
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| metrocop | Comics from Source engines games, specifically Garrys Mod. | |
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| Half Life Zone | Small site for Half life related content | |
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| HL Spain | Spanish blog covering Half-Life 1 Mods | |
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| Persistence of Vision | Tutorials on creating movies in half-life | |
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| nextwish | Old site with useful info on modding for GoldSrc | |
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| Alien Swarm:Single Player Blog | Great Blog based on the Single player conversion mod for Alien Swarm | |
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| Radium | Old Map rating and review site | |
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| CITY17.RU | Another unfortunate victim of disregard, CITY17.ru was a great site dedicated to everything Half-life. | |
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| Steamcast | Great collection of Podcasts on everything VALVe | |
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| Official Valve Developer Mailing Lists | Csgo_sdk - Csgo_servers - hlcoders - hlds - hlds_announce - hlds_apps - hlds_linux hlmappers - P2mapper - steamrepo - TF2Workshop | |
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| dying2kill | Australian & NewZealand based Gaming Community | |
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| Handy Vandal | Decent oldschool resource for half-life modding | |
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| hl2world | No longer exists but was once the defacto source of tutorials for HL2 Modding | |
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| 3kliksphilip | Talented CSS and CS:GO Mapper with a wealth of Tutorials | |
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| Counter Map | Useful maps and Tutorials for CS 1.6 and CS:S | |
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| HL2DB | Another lost site that had some promise back in the day. | |
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| The Fixxxer | Good collection of coding tutorials here | |
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| TWHL | Source, GoldSrc tutorials, active forums, friendly community | |
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| 3rdLife | very hard to crawl but was once a great tutorial resource | |
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| Rvanhoorn | Half-Life 2 Map Editing Optimization Guide | |
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| Half-Life Programming Planet | plenty of good old tutorials here for Half-Life | |
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| hl2modcentral | A site that had a wealth of useful tutorials but unfortunately lost. | |
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| Jinx's Maps | Great little site with some good tutorials and resources on Half-life | |
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| HL2 Mods.ru | A Russian Mod Review site for Source Games | |
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| Appalachian Killing Grounds | Old site with large collection of tutorials | |
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| Sven Co-op | Great website with a very active community for the Sven Coop Mod | |
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| Half-Life DeathMatch Guide | Guides for succeeding in HL1DM | |
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| The Snarkpit | Host for maps, tools and tutorials, active community | |
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| Ceskemody | Czech Modding site with both GoldSrc and Source Content | |
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| nashalife | Russian Modding site for Half-Life | |
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| Podcast 17 | Another great collection of podcasts on anything steam, valve or source related | |
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| Grinder74 | Another Polish community dedicated to Half-Life | |
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| GoldSrc Gold | Exhibiting and preserving the great look and feel of Goldsource engine games & mods from days gone bye. | |
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| Sourcedc | Had some decent Mapping tutorials, Worth a look. | |
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| Half-Life Library | This site focuses more on user generated content like custom maps, modifications, videos, models, clans and more for all of Valve's games. | |
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| Half-Life.org | Some interesting articles to read here | |
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| Mapping Base | Great German community for Mapping resources. | |
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| Planet Half-Life | Once one of the greatest sources for everything HL2, is now shutdown with Gamespys closure | |
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| SourceWiki | Once had some good coding tutorials and offered help, unfortunately lost. | |
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| Editing Archive | The Archive serves as a gathering point for people interested in games and game development. The Archive has various features to help unite the community, and bring them together. | |
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| HL2DM University | Half-Life 2 Deathmatch based community resource. | |
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| The 303 | Tutorials for Source | |
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| Petes Place | Old coding tutorials | |
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| EGIR.DK | Provided a vibrant forum and tutorial collection back in the day | |
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| Half-Life Fallout | One of the better communities for Half-life content | |
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| The Wall | German Mapping community with a wealth of Tutorials | |
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| Phineas Bot | Bots for Half-Life and tutorials | |
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| NerdChow | Coding tutorial for Half-Life | |
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| Interlopers | HL2 News, Tutorials and forum with a thriving community | |
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| Wallworm | Modeling tools for Max | |
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| HL Collection | Russian Mod hosting site dedicated to Half-Life | |
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| hl.loess | Very useful list of mods for Half Life | |
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| Half-Life Nostalgia Project | Collection of screens and info prior to the release of Half-Life. another victim to gamespys untimely demise. | |
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| Half-Life Arrangement | Few small tutorials for Source | |
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| The Wadfather | Contains some useful links to tutorials | |
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| Half-Life Creations | Useful Community for modding tutorials | |
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| Resource Code | Old site with large collection of coding tutorials written in German | |
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| HalfLife Control Unit | Great web resource for Half-Life | |
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| HLFX | Active Russian Modding Community | |
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| VDC | The Valve Developer Community is the official Source SDK Documentation | |
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| Valvetime | Great source of news on everything Valve related. | |
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| Counter-Script | The #1 Counter-Strike Scripting Site... now gone :/ | |
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| headcrab.pl | Polish community dedicated to Half-Life | |
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| Nems Tools | Extremely useful tools for Source modding | |
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| valvenews | Old site for news on Half-Life | |
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| Mortal Dev | Great website with links to useful resources | |
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| Half-Life Physics Reference | The Half-Life Physics Reference is a wonderful site with un-official documentation on the GoldSrc Engine. | |
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| tophattwaffle | Excellent tutorials on Source mapping | |
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| Half-Life [GameHut] | Old site with walkthroughs on half-life | |
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| Half-Life Comic | Comical take on the Half-Life Universe | |
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| Mr Funeral Mods | Talented Source Modder with good quality Tutorials | |
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| Action Half-Life | Useful maps and Tutorials (use the wayback machine to navigate) | |
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| SteamDB | Records all changes to steams games and products | |
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| Valve Developer Union | the Valve Developer Union’s goal is to preserve the toolset and knowledge for modding Quake-based games, including games built off Valve Corporation’s GoldSrc and Source engines. | |
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| Mods Inside | Russian Mod community providing forums, files and reviews. | |
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| Leakfree | Some useful tutorials on mapping with Source | |
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| Half-Life 2 Mods | A collection of all known mods for HL2 | |
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| Garrys Blog | From the creator of Garrys mod comes Garrys Blog... | |
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| HL2Spain | Spanish site covering everything Source | |
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| HL2 Coding | Programming Tutorials for HL2 | |
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| When its done | Some tutorials on HL1 development | |
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| Halflife2.filefront | Huge collection of downloads for Half Life and Source | |
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| Half-Life HQ | Once a very busy site for Half-Life | |
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| Official Valve Game Sites | Dota II - Thinking with Portals - Team Fortress 2 Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Counter Strike: Source - Left 4 Dead - Left 4 Dead 2 Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal | |
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| TenFour | Once a great review site. | |
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| Counter-Strike Planet | Great old mapping resource for Counter strike. | |
