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

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