Category: Articles

What do you want to see from Valve and the community in 2011?

What do you want to see from Valve and the community in 2011?

Whether or not you liked it, you have to admit, 2010 was a fairly eventful year for the Valve community.

But what do you want to see in 2011?

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Portal becomes “required reading” at the Wabash College

Portal becomes “required reading” at the Wabash College

We all know how amazing Portal is, since we operate a fansite dedicated to it and all, and while we (well, to be honest, only I) have read some of the interesting essays that attempt to show some of the subtexts and themes that can be found within Portal’s narrative, but who thought such discussions would make it out of the gaming blog or website?

Meet Michael Abbott, owner of the video game blog “The Brainy Gamer”, and a teacher at the Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, a liberal arts college founded in 1832. This may be, in fact, not only the first time this has happened inside the Wabash College, but the first time a video game has ever been on the syllabus of a college course.

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We Heart You Phillip Marlowe

We Heart You Phillip Marlowe

Back on June 27, Phillip Marlowe wrote an article thanking William McMahon for all his work on Podcast 17 and in the Half-Life community. He spoke of his dedication and love for the game and the people who play it , and it was an extremely thoughtful thing for Phillip to do.

Phillip runs his own website, Planet Phillip, where he reviews mods and maps for the Half-Life and Portal games along with providing download mirrors and forums. He doesn’t plaster his sites with ads nor demand attention to himself, something that we here at Lambda Generation love to do.

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News Roundup! #2

News Roundup! #2

Back to the News Roundups. Not as much stuff this week, but still quite a few interesting news.

A big thanks to Pinky for helping me get the feature image up!

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The Resistance Bulletin – Special Report

The Resistance Bulletin – Special Report

IF YOU ARE READING THIS AND YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED THIS ITEM FROM A PERSON YOU KNOW, PUT THIS DOWN IMMEDIATELY AND CONTINUE WALKING AWAY.

Hello and welcome to the Resistance Bulletin. I’m your same old news editor and part-time refugee, Vic, reporting from the inside of an abandoned coastal house just outside of City 17, in mortal fear of a Combine patrol which has stopped nearby.

Excuse if my writing is poor, but I have been forced to drink from the polluted seawater nearby, and some discarded cans of Private Reserve. I can feel my brain cells slowly dying.

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The Black Mesa Research Facility

The Black Mesa Research Facility

The Black Mesa Research Facility, found in Black Mesa, New Mexico, is government funded. It features a vast underground series of tunnels and tubes, inside you will find experiments and research in the deepest corners of science.

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What is LambdaGeneration?

What is LambdaGeneration?

Hello everyone and welcome to this brand new website! So you maybe asking, what is LambdaGeneration?…Well, it is simply a community based website which is focused on news, creations and multimedia produced in the Valve community…basically anything related to the Half-Life Universe. We have community connections with other sites like PlanetPhillip and Podcast17 too. New content will be posted daily and we hope people will enjoy reading everything. Make sure to join our public Steam group and follow us on Twitter for updates.

If you are interested in being a writer, fill out a comment here and tell us a little about yourself.