Fed up with the same old boring advent calendars? Add a bit of Half-Life to your festivities this year with this advent calendar.

It’s that time of year again and as part of our ongoing tradition to wish all of our readers a Happy Holidays, Jeff has put together another animated special for 2014, which this year tells the forgotten Valvemas tale of old Gabe Kringle…

Merry Christmas Everyone! Merry… day late… Christmas… oops!

Yes, this animated special is a bit late… my apologies, the family wanted to spend time together on the special holiday. Late or not, I was still determined to finish this animation. So take a minute, pretend it’s Wednesday and enjoy some holiday cheer from the LambdaGen crew…

Special thanks to Dhel for the last-minute vocals and a very special thanks to Lilgreenman for drawing all those awesome Xmas Advents, check those out over here.

Happy Holidays, and we hope to see you in the New Year!

 

 

We’re living in a world where you can’t trust to almost anyone.

The bad thing is – if you can’t trust to your publisher or a developer even if NDA means nothing to them.

Today (or I’d say yesterday) a screenshot of email, which was sent to publishers and developers by Valve, was leaked by a Russian developer via Steam Greenlight – a system that uses the community’s help to pick some new games to be released on Steam.

Most of you can say ‘No, it can’t be true. It’s a fake’, but unfortunately – no. No it’s not.

This is, probably, the biggest leak, related to Steam that I have ever witnessed (but I’m pretty sure that I have forgotten something).

We here at LambdaGeneration would like to wish you season’s greetings, and very happy holidays! Best wishes, tidings of joy, peace on Earth… and maybe a copy of Half-Life 3.

Which reminds me – what would Christmas be without a celebratory LambdaGeneration Christmas short? Did you answer “probably just Christmas“? Then you’d probably be right. Except we won’t let it be just Christmas! So like we did last year, we have concocted a heart-warming holiday special for that express purpose. It’s animated and directed by our very own Jeff – if you’re interested in seeing some more of his work, hit up his production blog on Tumblr.

Enough with all the words! Let’s take a look, shall we?

Don’t forget to check out our retrospective look at the events of December 2011, when a single T-shirt drove us all mad.