After some time in hibernation our podcast, All Things Lambda has risen from the ashes with a new episode.

Do you like Half-Life 2? Do you like Hotline Miami? If yes to both, then boy do we have just the thing for you.

If you’ve been following us on Twitter, Tumblr or Facebook, you’ve seen that a lot has happened this past week. Even if you set E3 aside there’s still things like the Summer Sale and the unveiling of Dota 2 as the first Source 2 game. There hasn’t been much coverage on the site of these major stories, so it’s time to change that. Time to catch-up.

The Summer Sale is upon us. Deals and discounts abound! Hopefully our wallets will make it out in one piece this time.

Preorders for the Steam Hardware have begun. While the launch of these products is a while off, the question is, do you have any use for it?

Valve has made some updates to the Refund policy on Steam. Let’s have look, shall we? Maybe we can finally get our money back for Spore.

I first met the folks of Half-Life 2: Episode Two Done Quick in the Twitch chat of a stream I was doing for the Black Mesa countdown. Later, they were kind enough to answer some questions I had about EP2DQ, their relationship with Half-Life, and how they got into speed-running. Check it out after the jump.

A while back the SourceRuns team had done a segmented speedrun of Half-Life 2 known as Half-Life 2 Done With a High Magnitude of Velocity (DWaHMoV). Since then they’ve done runs of Portal, Portal 2 and some mods, but now they have come out with their next big segmented run: Half-Life 2: Episode Two – Done Quick or EP2DQ for short. Check it out in it’s full glory after the jump.

Black Mesa, the mod that set out to recreate the original Half-Life from the ground up in the Source Engine has had a long and exciting journey from the days when it was just an ambitious idea.

Today, Black Mesa finally comes to Steam after being Greenlit on Steam so long ago.

A while back Zen Studios teased that they were doing something of the pinball variety with Valve.

I thought it was going to be a hat-based F2P Pinball game built on the Source Engine, but it looks like I’m wrong because today Zen Studios announced Portal Pinball a new Portal-themed board for Pinball FX2.