Today, October 10th 2017, marks 10 years since the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2. Today is also the day we're announcing something exciting that's coming to LambdaGeneration soon. Rather than go on about things in an article, we created a video instead to talk about, where we've been, thoughts…
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It’s been a long time… In more ways that one.
Could this be the Myst of the Source engine?
‘INFRA’ is a freshly released first-person puzzle adventure game. It was initially created as a Portal 2 modification, but became a standalone Source engine title after Steam Greenlight success in 2013.
Last month, Infra finally came out on Steam, and so far, it has received a fairly positive response from the community, including a nomination for IndieDB’s Indie of the Year Awards in December 2015. We take a quick look.
One of the original Half-Life developers, Doug Wood, has announced that he will be retiring from Valve after working for the company for almost 19 years.
If you’ve been following the Half-Life 2 modding community lately, chances are, you’ve probably heard of an upcoming game called Prospekt.
Valve are doing a ‘content showcase’ in Seattle as a ‘follow up’ to HTC’s Vive demonstration at CES 2016, running 6th – 9th January 2016.
New potential clues have emerged relating to the arctic map from the comic, which we previously covered. Scroll down to point 8 for an update on this.
So there’s a Steam ARG going on, right now.
We don’t usually hop on the Half-Life 3 conspiracy bandwagon, but this is getting a little interesting to say the least…
Earlier in the week, we gave an exclusive sneak peek at Black Mesa’s new ‘Crossfire Update‘, which rolled out officially on Steam today, just in time for the Steam Winter Sales.
In this article we give a more detailed comparison and go over what’s new.
Remember the good old days when free weekends were only a single title? Well, those times are behind us now. Valve is throwing the biggest free weekend ever with a total of 10 titles. Shame I have midterms…
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Achievement leaks! Don’t ya love em?
There are some pretty major spoilers, folks, so watch out!
Right now, Multiplay’s Insomnia Gaming Festival is underway in the U.K. which features comepetitive play of Counter-Strike: Source, TF2 and various other games. However, they managed to stage a 5 versus 5 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive show match between VeryGames and CKRAS with over one hour of footage from the beta. Hit the jump to watch the VOD of the show match.
In addition, the official Twitter account for the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive developers recently revealed that the beta will start on 30th November 2011.
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.
Not a lot of mods shy away from Source’s traditional FPS style and mechanics, but occasionally, projects pop up that alter the gameplay completely and ultimately show just how flexible the engine can be. We’ve seem everything from real-time strategy games to zombie apocalypse simulators on the Source engine, but Dogfight may be the first aerial combat game.
Four months later, I wake up from my untimely hibernation with some news regarding Portal and handheld consoles!
Slowly, but surely.
That’s how we do Roundups here at LambdaGeneration, and how we do work in general.
At least that’s how we like to think we do it.
Dear Esther, first released in 2008 as a HL2 mod, tried to go beyond the barriers of ordinary gaming genres, by creating an experience that did not revolve around shooting or strategizing. It was an interactive, non-linear story of a stranded explorer on a barren island. Its visuals were crude, but its ideas and design were excellent, and it quickly garnered a cult following, and over 75,000 downloads.
Robert Briscoe (a level designer who’s worked on Nuclear Dawn, back when it was still a mod, and Mirror’s Edge), and all of the original designers from thechineseroom, have been working on a reimagining of Dear Esther since mid-2009.
After announcing that the mod would be going indie, with a commercial Source Engine license straight from Valve, thechineseroom have gone rather silent. But they have returned, presumably from the aforementioned abandoned island, to deliver some exciting news.
