About GameConnect

GameConnect is an international gaming community, project archive, and former indie game studio built on a shared passion for PC, Steam, Xbox and PlayStation gaming.

Founded originally in 2004, we view video games as more than a passing hobby, they represent the defining medium of modern entertainment. Our community was built by long-time gaming enthusiasts, modders, and game developers who love playing games, discussing technology, and building projects together.

Parent Organization

GameConnect serves as the gaming division of TechConnect, an established Dutch technology company founded in 2002 operating across ICT, digital marketing, smart home automation, websites, and events.

Our Evolution

  • 2004: Launched as an online gaming magazine and project hub under TechConnect.

  • 2005–2009: Expanded into SteamFriends, operating major game servers and forming one of Europe’s largest multiplayer hubs.

  • 2009-2014: Interwave was born to work on commercial games like Nuclear Dawn.

  • 2010–Present: Rebranded back to GameConnect, returning to our core roots as an inclusive, all-in-one gaming community and Discord group.

Branding & Media Guidelines

The original GameConnect logo was designed in 2004 by TechConnect. While not a registered trademark, external websites, news outlets, and community partners are welcome to use our official logos and banners when referencing GameConnect.net.

Notable Past Projects & Legacy

Over two decades, our development team and community members engineered several groundbreaking gaming tools and total conversion mods:

  • Stargate: The Last Stand

    A total conversion mod for Valve's Source engine (Half-Life 2). Built from the ground up, the mod introduced asymmetric multiplayer battles between the Goa'uld and Tau'ri factions, featuring unique class abilities, customized weaponry, and objective-based gameplay.

  • SourceBans

    A free, globally adopted server administration and banning suite for Source engine games. By integrating a web management panel with the SourceMod plugin, server owners could issue real-time global bans across multi-server networks without manually editing config files. (The project was later handed over to the open-source community).

  • Steambans

    A service designed to combat cheating across Steam servers. Operating prior to its closure in 2013, Steambans focused on empowering server administrators through active, human-verified demo analysis to detect and catalog cheaters across connected server networks.

Join the Community

Whether you played on our old Day of Defeat, Counter-Strike servers, followed our Source mods, or are just looking for a friendly place to play games on PC, Steam, or PlayStation, you are welcome here.