Valve have announced the new game mode for Left 4 Dead 2 they have been keeping secret for so long and the aim is to, well, scavenge. Named Scavenger mode, the survivors have to find petrol cans scattered around the area, of which there are 16 in each map, and they then have to take to the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 2, 2009
Rewind to May this year. It’s E3 and Valve has turned up ready to show off a new game they’ve been working on. Most people think that finally Half Life 2: Episode 3 will be announced – it has been nearly two years now. Then during Microsoft’s conference footage appears of a zombified New Orleans. Fans [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Valve have announced the release date of Crash Course, the second downloadable content for Left 4 Dead, set for a worldwide release on the Xbox360 and PC on 29 September. This installment bridges the gap between No Mercy and Death Toll spanning over two chapters. While there is the option for campaign and survival mode, the main focus is on versus mode with the length tailored to [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 12, 2009
According Left 4 Dead fan Walking_Target, Valve is planning downloadable content for the original game after “Crash Course.” It could be “a new Special Infected, a new Campaign or new Weapon(s),” he writes on the Steam group. “It’s definitely one of the three, perhaps more,” he added. “Crash Course” was released Thursday and Left 4 Dead 2 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 13, 2008
Killing zombies has always been fun, right? But after you’ve played through a survival-horror game involving zombies, you come to expect where a zombie will be and where they won’t be; the suspense and surprise fades after a while. Not with this game, though. With Left 4 Dead, there is a unique AI algorithm (aptly named [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 8, 2008
Achievement Hoard is a (hopefully) recurring series that tackles the most challenging Xbox 360 achievements, arming you with the strategies you need to stack your Gamerscore. Also keep an eye out for the Left 4 Dead review coming this week; it won’t be what you expect. In an multi-leveled pun of epic proportions, the first installment [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Need a preview of the impending zombie apocalypse? Lucky for you, the Left 4 Dead demo is available right now on Xbox 360 and PC. The demo features the first level of the game, and realistically, most of you got no further than the title before immediately leaving to start the download. Now if you’ll excuse [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 1, 2008
As I walked by the Valve booth, the television sets in front of the Left 4 Dead booth were not fully occupied. This greatly confused me, so I stood and watched a trio of players lay waste to the impending undead horde since I was unsure if the available controller was broken. But when “Francis [...]
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