Left 4 Dead 2
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VideoVideo: The best end songs ever
Sing when you're winning (at video games).
FeatureValve's Chet Faliszek on Steam Greenlight, Counter-Strike and the future of Left 4 Dead
"Will you make Left 4 Dead 3?"
Southern fried gold.
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Half-Life 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead 2 and more now feature 4K enhancements on Xbox One X
Orange you glad you waited?
Portal 2 co-writer Jay Pinkerton's back at Valve
This was a triumph.
Valve issues 95,000 bans in just seven days
Buh-bye, cheaters!
Influential ex-Valve writer Chet Faliszek joins Surgeon Simulator studio
To direct a "PC action co-op game".
Former Valve employee is suing the company for $3.1m
Alleges developer exploited minors for free labour, discriminated against transgender staff.
Left 4 Dead 2 added to Xbox One's backwards compatible library
Along with Halo Wars and Soul Calibur 2 HD.
Left 4 Dead characters join Zombie Army Trilogy
Bill for free.
VideoVideo: The best end songs ever
Sing when you're winning (at video games).
EGX Rezzed 2015 announces Valve developer session
Plus! Heat Signature! Prison Architect! The Banner Saga! More!
Left 4 Dead 2 is no longer censored in Australia on Steam
It's also 75 per cent off this week.
There's a new Left 4 Dead... for Japanese arcades
UPDATE: And here's a trailer. "Run and shot"!
Source 2 images show next-gen Left 4 Dead 2 prototype - report
Valve presentation leaks online.
This is an unboxing of Valve's Steam Machine prototype
The box looks better than the Machine.
Gabe Newell confirms Linux-based Valve hardware still alive
UPDATE: Valve to make two other announcements next week.
Left 4 Dead 3 and Source 2 spotted during tour of Valve's office
But no mention of...
Resident Evil 6 / Left 4 Dead 2 crossover announced
UPDATE: First footage invades.
FeatureSaturday Soapbox: Loving the science, but don't forget the art
The rise of data-driven development has all sorts of benefits, but it shouldn't run the show.
Left 4 Dead 2 Workshop goes live
Thousands of community campaigns and items inbound.
Gabe Newell named as next AIAS Hall of Famer
Oh they'll induct anyone have they no standards etc..
This week on Outside Xbox
Talking Assassin's Creed 3 with Steven Masters, zombies with Chet Faliszek and Minecraft with our pumpkins.
Valve wants you for Steam for Linux test
UPDATE: Beta to include Serious Sam 3: BFE, Portal and Team Fortress 2.
FeatureValve's Chet Faliszek on Steam Greenlight, Counter-Strike and the future of Left 4 Dead
"Will you make Left 4 Dead 3?"
Industry offers mixed response to new Australian R18+ rating
Guidelines say that games may have "greater impact" on minors than film.
Steam on GNU/Linux: Do non-free DRM games defeat the point?
GNU creator says it's "unethical", but that pros outweigh the cons.
Valve opens Euro office, updates Steam terms
Disallows class action lawsuits, improves individual claims.
Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream Xbox 360 release date
Delayed add-on floods in on Friday.
Payday: The Heist's free Left 4 Dead map is out now on Steam
Before the devil knows you're dead.
Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream DLC hits PC, Mac, delayed on Xbox 360
Valve working with Microsoft on a release.
Steam and Left 4 Dead 2 coming to Linux
Courtesy of the new Valve Linux team.
Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream DLC emerges this month
When there's no more room in beta, the dead shall walk the earth.
Valve: Payday: The Heist - No Mercy is NOT a Left 4 Dead prequel
"It is not telling the origins of the Infection and is not canon."
Payday The Heist blending with Left 4 Dead
"It is so exciting it will have some players check into the hospital before we are done."
Steam client coming to Linux later this year - report
Left 4 Dead 2 seen running on open source PC OS.
Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive support Razer Hydra PC motion controller
Added to Left 4 Dead 2, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and 250 Steam games.
Portal 2 PC outperformed console versions
But vice versa for Left 4 Dead.
Valve dangles early Left 4 Dead 2 DLC
Wants your help squashing bugs.
Left 4 Dead Cold Stream DLC enters beta
Valve demands your feedback.
Valve on that Dead Island trailer
"The violence towards kids is unpleasant."
Why Chet Faliszek is Valve's Mr Awesome
"I walk around the hall with my iron fist."
Valve announces more Left 4 Dead 2 DLC
Out after Portal 2.
FeatureFingers on the pulse
Which games get your heart racing the most?
Infected VGAs tease sets tongues wagging
Left 4 Dead set for PlayStation 3?
Valve once worked on "flying fairy game"
Then gave up and made Left 4 Dead.
New Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 DLC inbound
Three-map campaign coming in October.
L4D2 tweaked in new update
Changes to Charger, Tank and friendly fire.
L4D2 mutation becomes permanent
Plus: Follow the Liter to try this week.
Valve rolls out new L4D2 play mode
The Passing owners get to "Bleed Out".
L4D2's The Passing out on Thursday
Includes weekly game mode "mutations".
Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing priced
Still down for release this "spring".
The Passing to include "new game modes"
Left 4 Dead 2 add-on sounds substantial.
Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing gets tagline
Plus: details on what happens.
L4D multiplayer to work cross-platform
PC vs. Mac from next month.
Valve teases forthcoming announcement
Left 4 Dead image with fruity flavour.
Faliszek: Valve will "look at" PS3 support
"I'm sure down the road we'll do it."
Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing in March
Plus L4D1 add-on the following month.
Valve reveals L4D2 Versus changes
Infected bots in, auto-spawn out.
Gabe Newell wins GDC Pioneer Award
For work on Steam and influential games.
L4D2 free for XBL Silvers next week
Not all that glitters is Gold.
L4D2 toolset released on PC
Build or just play, lazy.
Valve announces The Passing for L4D2
Fresh campaign boasts original survivors.
Valve fixes L4D2, updates TF2
Not so much a patch as a bandage.
DSi LL gives Nintendo Japanese bump
While Left 4 Dead 2 does suprisingly well.
Valve upgrades L4D2 Xbox 360 servers
Blames lag issues on demand.
UK charts: Assassin's Creed II denied
Modern Warfare 2 still reigns supreme.
Valve teasing L4D2's Midnight Riders
DLC? Plus: Jimmy Gibbs Jr. zombie.
Valve: Raise price and digi games still sell
Dev discusses price variation on Steam.
Aussie censor: L4D2 too "realistic"
And zombies look like humans! Filth!
Left 4 Dead 2
Southern fried gold.
Valve says exactly when L4D2 unlocks
Early doors tomorrow morning on PC.
L4D1 gets 4v4 competitive matchmaking
Plus: XBL Silver users get L4D2 demo.
Left 4 Dead 2 demo on Xbox Live
For Gold subs now. Silver to follow.
VideoEG Expo 2009 Developer Sessions: Left 4 Dead 2 Q&A
The Valve man takes all your questions.
VideoEG Expo 2009 Developer Sessions: Valve shows Left 4 Dead 2's Hard Rain
Faliszek talks through L4D2 campaign.
Get Bill's L4D hat in Team Fortress 2
Another pre-order incentive for L4D2.
Faliszek details L4D2 Avatar Awards
T-shirts, health kits, "cool stuff".
EG Expo 2009: Valve's Chet Faliszek
The Left 4 Dead 2 developer walks us through Hard Rain and answers loads of questions.
Digital FoundryLeft 4 Dead 2 demo performance analysis
Digital Foundry tests the end of the world.
Xbox Avatar accessory unlocks in L4D2?
Digging around demo suggests as much.
Left 4 Dead 2 pre-order demo on Live
PC version held back to today.
Left 4 Dead 2 Steam demo tomorrow
For pre-purchasers only.
Valve dates and details L4D2 demo
Co-op and has all-new infected, tools.
Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns confirmed
Plus Achievements list.
L4D2/Mass Effect 2 PS3 listings an "error"
EA Russia left red-faced.
Last two Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns named?
Taiwanese site shows posters, straplines.
Valve unveils fourth Left 4 Dead 2 mode
Team-based can-gathering in Scavenge.
Left 4 Dead 2
Round-based quick-fire multiplayer.
Modder flying Valve boss to Australia
Raised $3000 to show off L4D campaign.
Left 4 Dead: Crash Course out next week
Plus: Xbox 360 patch now, L4D2 demo date.
FeatureValve's Chet Faliszek
On how Left 4 Dead 2 works and why.
Left 4 Dead 2: Specials, Weapons and Tactics
Out of the frying pan and into the face.
Left 4 Dead 2: Swamp Fever and Dark Carnival
Night of the gibbing head.
Left 4 Dead 2's Dark Carnival unveiled
Jockey infected! Clowns! Electric guitar!
Left 4 Dead 2
You must be this tall... TO DIE!
L4D2 Fairgrounds campaign revealed
Where the merry go round.
EA splashes nine games over the Expo
L4D2, NFS, Dragon Age, Brutal, more!
L4D2 racism accusation "insanity"
Valve baffled by New Orleans dig.
Depeche Mode sneak into L4D2
People are people. Zombies are zombies.
L4D2 boycotter "invented" Spitter
But accepts it was probably coincidence.
Left 4 Dead 2's Swamp Fever detailed
Mud men! Spitters! Riot cops! Water!
New Left 4 Dead 2 campaign at Comic-Con
First Swamp Fever image inside.
Valve attempting L4D1/L4D2 cross-play
Plus: a cricket bat. How's that?
Pre-order L4D2, get early demo
That's a brainy idea.
Left 4 Dead 2
Look left for our latest hands-on.
Left 4 Dead 2
Axe to grind.
L4D2 pre-orders twice that of original
Some fans evidently not cheesed off.
FeatureLeft 4 Dead 2
Valve's Doug Lombardi on frying pans and forum wars.
Gabe Newell restates L4D1 support
"We aren't changing our plans."
L4D community rallies against sequel
15,000 boycott Valve's "money grab".
E3: Valve not "closing the book" on L4D
More DLC coming in "fairly near term".
E3: Valve explains L4D2 exclusivity
And won't stop supporting the first one.
E3: Left 4 Dead 2
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
E3: Left 4 Dead 2 detailed
Wandering Witch, gauntlet moments...
E3: Left 4 Dead 2
PC and 360 on 17th November.
E3: Crackdown 2 and Left 4 Dead 2
360 exclusives. Plus new Epic game.