Left 4 Dead News & General Dicussion
Hard Eight, Whose Back Story?, Favorite Survivor? Hard Eight Double the specials, quadruple the fun! More...
The Midnight Riders need your help. We haven’t seen the Riders for a long time. We were hoping they could help us with the official release of “Save...
Split Vote! Whose back story? More...
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Week 18: Last Man on Earth Returns!, Bill?, Favorite Mutation More...
While waiting for DLC news to be announced on Game Trailers TV at 12:30am (PST) this Friday on Spike TV, we thought we would see what the community...
Week 17: Iron Man, Diagnosing Mutations, Bill? Iron Man No respawns, no restarts, no ammo, all tension! Did you vote the Mutations are too...
2 Evil Eyes, Summer Sale, and Upcoming DLC. We are starting a new feature for PC players this week. Bi-weekly community campaigns! Every two...
With the first dozen Mutations out we wanted to take a minute and talk about the Mutations. Overall the Mutations and weekly polls have been a...
Week 15: Split Vote! If you only had one thing? TANK! We split in this week’s vote. PC users went with Survival Versus and Xbox 360 users went...
Mutation Week 14: Healthpackalypse!, What else are you playing?, Pick Your Mutation, extra updates. Healthpackalypse! No health in this versus...
Mutation Week 13: Hard Eight, What is your favorite Melee Weapon?, What else are you playing? Hard Eight Double the specials, quadruple the fun!...
Four Swordsmen of the Apocalypse, What is your favorite finale? What is your favorite Melee Weapon? Four Swordsmen of the Apocalypse Four...
Voting is going strong for next week's Encore Mutation Poll. On the 360 side, Chainsaw Massacre is the runway leader with 43% of the vote. On the...
Headshot!, This is my Rifle, Pick Your Mutation Headshot! The only shot that counts is the one in the head. Shoot them in the arm, shoot...
Room For One, Everything Must Go, Favorite Weapon Class New Mutation Room For One Only room for one survivor in this rescue vehicle. More...
Chainsaw Massacre, Loving the Dark, Is Less More, and Last Video on Earth. New Mutation Chainsaw Massacre. 4 chainsaws, millions of zombies. ...
Last Man On Earth, Special Infected Love, Favorite Campaign, and Last Video on Earth. More...
Week 3 of the in game blog: New Mutation, Landslide Victory!, and what rages you? New Mutation Follow the Liter Scavenge one can at a time....
This week we introduce a new mutation, reveal poll results, put the game in your hands, have a Boomer sighting, and more! New Mutation Bleed Out...
"The Passing" is now available on the Xbox 360 and PC! The first game add-on for Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) brings the original Left 4 Dead Survivors...
The Passing introduces a series of weekly game mode events dubbed "Mutations." These are week-long runs of new gameplay modes that range from...
The first game add-on for Left 4 Dead 2 brings the original Left 4 Dead (L4D1) Survivors down south for a meeting with the L4D2 cast, while...
Celebrating the pending release of "The Passing" and the Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2 teams colliding, we have a few other world colliding events...
That's right, Internet blog readers! It's tax season here at Valve, and we need to CLEAR OUT our digital warehouses! What does that mean for you? How...
While we are finishing up on the new L4D2 DLC "The Passing", we wanted to take a minute and talk about the process we use when designing maps. ...
We like the platform wars in the forums so much that we've decided to add a new platform to the fray. Later this spring, we'll be releasing both Left...
In the first two months of Left 4 Dead 2's release, 28,981,249,043 zombies have been shot, bludgeoned, chainsawed and killed — or, for our younger...
With our last update having come out a few weeks ago and the next one a few weeks out, we wanted to let people know what we are working on. In...
For this weekend only, Microsoft is hosting a free multiplayer weekend for Left 4 Dead 2. What does this mean? You don't need to have an Xbox Live...
We are releasing the Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools and Left 4 Dead 2 Add-on Support today. PLAYERS: If you are not looking to design but play...
We have upgraded our network infrastructure to better accommodate the huge response to L4D2. 360 players will now have lag-free servers. We've also...
Spike TV just posted their nominees for the 2009 Video Game Awards, and we're proud to announce that Left 4 Dead 2 is up for six awards—Game of the...
Due to high demand for L4D2, we decided to move various street dates forward for a coordinated worldwide release—except in the UK, where this was not...
The PC version of Left 4 Dead 2, the sequel to the best-selling and critically-acclaimed co-operative multiplayer thriller, is now available via...
The "Dude, Where's My Thumb?" contest is officially closed. Congratulations to contest winner Roland Nagy, who just won himself an extremely limited...
During the production of a game, a lot of concept art gets drawn up, redrawn, thrown away, cursed at, and, occasionally, even used. There's a...
For our Left 4 Dead 1 contest giveaway, we gave all you gamers a simple proposition: take a picture of yourself or a friend doing something creative...
Starting today, L4D2's second television spot (watch the first here)—drops on TV channels across North America. It's packed with explosions, jets,...
The Left 4 Dead 2 demo is live and available for download on Xbox 360 and PC. Featuring gameplay from the first two (of five) chapters from "The...
Those of you who pre-ordered Left 4 Dead 2 (for PC on Steam or at participating retailers) now have exclusive access to the momentous event they said...
As many of you might have heard, Gabe and I went to Australia last week to try out the Source MOD made by Joe W-A, after he was able to raise the...
We just had a great showing at the Tokyo Game Show. One of Left 4 Dead 2’s level designers, Kim Swift made the trip. You can check out her...
Crash Course DLC is here! Find out what happens to Bill, Zoey, Louis, and Francis after their rooftop helicopter rescue in the No Mercy campaign. ...
Next Stop: Penny Arcade Expo We will be unveiling Dark Carnival at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle September 4-6. Dark Carnival is the...
First Stop: Comic Con During the San Diego Comic Con gamers had an opportunity to visit us in our Left 4 Dead 2 room and try out two L4D2 levels...
We're pretty excited about this next Left 4 Dead update, and we hope you will be as well. Since the Left 4 Dead Authoring Tools Beta was released...
When it came time to photograph the box art of L4D1, our art staff had three goals. One, there should be a hand in it somehow. Two, the hand should...
We've just announced that Left 4 Dead 2 is coming later this year! It's a much larger game than the original, and features new co-op and versus...
It's been an interesting week for us here on the Left 4 Dead team. This Monday, for instance, somebody accidentally told Robin Walker he had the...
The 27th Annual Golden Joystick Awards are now accepting votes for your favorite game of the year. Now, we'd of course never for a second want to...
Today we are opening the beta of the Left 4 Dead Authoring Tools to the public. It is available as a free download for all owners of the PC version...
Valve has always seen the value in gathering real-world gameplay data and using it to improve our products. Now we're hoping you'll find it as useful...
We just released the DLC on the PC and 360. This includes the new Survival Mode, The Lighthouse Survival map, and 2 new Versus campaigns. To...
Survival Mode pits your team against never ending waves of infected. Sounds simple. Just trap the survivors in a small part of a map, unleash the...
Hello. My name is Jeremy Bennett, and I'm an artist at Valve. Most gamers only ever get to see the finished product of a game cover, so we thought...
In a recent update for L4D on the PC, we provided the option for players to choose between starting a game on an Official server or the Best...
We recently updated the PC version of Left 4 Dead with some exploit fixes and Versus balancing. We are going to be releasing another small update...
With 2008 behind us, the gaming press has once again sorted through the year's releases and made up their annual lists for Game of the Year. Find out...
Aesthetics, fiction and gameplay: these are three criteria that we always consider when employing a new art direction for a game. With a game as dark...
Because Left 4 Dead is a new property for us, we wanted to provide some basic player training prior to the start of the game. Traditional in-game...
Join Left 4 Dead’s developers for a few campaigns against the zombie horde this Saturday, November 22 at 9:00 pm (EST). All you have to do is send...
Our "Dude, Where's My Thumb?" contest finishes today. We asked hopefuls in the US and UK to submit a picture of themselves in front of a Left 4 Dead...
As of midnight EST, the PC version of Left 4 Dead, Valve's zombie thriller, is now available via Steam to gamers around the globe. The title will be...
Good news on the Valve Launch Box test run! There was an electrical fire, and all the bees burned to death. The bad news: several employees also...
Less than four hours to go until Left 4 Dead goes live at the stroke of midnight (EST) on Steam, and that means the Valve Launch Box will be dragged...
We were going to title this post "Infect Your Desktop!" until someone remembered what a bad idea it is to put those words together in conjunction...
Left 4 Dead is finally here! Well, almost, anyway. The full game won’t be available for another week (November 18 on Steam and in retail stores...
One of the goals of Left 4 Dead's art direction was to capture the tone and feel of being right in the middle of a horror movie. This meant making...
Less than a week from today, everyone who pre-ordered will be playing the Left 4 Dead demo. We know! We can't believe it either. To make the wait...
As part of our ongoing marketing campaign, we're airing a pair of commercials on network and cable television, including ABC, FOX, Spike, ESPN, MTV,...
Want to win a free copy of Left 4 Dead? How about a new gaming PC? All it takes is a snapshot of you in front of a Left 4 Dead billboard, bus,...
Hot off of solving the global credit crisis, world leaders have turned to more important matters. They have declared this Sunday October 26th, World...
The guys over at Left4Dead411.com just launched a new contest today with the grand prize being four copies of Left 4 Dead. The contest is all about...
Left 4 Dead is now available for pre-purchase worldwide via Steam! As with our pre-purchase promotions for retail PC and Xbox 360, customers who...
In Germany, lucky members of the press were able to play co-op with Gabe Newell at the Leipzig Games Convention, while Torsten Zabka manned the L4D...
This weekend, expert Lego Builders from all over the world will convene in the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall for BrickCon 2008. More...
Since we announced Left 4 Dead in late 2006, the growing online community has been a great source of feedback and support during the development...
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