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Valve Addresses Left 4 Dead 2 Lag Issues

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:21:49 +0000

The Left 4 Dead franchise relies heavily upon its responsive and action-packed gameplay. As such, a seamless online experience is absolutely essential to enjoy all that the game has to offer. As of late, however, there have been a number of reports regarding lag issues with the Xbox version of the game. According to the game's official blog, Valve is aware of these issues and the necessary improvements have been made. "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 added more dedicated servers. We will continue to monitor the situation and add resources as needed." Let's hope that other development teams learn a thing or two from Valve about continually supporting their customers.

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Today's Steam Sale

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:22:00 +0000

If you held off buying Left 4 Dead 2, you can now pick it up in Valve's Early Holiday Sale, for...

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Japanese Software Sales Slow As Left 4 Dead 2 Hits Top 10

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:57:00 +0000

Japanese software unit sales slowed for the week ended November 22, as Valve Software's new Left 4 Dead 2 for Xbox 360 broke the top 10 in the region, according to tracking firm Media Create. Left 4 Dead 2, published by Electronic Arts, sold 28,000 units to capture the sixth slot. The game was able to land the top 10 position despite the Xbox 360's relatively slow hardware sales in the region. The top-selling game ...

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Rivals Miss Out By Boycotting Steamworks Games, Says Valve

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:12:00 +0000

Responding to their rivals' refusal to sell games that launch Steam at installation, Valve...

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News: Valve: boycott Steamworks, miss out

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:36:00 +0000

MW2 sold an "awful lot", says Holtman. Valve has said that digital distributors who boycott PC games because they ship with Steamworks services are missing out. Business director Jason Holtman was addressing concerns aired by Direct2Drive, Impulse and Gamersgate, all of which decided not to sell Activision's Modern Warfare 2 because integrated Steamworks tools acted as a storefront for Steam. "To our minds, we think that if you're making a good game and it's got the services a customer wants it should get out in as many channels as possible. If you have a good portal and you're good at collecting money from folks, and attracting them, there's no reason why you shouldn't be," Holtman told GamesIndustry.biz. Read more... > >

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Left 4 Dead 2 on Xbox 360 Gets Server Upgrades

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:02:00 +0000

Left 4 Dead 2 (X360) Valve upgrades its network infrastructure for the 360 version of the new shooter.

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Left 4 Dead 2 Xbox 360 Server Infrastructure Upgraded

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:58:00 +0000

Valve's Thanksgiving present for Xbox 360 Left 4 Dead 2 players? A lag-smiting infrastructure...

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News: Valve unveils Steam "early holiday sale"

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:31:00 +0000

Awesome games for amazingly little. Valve has announced its "early holiday sale" on Steam, where it plans to offer a different set of discount deals every day for the next week. Highlights of the first day include the LucasArts Premier Pack reduced from nearly 90 quid to £34.99, which is enough gaming to last you until next Christmas, let alone this one. There's also the THQ Complete Pack, a similarly extravagant bundle that features Red Faction: Guerrilla, Dawn of War II, Company of Heroes, STALKER and countless others for a frankly bonkers £26.49. That one actually looks like an error, it's so cheap. Read more... > >

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News: Valve upgrades L4D2 Xbox 360 servers

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:07:00 +0000

Blames lag issues on demand. Valve reckons it has eliminated latency issues with the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead 2 following a series of tech changes. "We have upgraded our network infrastructure to better accommodate the huge response to L4D2," the developer wrote on its blog. "360 players will now have lag-free servers. We've also added more dedicated servers. We will continue to monitor the situation and add resources as needed." Read more... > >

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Steam Kicks Off Early Holiday Sale

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:15:00 +0000

A few days ahead of Black Friday, Steam is having an early holiday sale of its own. Valve has just announced that many of the service's most popular games will be getting steep discounts, including Dragon Age: Origins and Batman: Arkham Asylum . The current sale features deals on seven titles, with price cuts ranging from 25 percent to 80 percent off. It'll run until Friday at 8 AM PST, at which point a new set of deals will become available. Definitely worth keeping an eye on Steam if you're looking to expand your library on the cheap. In addition to the games that are currently on sale, Valve will also be offering deeply discounted publisher packs. At the moment, it's possible to pick up either the LucasArts Premier Pack or the THQ Complete Pack for $49.00.

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Alienware Gaming PCs To Come Pre-Loaded With Steam

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:01:00 +0000

Valve Software and Dell's high-end gaming PC arm Alienware inked a deal that will bring leading digital distribution platform Steam to Alienware's line of gaming systems, the companies announced Wednesday. Currently, Steam is the dominant digital distribution platform on the market, and with the deal, Valve's service seemingly gets first dibs on new Alienware gamers. Steam will come on Alienware desktops including Area-51 and Aurora, as well as M17x and M15x laptops. Valve's acclaimed Portal ...

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Left 4 Dead 2 - PC - GR Review

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:02:49 +0000

Twice as undead as before. I guarantee! If there’s one universal truth about zombies, it’s that there’s never just one . So it was inevitable that Valve would follow up last year’s out-of-nowhere crowd pleaser Left 4 Dead with a sequel. But just like seeing a zombie get back up and scramble for your brain pan after you’ve already shot it repeatedly in the head, fans of the first game weren’t expecting a sequel to pop up this soon. [image1]There’s a reason class reunions don’t happen on a yearly basis. Not much changes in the course of a year. In Left 4 Dead 2 the core concept remains firmly intact—four survivors winding their way from safe-house to safe-house until they get to a rescue point—and many of the first game’s mechanics and features have only been incrementally retooled and refined. Over the past year, the zombie hordes have developed surprisingly discerning palettes. Where other zombies raid third-world ...

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Left 4 Dead 2 - Xbox360 - GR Review

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:32:33 +0000

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Left 4 Dead 2 Patched On PC, Addresses Online Issues And Performance

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:49:00 +0000

Valve is not a company to sit around twiddling their fingers. As with most games these days, Left 4 Dead 2 didn't come out of the gate "perfect," but Valve has already issued a patch for the PC version to address some issues that users have been reporting. Gamers who purchased Left 4 Dead 2 will automatically see the patch applied when Steam is booted up. The major changes in this patch include... Fixed performance problem when rendering lots of decals, notably when fighting tanks with shotguns Fixed rcon response not working on Linux dedicated servers Fixed matchmaking problem matching into Advanced and Expert games Fix bug that would cause other specials to try to pummel a player a Charger disconnects or reconnects Fixed versus mode results panel being cut off in transition stats screen in non-english Found games: fixed non-player entries drawing the wrong type of icon in the selected item name label Game mode selector on main ...

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Left 4 Dead 2 Review

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:34:24 +0000

Like its predecessor, Left 4 Dead 2 is a sort of hyper-violent personality test masquerading as a cooperative zombie survival shooter. If you want to know which of your mates you should trust with the water bottle after shipwrecking on a desert island, simply invite them over for a bout and let the game’s dynamic challenge factor weasel out hidden traits and flaws, profiling each player in sickly green strokes of undead gore. Where other shooters are static, unreactive structures, brittle sandcastles awaiting the casually lobbed football of human intervention, the Left 4 Dead games give exactly as good as they get, altering the quantity, quality and positioning of enemies, weapon drops and obstacles in response to player behavior. Lone wolves will be pounced upon by terrifying cat-like Hunters, cowardly hangers-on showered in Horde-attracting vomit by repulsive Boomers, layabouts lassoed and dragged off by elusive Smokers. After half an hour’s play, you should have a lot of ...

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Valve Gets In To The Season Of Giving

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:31:00 +0000

As in, us giving them more of our money! Big Download noticed that the Valve Store has been...

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Left 4 Dead 2 Gets Patched on PC

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:47:00 +0000

Left 4 Dead 2 (PC) Valve's awesome shooter gets an update over the weekend, fixes some matchmaking issues.

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Left 4 Dead 2 patch is out

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:45:00 +0000

PC update sorts performance and matchmaking problems. Valve's released a Left 4 Dead 2 PC patch via Steam. Click here to read the full article

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Valve Releases Left 4 Dead 2 Patch

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:28:00 +0000

Valve has announced that they've issued the first patch for Left 4 Dead 2 , fixing a number of bugs ranging from matchmaking issues with getting into Advance and Expert games to performance issues with rendering decals. The patch will automatically be applied the next time you load up your Steam client. Hopefully, with this bit of housekeeping out of the way, Valve can now get around to releasing the SDK for the game so gamers no longer have to engage in multi-step processes to mod it. A full list of fixes for this patch can be seen below.

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Valve cracks down on MW2 import keys

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:40:37 +0000

Cheap Steam keys banned

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Left 4 Dead 2 PC Patched

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:11:00 +0000

A most unusual Saturday update from Valve: Fixed performance problem when rendering lots of...

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Stardock Estimates Steam has 70 Percent of Digital Market Share

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Valve's Steam service has undeniably emerged as the most well-known digital distribution platform for PC games, but just how much of the digital pie do they consume? Gamasutra reports that according to internal estimates from Stardock, publisher of Sins of a Solar Empire and owner of the Impulse distribution service, Steam takes 70 percent of the market share. "Our estimation is that Steam -- as the current market leader -- enjoys approximately 70 percent of the overall digital distribution market with Impulse at 10 percent and all others combined at 20 percent in terms of actual dollars generated per month," wrote Stardock chief Brad Wardell in their 2009 customer report. Wardell goes on to estimate that digital distribution will have contributed 25 percent of revenue "for a typical PC game publisher on a new title" in 2009. One of the problems in making Impulse more competitive with Steam, Wardell explained, is that ...

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Valve Banning Grey Import Modern Warfare 2 CD Keys

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:22:00 +0000

If you were chuffed at saving a few bob by buying a Modern Warfare 2 CD Key through a Grey Import...

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PC dominated by Steam sales

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:35:32 +0000

Valve platform dominates market

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News: Steam has 70 per cent of PC pie

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:05:00 +0000

Digital rival says Valve's streets ahead. Brad Wardell, boss of Stardock and digital distribution platform Impulse, reckons Valve's Steam is miles ahead of any competition in the PC gaming download market. "Our estimation is that Steam - as the current market leader - enjoys approximately 70 per cent of the overall digital distribution market with Impulse at 10 per cent and all others combined at 20 per cent in terms of actual dollars generated per month," wrote Wardell in a company report this week (spotted by Gamasutra). Wardell also feels Valve is beginning to monopolise on its position by integrating Steamworks tools into games at an early development stage and essentially locking them out from other digital distribution platforms. Read more... > >

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Steam dominates 70% of PC download market

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:46:00 +0000

But Stardock's Impulse second biggest, claims erm Stardock boss. While it's pretty much impossible to give exact sales figures for digital distribution (no-one's willing to fess up to their own figures), publisher and Impulse owner Stardock has estimated Valve's Steam controls a whopping 70 per cent of the market. Click here to read the full article

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L4D2 Bikers to Star in DLC?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:28:00 +0000

Left 4 Dead 2 (PC) Website registered by Valve could hint at Left 4 Dead 2 DLC.

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The Midnight Riders May Be Next L4D Survivors

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:44:00 +0000

Among others, we've been able to battle zombies as a high-school football coach and a Vietnam vet in Left 4 Dead . Could the Midnight Riders be next? Fans will recognize the The Midnight Riders as a fake southern rock band featured throughout Left 4 Dead 2's "Dark Carnival" campaign. Posters promoting the group list an official website, which leads to what appears to be a teaser site registered by Valve. There's already speculation that the southern rockers will be Left 4 Dead's next group of survivors, possibly starring in a DLC pack. If that turns out to be the case, expect more information early next year.

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Valve Secretly Launches Midnight Riders Website -- Left 4 Dead 2 DLC?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:27:00 +0000

We may have our first hint at where Valve is going with the first slate of downloadable content for Left 4 Dead 2 . Fans have discovered a website for the motorcycle-riding metal band Midnight Riders , which, according to official records , was registered by Valve on September 10 and teases "coming soon." Left 4 Dead 2 players might remember the Midnight Riders from the end of the creepy Dark Carnival campaign. Survivors are tasked with turning on the Midnight Riders' stage as they try to escape. The prospect of smacking down zombies with a biker gain...oh my.

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Fan Creates NES-Styled Left 4 Dead "De-Make"

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:53:53 +0000

In the face of successful oldschool titles and remakes such as Mega Man 9 and Konami's ReBirth series, the developers at Valve have decided to beat these old industry hands at their own game-- by taking their hit franchise Left 4 Dead into the field of 8-bit gaming! Two players! Up to eight zombies on a map at a time! It's zombie-fighting fun like you've never seen it before, only it's the same as it ever was! Okay, in actuality, this is a fan-made game by "PixelForce" which is supposed to be available for the PC come January 4th. They plan for the game to have all five maps of all four campaigns included, and you can find out more by checking out the YouTube description.

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Stardock Reveals Impulse, Steam Market Share Estimates

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:32:00 +0000

Stardock, publisher of Sins of a Solar Empire and owner of distribution service Impulse, said it believes Impulse rests in second place after Valve's popular Steam in the digital distribution rankings in terms of market share by revenue. "Our estimation is that Steam - as the current market leader - enjoys approximately 70 percent of the overall digital distribution market with Impulse at 10 percent and all others combined at 20 percent in terms of ...

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Valve: Devs Should Experiment With Post-Release Content Using Digital Distribution

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:08:00 +0000

Digital distribution and the "games as a service" model opens up freedom in pricing, but it also gives developers opportunities to connect with their audiences and take risks in ways that were never previously possible, says Valve's business development director Jason Holtman -- the traditional methods of post-release support are merely one option. "Everybody knows that the entertainment industry is fundamentally changing these days, and it's changing because everyone is connecting, and they're becoming connected ...

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Valve discuss online pricing of games

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:57:33 +0000

Prices can easily go up, using Steam

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Left 4 Dead 2 DLC teased?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:16:00 +0000

Valve 'Midnight Riders' teaser website goes live. A mysterious Valve teaser website has gone live, sparking speculation that it could be hinting at the sequel's upcoming DLC. Click here to read the full article

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News: Valve teasing L4D2's Midnight Riders

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:38:00 +0000

DLC? Plus: Jimmy Gibbs Jr. zombie. Valve has set up a website dedicated to the Midnight Riders, the rock band whose light show saves the day in Left 4 Dead 2's Dark Carnival campaign. The teaser site (thanks Destructoid) consists of a splash image of the band and the words "Coming soon". Whatever could it mean? Meanwhile, an enterprising young so-and-so on the Valve forums has uncovered a Jimmy Gibbs Jr. zombie hidden in the L4D2 game files - Gibbs Jr. being central to the opening campaign, Dead Center - and found a way to reintegrate him. There's even some dialogue for the survivors. Read more... > >

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News: Valve: Raise price and digi games still sell

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:52:00 +0000

Dev discusses price variation on Steam. Publishers and developer are free to drop and raise the price of digitally released games without any penalty to future sales or consumer loyalty, according to Valve's head of Steam, Jason Holtman, as reported on GamesIndustry.biz. Speaking at the Montreal International Game Summit this week, Holtman said the digital market flips traditional retail thinking on its head, and that a game discounted for a short time can still go back to full price and increase sales after the promotion. "In a connected world with a connected game it's very different and it bucks some of the traditional trends on the way people think about pricing," said Holtman. Read more... > >

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Be Feedback's Question Of The Week!

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:54:00 +0000

We have passed the storm that is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 only to find ourselves knee-deep in two other major releases: Valve's (somewhat) controversial zombie sequel Left 4 Dead 2 and the widely anticipated Assassin's Creed II . We'll be tackling both games on Feedback , but we also need a little help from you, too. Do you want to be Feedback's question of the week? Submit away and get the chance to have your name and question read aloud and answered by the Feedback crew.

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What Do You Think Of Left 4 Dead 2?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Steam opened the floodgates last night. You probably snuck over to Best Buy to pick up a retail copy on your lunch break. Have you had a chance to pop into Valve's zombie sequel yet? I reviewed the game for G4 (and, as you might expected, loved it), which means I've already dumped many more hours into Left 4 Dead 2 than you have! Take that, Internet. But you'll all surpass me soon enough. If you've been able to give it a spin, what do you think so far?

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Left 4 Dead 2 Review

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:23:26 +0000

Zombies go wild in Valve's bloody sequel.

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Valve's Holtman: Digital Direct Gives Developers More Pricing Freedom

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0000

"Service is becoming everything," claimed Valve's Jason Holtman during a Montreal International Game Summit keynote. "It's going to impact every line of business and every line as you think about your game." As the director of business development at the company responsible for Steam, the PC digital distribution service that now boasts more than 20 million users and 950 games, Holtman has an intimate familiarity with the avenues being made available to game developers by ...

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Left 4 Dead 2 launch screens

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:57:00 +0000

A 'fresh' batch of zombie repulsiveness to coincide with this Friday's release. Valve's brilliant panicky co-op thriller is out this Friday, and to increase the finger-chomping (literally) tension, EA has buried us beneath another large batch of gory screens. Click here to read the full article

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Adam Sessler And Patrick Klepek Discuss Left 4 Dead 2

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Valve's decision to move forward on a sequel to Left 4 Dead 2 so quickly surprised just about everybody, but there's a reason people are so trustworthy of Valve: they're usually right. Patrick Klepek sat down with Adam Sessler this week to discuss Patrick's review of Left 4 Dead 2 , which he scored an impressive 4 out of 5. The game's a little uneven in spots, but there's plenty to like about Left 4 Dead 2 . Watch Larger Version | Watch HD Version

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Launch Primer -- Left 4 Dead 2

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Ever find yourself in a situation where all of your friends are talking about the latest and greatest game, and you can't contribute to the conversation because you haven't been paying attention? Solve that problem with our Launch Primers: everything you need to know (except the spoilers) about a game that's about to be released. Left 4 Dead 2 Xbox 360, PC MSRP: $59.99 (Xbox 360), $49.99 (PC) ESRB Rating: Mature All Left 4 Dead 2 Content Videos | Previews | Screenshot Galleries | News Stories What kind of game is it? Left 4 Dead 2 is a first-person shooter that pits you and three other characters against a seemingly perpetual barrage of zombies. Who's the developer? Valve is based in Bellevue, WA (just outside of Seattle). Half-Life is the game that made them famous, and Half-Life 2 , Counter-Strike , TeamFortress 2 , Portal , and ...

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Zombie Fan Slowly Rebuilding Left 4 Dead As Old School 8-Bit Pixel Shooter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:43:00 +0000

Valve inspires its fans to do crazy things. Take Eric Ruth, who's made it his personal mission to recreate Left 4 Dead from scratch in the context of a top-down, 8-bit action game. So far, Ruth has finished the first campaign of the original Left 4 Dead , the hospital-based No Mercy, but he's aiming to release a completed product, spanning all four campaigns and including all of the special infected, around January 4. He's pretty much building the whole project by himself. "Valve doesn't know about it yet," wrote Ruth on his YouTube page , "but I'm sure (with their love of community creations) that they will find this mildly amusing at worst, and hilarious at best." The world would be better with more 8-bit recreations of modern games. To watch a video of Ruth's progress so far, head to YouTube .

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Gamer Holiday Cards Now Available From Valve

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:41:46 +0000

With many winter holidays just around the corner, Valve is kicking off the season by releasing festive, game-themed greeting cards. The company is selling greeting cards packages (fittingly titled the "2009 Holiday Card Collection" at $15.95 apiece that depict scenes inspired by some of its most popular titles: Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, and Team Fortress. The picture above is one such example. If you would like to purchase one of these, click here to visit Valve's store.

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Left 4 Dead 2 review in: "Must-buy multiplayer"

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:58:00 +0000

OXM delivers first verdict on Valve sequel. The first Left 4 Dead 2 review is in, via the pages of Official Xbox Magazine UK. Click here to read the full article

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News: Valve: L4D2 boycott was a 'fight inside the family'

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:14:16 +0000

Press tried to turn it into an 'us versus them', Valve claims.

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News: Valve says exactly when L4D2 unlocks

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:10:00 +0000

Early doors tomorrow morning on PC. Valve has said that the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2 will be available from Steam at 5am GMT tomorrow, 17th November. The game's available to pre-order and pre-load from the developer's digital distribution service now. In Europe, PC and Xbox 360 owners can pick up boxed versions this Friday, 20th November. Read more... > >

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Send Your Season's Greetings with Valve's Kickass Holiday Cards

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:28:00 +0000

If there's one thing the videogames industry is good at, it's figuring out a way for any normal thing a gamer does in their life to include videogames. Case in point: Valve's brand new holiday greeting cards, featuring amazing Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 themes ( via Destructoid). Seriously, who wouldn't want a holiday greeting card of a TF2 sniper disguised as an adorable snowman? There are four different collections to choose from on Valve's store : One for Left 4 Dead, one for Left 4 Dead 2 , and two collections for Team Fortress 2. Each were drawn by artist Alexandria Neonakis, and come with 10 different 5"x7" cards for $15.95. A few more pictures of the various collections follow:

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Left 4 Dead 2 Survivor Profiles & High-Res Wallpaper

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:50:00 +0000

With just three days and four hours until the release of Left 4 Dead 2, Valve's released profiles...

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