Someone decided to edit a music video together of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” but used the game Left 4 Dead for inspiration. If you watch the video with a group of people, there won’t be a dry eye in the room.Make sure you watch out for 1:00 minute mark when the lyrics talk about a rainbow — totally a beautiful thing.
Valve, take note. You should definitely do something like this for the next trailer for Left 4 Dead 2.
Update: After the jump, we posted the poster for the next chapter of the game.
Left 4 Dead is probably on its way out, and pretty soon Valve will ultimately stop supporting the title because of the sequel, which is coming this November. What seems like the last downloadable content for the game, Valve has announced a new campaign called “Crash Course.” The new content will include new levels that bridge the stories between “No Mercy” and “Death Toll,” and it’ll be available this September.
According the Valve, “Crash Course” will be a tad bit longer than its predecessors and gives gamers about an extra 30 minutes of blowing away the undead. The studio has also recored brand new dialogue from the original cast, which should really help make the content feel like a brand new story.
If you own the first-person-shooter on the Xbox 360, it will set you back about $7 (560 MS Points). However, owning the PC literally pays off because the DLC will be free on the computer. (more…)
How the hell did this take so long? A big portion of the modding community are younger immature teens who think nothing more than sex. Meaning, anything they create, including mods, will probably have something that involves sex or nakedness. And this is exactly what has now happened in the Left 4 Dead community.
Someone decided to rip the clothes off of Zoey and have her blasts zombies in the process. They even made her breasts jiggle, in a classy matter of course, as she runs throughout the levels.
This got me thinking. Do you know what would be excellent? A Left 4 Dead porno. Wait, they already have one?
Want to see Zoey naked (of course you do)? Watch a video after the jump (NSFW).
One of the bigger announcements Microsoft made last week during their annual E3 press briefing, was the sequel to the highly praised game Left 4 Dead, was coming out this fall. Generally speaking, when a second installment for a popular game like Left 4 Dead is revealed, fans of the first title are over excited. However, this isn’t the case for Left 4 Dead 2.
Since it was shown to the public for the first time, Valve has received a bit of a backlash — especially in the Steam Community. The group, who named themselves NO-L4D2, have created a protest and are calling for a boycott of the release for Left 4 Dead 2. “The Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott is a group of individuals who have pledged to boycott Valve’s upcoming release of Left 4 Dead 2 on November 17th, 2009,” the protest group wrote. “We have assembled a manifesto outlining the basic consensus of many members of our community.” If you want to read their manifesto, check it out after the jump.
Heading into the weekend, the group had about 11,000 potential customers who are committed not to purchase Left 4 Dead 2, until their needs were met. Now, that the number of individuals has considerably grown and the count is up to 21,000+.
We should also note, another group who call themselves Pro-L4D2, are individuals who support the release of Left 4 Dead 2. Although, their numbers have yet to exceed 10, and only have 8 currently committed. (more…)
If you are of the crazies who didn’t purchase Left 4 Dead, I have to ask you question: “Why?” I mean, it’s easily one of the best games to come out in 2008, and on top of that, one of the more original first-person shooters to ever come out. With that said, starting at 12:01am GMT, Valve and Steam is giving you a opportunity to play the horror-FPS for free!
Of course, there is a small catch; you can only play the game for 24 hours. Meaning at 12:01am on Saturday, the game will lock and you will have to buy to continue. But until then, its free, with no small print.
If you decided to take advantage of this offer, I have to warn you — you’ll be spending $39.99 on Saturday. It’s that good and additive.
During GDC in San Francisco yesterday, Valve talked briefly about the overall sales for Left 4 Dead. According to the company, the survival-horror game has already sold about 2.5 million copies since it debuted last year. The number reflects the Xbox 360 and the retail PC version, and does NOT count the number of downloads from Steam. I assume the number is considerably larger, because the sales do not acknowledge Steam, which last month Valve announced that sales jumped 3000% on the service, when they slashed the price to $20.
This is great news for fans of the FPS, because the chances are extremely high that we will see a sequel at one point down the line.
User on flickr and an employee at a small video game company Ashelia, birthday happened to fall on the same day Left 4 Dead was released in the stores. Her two friends, Ryan and Dave, decided to honor her b-day and the launch of the great first-person shooter, with this disgustingly detailed cake. Yes, the picture up to is in fact a dessert — and not an actual decaying hand. The cake itself is a recreation of the hand that graced the cover of the actual game. As cool as it is, I’m not sure I could eat it. I love cake, but hate it when it looks like a corpse’s body-part. How about you guys?
Forest Gump, Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan are considered masterpieces in cinema. But they also have one thing in common also, they have a porn parody buddy. That’s right, if you head down to your local XXX video store (or internet), you can find; Forest Hump, Schindler’s Fist and Saving Ryan’s Privates.
Lately, video games are starting to join the porn parody movement and Left 4 Dead is the newest title to do so. The porn movie, which is ingeniously named Left 4 Head, actually has a plot — ya, it’s one of those you fast forward. The movie follows the only female protagonists in the game, Zoey. She is the lone survivor of a zombie apocalypse, when she is suddenly attacked by a Smoker zombie with his tentacle…and yes, when we say tentacle, we really mean his penis.
Up top is an actual picture from the movie, right before Zoey is attacked by the deadly pee-pee. Is it me, or did Zoey gain a little weight? Like seriously, if the world was overrun by the undead, when did she have time to eat? I guess the stars are not ‘A+’ porn girls…
During his DICE keynote speech, Valve’s co-founder Gabe Newell announced some staggering sales figures for Left 4 Dead. According to Newell, when the company decided to slash 50% off the game on the digital distribution service Steam, sales increased to about 3000%. No, we didn’t add an extra zero — we really mean 3000%.
At the same time, new Steam customers jumped 1600% — a direct reflection from Left 4 Dead taking the price cut. Not only that, sales for Team Fortress 2 roused over 100%. I guess making Left 4 Dead for $25 wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
Have you been thinking about buying Left 4 Dead for the PC, but for some reason you haven’t pulled the trigger? If you have, then you might want to head over to Steam and pick up the game for half off — for a limited time.
That is right; what could easily be one of the best games of the year, is only $24.99. Now, if your PC is powerful enough (which is should be), then don’t miss out on this offer. Plus with new downloadable content soon to be available for free, there really isn’t a reason to miss out on this great deal.
Somehow Markus Persson’s de-made Valve’s Left 4 Dead into a simple Java game. The game, which is cleverly titled ‘Left 4K Dead‘ was built to compete in the Java 4K Coding Competition. Although it’s nearly as fun as it’s big brother — it’s certainly additive nonetheless.
Persson did a fantastic job of setting the tone of the game. By giving it a grainy look, as well as having a flashlight; any fan of the actual game should enjoy this. The game controls a lot like Smash TV, but with a flashlight.
We’ve shown countless videos and screenshots of Valve’s next first person shooter Left 4 Dead. However, everything that has been shown up till this point hasn’t really show-off the pure insanity of the gameplay.
Thanks to G4, we now have embedded a video that features almost 15 minutes of nothing but gameplay. What you get is an idea of what so many people have been talking about since it was first debuted earlier in the year — fantastic mindless shooting.
However, the game isn’t perfect and the video certainly shows it. First and foremost, it looks like the player is playing in the single player mode. The biggest thing we stress about the game is that it isn’t designed for just one person to play through it. It absolutely should be played online with real people. If you don’t, you’ll notice right away that the A.I. is terrible. So bad that sometimes when the NPC’s are suppose to follow you — They won’t. And it’s evident in the video.
Another thing that bothers us, but not necessarily as bad as out first complaint — is because of the randomness of where the zombies come from, you’ll see them in odd places. Just watch the video, sometimes you’ll see them standing on a couch and other times on a kitchen counter. It’s looks a bit odd.
Of course, as long as you play the game online — it should easily be one of your favorites this year. And should be in contention for ‘Game of the Year.’ If you’re still on the fence for the FPS, starting today (not right at the moment), the game will have a demo available, so make sure you at least try that.
For the last few months, rumors were surrounding the possibility of Valve’s next first-person-shooter Left 4 Dead was at one point — heading to PS3. Sadly, the rumblings about a PS3 port have been squashed by one of the writers of the game, Chet Faliszek:
“Many people say that they heard rumors that Left4Dead is coming to PS3, however despite telling them this isn’t true they still don’t believe us, what more can we say than it is not.”
Despite the repeated reports of a PS3 version was on its way, Valve repeatedly said they didn’t have plans for one. Of course in the day-in-age of video game blogs, ‘not having plans’ – translates to: ‘most likely yes.’ Obviously with Valve, it means no.
And after seeing the Orange Box debacle with the PS3 version, we shouldn’t be all that surprised. From the game being plagued with major frame-rate issues to having online server problems, Valve looks to be finished on working with Sony’s console in the foreseeable future.
However, depending on sales for Left 4 Dead and how well the PS3 moves systems this holiday season, we still think we might see Left 4 Dead for the PlayStation 3. It really depends on how EA can handle the servers with the system and if they believe it could sell. And we think it would. Heck, Valve doesn’t necessarily have to even port it over to the PS3, EA could simply hire another team to do the dirty work. So in the end, Valve never lied.
But at this point — it doesn’t look good but we’ll definitely keep our eyes peeled.
Just a heads up to everyone who pre-ordered the Left 4 Dead for the Xbox 360 and who has received an email with the exclusive code to download — you can now do it. Valve announced the download began around 2:00 am PST and will run through November 11, 2008.
If you haven’t pre-ordered the game and still want it, it’s not to late — just head down to your local Gamestop and reserve. In about a day or so, the company should send you a email that will include a code that will invite you to the demo. Trust us, if you haven’t done it yet, do so NOW, it’s that good.
If you were expecting mindless shooting for Valve’s next first person shooter Left 4 Dead — than you’re right. But it seems they’ve also included a story that feels very much like a summer blockbuster than just a game. A video was just released of one of the opening cinematic scenes and we must say, we’re impressed!
We haven’t seen much of the story up to this point, but judging from the movie above, the game looks to include good writing, editing, music and the direction is fantastic. Heck, even the acting is decent and that’s something that is generally a flaw in the gaming world.
Our personal favorite scene in the cinematic is when all four characters are surrounded by the zombies. From that moment on — it feels like an epic action packed film and not a game. Every time we see something new about Left 4 Dead, we think it truly has the potential of easily being one of the ‘games of the year.’
Left 4 Dead will be available in stores on November 18th and remember to pre-order the game to receive early access to the online demo on November 6th.
