October 15th Update

October 14, 2010 - L4D Team

Hunting Party, Comics Going Mobile, Did you Win?

Hunting Party
Nothing but Hunters on the prowl.
In this Coop Mutation we pit you against non-stop hunters. No booms, no spit, no tongues, no charges, no being ridden… Great practice on dead stopping a hunter pounce.

The Sacrifice comic has gone mobile.
The Sacrifice is now available on the iPhone and iPad.

How do you get it?
Go to the App store on your iphone/ipad.
Download the Comixology app (be sure to get the one that says “Comics” not “Pull List”)
Use the search engine to find Left 4 Dead.
Download for Free! When it is finished, go to bottom of the U.I. and you will find it in “my comics”.
Thanks to everyone at Comixology for getting this up.

We also added a zip file on the comic's extra page that contains all the panels with the words and SFX removed. This way you can create your own story or translate The Sacrifice to a language other than English or just make Zoey say all those things you’ve been hoping she would.

Did you win?
You get to the end of the Sacrifice. You and three friends are on the bridge and someone needs to jump down. You offer to do it yourself, so you jump down, restart the generator and save the team.

Do you consider that you won the Campaign or did you just sacrifice yourself so your team won?

Next week – Lone Gunman

TF2 Items

October 6, 2010 - L4D Team

The Sacrifice DLC for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 is now available on the Xbox 360!

The Sacrifice is out!

October 5, 2010 - L4D Team

We have released the Sacrifice for Left 4 Dead on the PC, for Left 4 Dead 2 on the PC and Mac. It will be released later this evening on the Xbox 360.

We have also released the final issue of the comic for you to read while downloading the DLC.



On Steam Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 have had their prices slashed so low, we needed to ask our favorite Georgia gun store owner to explain the pricing to you. Click here to read his explanation of the current sale prices.

Monday Sacrifice Update

October 4, 2010 - L4D Team

The big surprise today is… there is no surprise and no that isn’t one of Gabe’s three surprises. We have moved today’s surprise to Wednesday. We moved the announcement of the Midnight Rider’s contest winners to today. For tomorrow, we have enlisted an old friend to help with that announcement.

With that cleared up, here are the winners of the Midnight Rider’s Video contest. Thanks to everyone who entered, viewed and voted. When we originally designed this contest, we expected maybe a handful of clear winners. Instead we had over 80 videos that made it into the final round of voting.

With so many great entries, picking the winners was near impossible. As we tried to tabulate the votes today, they kept coming up too close to call. We checked and rechecked the votes. We used abacuses, calculators, and even plotted the results using the stars.

No matter how we sliced it, it was a tie.

But we had a problem, only one guitar and the Riders nowhere to be found. So we dug through their tour bus, through crates, boxes, and too many cans of diet energy drink to count. And there it was, a little more worn than the other, even looked like it been used for more than just rocking. But now we have one nice clean guitar and one dirty bloody guitar.



After you watch the two winners, it should be obvious who gets what guitar.

The Winners

Zombies rocking the House!


We should just name this one, Easter Egg!

Honorable Mentions:

Ballad of the Fallen Survivor

Best Cover Band

Puppet Category:
Best Use of Sugar Bags
Scariest Puppets

Best Animated
Best Cut Out
Best Use of Explosions
Best Use of Black and White

Thanks again to everyone who entered. If you have time to kill, like say waiting for a DLC to be released on Tuesday – here is the complete list of videos for you to check out.

Sunday Sacrifice Update

October 3, 2010 - L4D Team

Today we make it official, Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 on the Mac. Check out the update page for full details.

Once “The Sacrifice” is released this Tuesday, the Left 4 Dead team will celebrate by playing Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 all day. If you want to join us in a game, on the Xbox 360 look for L4D2 DEV 1, L4D2 DEV 2, L4D2 DEV 3, L4D2 DEV 4, or L4D2 DEV 5. On the PC L4D2_DEV_1, L4D2_DEV_2, L4D2_DEV_3, L4D2_DEV_4, or L4D2_DEV_5. Our friends lists are full but you can look for us playing “The Sacrifice”.