Gamers to be Left 4 Dead this November

Posted May 24th 2008 1:00PM by Samuel Axon
Filed under: Biz, Demos, Interviews, FPS, Survival horror, Left 4 Dead

Valve Software's Doug Lombardi revealed in the second half of a two part interview with Shacknews (in part one he declared PC gaming alive and well) that the studio hopes to ship its co-op, zombie-themed, survival horror FPS Left 4 Dead sometime in November of this year.

Left 4 Dead is Valve's big release this year, and the company hopes that it will do the same thing for co-op multi-player gaming that Counter Strike did for competitive play. The audience is clearly there; zombie-themed, user-created Half-Life 2 mods like Zombie Master and Zombie Panic are among the most popular on Steam.

Lombardi also suggested that gamers will get to play the full version of Left 4 Dead free for a whole weekend, and that a demo is probably coming as well. He wasn't able to confirm a time-frame for either of those, though.

Tags: counter-strike, demo, doug-lombardi, free-weekend, half-life-2, interview, l4d, left-4-dead, mods, november, release-date, shacknews, valve, valve-software, zombie-master, zombie-panic, zombies

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