Back in May, Valve announced plans to launch Steam Cloud, a new feature for their Steam download service that would allow gamers to store save games, system configurations and more on Valve's Steam servers. We haven't heard much about this since then but today Valve announced that the upcoming demo and full game for their upcoming zombie shooter Left 4 Dead would be the first game to support some Steam Cloud features.

The demo, which will go live on Nov. 6 for Left 4 Dead pre-orders, will include ways for players to store "keyboard, mouse, and gamepad configurations, as well as multiplayer settings such as spraypaint images" onto Steam servers. If you switch to another PC and sign onto your Steam account these settings should still be there. Save game settings are apparently not supported yet. Valve will add Steam Cloud support to their older games over time and it's also freely available to any other game developer or publisher to use.