Left 4 Dead 2

Razer and Sixense’s new controller device will be totally compatible with Left 4 Dead 2 PC, Valve has announced.

This comes after its showing at the Worlds Largest Tech Conference, CES in Las Vegas.

The controller will give a somewhat Wii-Type feel to the game (along with other supported titles), but consists of dual-wielding peripheral rather than the Wii’s single controller.

Spong.com reports, “With this controller, Razer and Sixense have created the most immersive way to play our games,” said the game’s team leader, Chet Faliszek. “For us and for our customers, this release represents motion-enabled gaming that’s more integrated and visceral than any platform has so far achieved.”

I can seriously see myself using this on a day-to-day basis, and rest assured, when this is released over here in the UK, I’ll be most certainly writing up a review right here.

Now, Sixense…where’s mine?

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CGSociety today posted an article featuring an interview with Left 4 Dead 2’s very own Character Designer Jeremy Bennett and Environment Designer, Randy Lundeen.

The article runs through topics such as the locations of their travels, the player models and the new  common and special infected zombies.

It seems that wide speculation of Valve ‘ignoring’ the Xbox 360 customers has been greatly exaggerated. The Left 4 Dead team today announces that this weekend, Xbox live will be free, allowing all Left 4 Dead 2 players to play online, even if they simply have a ‘Silver’ account.

Here’s Valve’s exact wording:

For this weekend only, Microsoft is hosting a free multiplayer weekend for Left 4 Dead 2. What does this mean? You don’t need to have an Xbox Live Gold account to access Left 4 Dead 2’s multiplayer features. That’s right: You will be upgraded from Silver to Gold for free. You can go online alone or with a split-screen friend. This event starts at 5pm GMT Friday, January 15th and ends at 5pm on Sunday the 18th.

In other news: We’ve just rolled out a new PC update that you can read more about here. Xbox 360 users should be seeing a console version of this same patch very soon.

Also, over the next few weeks, keep an eye on your favorite gaming web sites and magazines for new info on our upcoming DLC “The Passing”.

An update was pushed out over Steam yesterday which includes many bug fixes listed below.

‘Reduced Dedicated Server max search ping to 150 ms’ – You will now not be connected to a server if it has a ping of over 150 ms.

‘Teams that prefer listen servers will no longer be matched with teams that prefer dedicated servers’ – Self-Explanatory.

‘Official dedicated servers are now preferred when searching for team matches’ – Self-Explanatory.

‘More populous lobbies are now preferred over less populous ones when searching for games’ – Left 4 Dead 2 will now try and connect you to a game with more people in it than bots.

‘Players who crash or have failed to load are no longer banned if they have been kicked’ – Self-Explanatory.

‘Update Russian subtitles’ – Self-Explanatory.

‘Fixed not being able to interlink teams in team-on-team mode’ – Self-Explanatory.

‘Fixed not being able to properly migrate team lobby after team leader would leave the lobby’ – Self-Explanatory.

‘Fixed not being able to invite friends if player was not team leader in a team-on-team game’ – Self-Explanatory.

[Source: Steam]

Over the coming weeks, I hope to be trying out people’s attempts at custom campaigns and posting one’s which I think deserve a mention and review. I am in no way associated with the author of any which are posted – just to make that clear. Now, let’s get to it.

Browsing the internet earlier, I came across what appeared to be an interesting custom campaign created by someone of the Left 4 Dead 2 community. This campaign/map is in its early stages, but I thought I’d try it out non-the-less.

From a first glance when the map initially loads, it looks very professional and well done (which it does throughout). All textures look great (no broken/faulty ones), the starting point looks well-polished and positioning of objects look at VALVe-Standard.

Let’s walk through it.

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Every British citizen knows for a fact that the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) does not advertise on their network and its TV channels (the license fee pays for that). If this is true, are they trying to tell us something?

Seems like even scientists themselves are readying themselves for a Zombie Apocalypse.

Let us know in the comments what YOU think!