May 28, 2010
Left 4 Dead 2 - SZ
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Last Man On Earth, Special Infected Love, Favorite Campaign, and Last Video on Earth.

<strong>New Mutation</strong>
<i>Last Man On Earth.</i>
You will become legend to the infected as the last human left.
You are the only Survivor left in the world. No split screen help. No Survivor bots. But don't worry you aren't entirely alone. While there are no common Infected, Special Infected will hunt you down and become close, close friends with you.

This Mutation is available in Single Player Mode.

Special Infected Love
The results from last week's poll are in and the Hunter clawed his way to the top.

<strong>Here are the numbers from the PC:</strong>
20% Hunter
17% Charger
15% Tank
13% Spitter
12% Smoker
11% Witch
 7% Boomer
 5% Jockey

<strong>And the 360:</strong>
22% Hunter
18% Tank
14% Smoker
14% Witch
13% Charger
7% Jockey
7% Spitter
5% Boomer

The only thing we are sure of is that people love the Hunter.

<strong>Favorite Campaign</strong>
So now that we know what creatures you like, what campaigns do you like? Tell us in this week's poll - What's your favorite campaign?

<strong>Last Video on Earth</strong>
Since this week's Mutation is Single player only, we can't really play it with you. How about this? You play by yourself. Record a video of your best 60 seconds. Upload that clip to YouTube with the tag "L4D2LastSurvivor". We will wade through the submissions and feature the best in next week's web blog. If you want to pimp your clip, you can also go to <a href="http://www.l4d.com/forums.html" class="standardLink">forums.l4d</a>.com and <a href="http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1286598" class="standardLink">post in this thread</a>.

Next Week's Mutation: Chainsaw Massacre
May 28, 2010
Left 4 Dead 2 - SZ


Last Man On Earth, Special Infected Love, Favorite Campaign, and Last Video on Earth.

New Mutation
Last Man On Earth.
You will become legend to the infected as the last human left.
You are the only Survivor left in the world. No split screen help. No Survivor bots. But don't worry you aren't entirely alone. While there are no common Infected, Special Infected will hunt you down and become close, close friends with you.

This Mutation is available in Single Player Mode.

Special Infected Love
The results from last week's poll are in and the Hunter clawed his way to the top.

Here are the numbers from the PC:
20% Hunter
17% Charger
15% Tank
13% Spitter
12% Smoker
11% Witch
 7% Boomer
 5% Jockey

And the 360:
22% Hunter
18% Tank
14% Smoker
14% Witch
13% Charger
7% Jockey
7% Spitter
5% Boomer

The only thing we are sure of is that people love the Hunter.

Favorite Campaign
So now that we know what creatures you like, what campaigns do you like? Tell us in this week's poll - What's your favorite campaign?

Last Video on Earth
Since this week's Mutation is Single player only, we can't really play it with you. How about this? You play by yourself. Record a video of your best 60 seconds. Upload that clip to YouTube with the tag "L4D2LastSurvivor". We will wade through the submissions and feature the best in next week's web blog. If you want to pimp your clip, you can also go to forums.l4d.com and post in this thread.

Next Week's Mutation: Chainsaw Massacre
May 28, 2010
Left 4 Dead
Last Man On Earth, Special Infected Love, Favorite Campaign, and Last Video on Earth.
Left 4 Dead 2

Zombie enthusiasts go it alone this week with the latest Left 4 Dead 2 Mutation, "Last Man On Earth." No splitscreen, no Survivor bots, and no Common Infected—it's just you and some Special Infected in single-player mode.


Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Left 4 Dead 2
  • Encore mutation: Last Gnome On Earth
  • Realism Versus added as a permanent game mode
  • Lobbies now default to "Official Dedicated"
May 21, 2010
Left 4 Dead
Week 5 of the in game blog: Return of the Gnome and Realism Versus and Pick Your Favorite Infected.

Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
Valve and Prima today launched the first set of in-game Prima guides on Steam. All the guides are readable in game via Steam's UI overlay functionality, as well as being available outside of game. The launch collection of guides available now on Steam include Dragon Age: Origins, Just Cause 2, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

To celebrate the launch of Prima guides on Steam, all the launch titles are available at 50% off their regular price.
Left 4 Dead 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)

L4D2’s ongoing Mutation event-of-the-week giggles continue, this time pushing the legendary Gnome Chomsky to the forefront of the game. I hand you over the official description:

Last Gnome On Earth: Protect the gnome at all cost.Do you crave attention? Want all the infected to swarm you and the gnome you are carrying? Then we have the game mode for you. The team needs to carry the garden gnome from start to finish in any campaign. The common infected hate the gnome and will swarm whoever is carrying him. Watch out putting him on the ground, a boomer explosion will send him flying!

Carnage, I suspect. In a good way.

May 14, 2010
Left 4 Dead
Week 4 of the in game blog: New Mutation, Angry and Confused, and Pick a Mutation.

New Mutation
Last Gnome On Earth
Protect the gnome at all cost.
Do you crave attention? Want all the infected to swarm you and the gnome you are carrying? Then we have the game mode for you. The team needs to carry the garden gnome from start to finish in any campaign. The common infected hate the gnome and will swarm whoever is carrying him. Watch out putting him on the ground, a boomer explosion will send him flying!
May 7, 2010
Left 4 Dead 2 - SZ
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Week 3 of the in game blog: New Mutation, Landslide Victory!, and what rages you?

<strong>New Mutation</strong>
Follow the Liter
<i>Scavenge one can at a time.</i>
No more fighting over what cans to grab first. This Mutation spawns only one group of cans at a time, so survivors know exactly where to go. There is only one problem: the Infected know exactly where they are going.

<strong>LANDSLIDE VICTORY!!!</strong>
Last week's poll asking if we should make Realism Versus a permanent mode ended up telling us clearly - make it permanent. The final results were 68% Yes, 21% No, and 11% No Opinion. Thanks everyone for voting, even those of you who have no opinion. Next week we will have news on when this Mutation will become permanent.

<strong>Don't Get Mad At This Poll</strong>
Do you play Versus Mode? Do you ever get frustrated mid-match and quit? Do you ever Rage Quit? If you do, why? While we can collect hard stats on this behavior, finding the motivation behind the behavior will help.

We will continue the Play with Devs games this Friday. We might even be forming Valve teams to take on your team! Look for us all this weekend using steam names - <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198024119021" class="standardLink">L4D2_DEV_1</a>, <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198024119077" class="standardLink">L4D2_DEV_2</a>, <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198024119145" class="standardLink">L4D2_DEV_3</a>, <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198024119167" class="standardLink">L4D2_DEV_4</a>, <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198024149372" class="standardLink">L4D2_DEV_5</a>. All valid dev accounts are members of the Valve steam group. On the Xbox 360 we will be playing under L4D2 DEV 1, L4D2 DEV 2, L4D2 DEV 3, L4D2 DEV 4, L4D2 DEV 5. Our friends lists are full, but just play Follow the Liter and look for us. And please, try not to rage quit.

Check back next week for info on the next mutation: Last Gnome on Earth.
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