How do you know if a video game is good? Fans cosplay as the game characters.  How do you know if a video game is great? Fans create a live action film around it. Left 4 Dead is one of those great games.

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You exactly have 5 days to figure out where the nearest Left 4 Dead 2 ad is and take a photo next to it. Why? Because Valve is hosting a contest that could win you a limited edition L4D2 Xbox 360 or a free copy of the game.

From the contest page:

Take a funny, interesting, scary or otherwise unique photograph of you or a friend in front of one of L4D2’s outdoor media placements (billboards, bus ads, etc.) and you could win a custom Xbox. All entries will be reviewed and judged by Gabe Newell, president and founder of Valve, so be creative!

All entries must be submitted by Sunday, November 15th.

So go out there and take photos! GL, HF. Full press release after the break.

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Ever looked at your boring old Windows desktop and thought: ‘I really wish I could be playing Left 4 Dead right now’. Come on, admit it, we’ve all been there. But now thanks to UltraBE and the excellent free desktop customisation software Rainmeter you can feel like you’re in the game when you’re going about your mundane day-to-day office working duties. Word processing has never looked so good.

For full instructions and the theme download head on over to UltraBE’s deviantART Left 4 Dead HUD Desktop.

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Where have the Teletubbies gone? To the grave.  But just like they keep saying, they will keep coming back “again, again! Again again!” like zomibes.  So kill them all with this L4D mod.

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One of our awesome readers, Elianora has created four Sims characters in the likeness of Left 4 Dead.  Now the world of the Sims can rest easier knowing that, as long as they have pills for these 4 new comers, there wont be much zombies left alive.

Great job Elianora!

I’m not the type to try to advocate products or companies, normally.  I’m not sure why, I just don’t do it.  I’ll make an exception this time.  Anyone who is in the market for a new gaming rig has only ONE place they need to visit.

www.doghousesystems.com

I just received my new desktop machine from them last week.  I got the Armor VS model.  Tossed 8 Gigs of RAM in that baby and she was still under $1,200.  Having just had a baby recently, I drooled over getting an awesome gaming PC for that price.  But I figured hey, its entry level price, the PC will probably be middle of the line at best.  I couldn’t have been more wrong.  This thing flies.  I mean flies.  In WoW at peak times, in Dalaran, maxed settings, I get over 60 FPS.  Over 60 in 25 man raids, as well, again with everything maxed out.  I get almost 75 in maxed settings Left 4 Dead.  I is a happy panda!  I don’t have any of the super high end games like Crysis to test it with, but I can only assume I would find similarly pleasing results there, as well.

My little setup.

Again, I can not describe with how happy I am with the performance of this machine.  No “Optional” trial software, no crap running in the backround I don’t need, these guys at DogHouse ARE gamers.  They know how we want our PCs to arrive.  It came with WoW Pre-installed and Pre-Patched.

If my pleasure level with the machine itself was a 10/10, then my review of DogHouse’s customer service would be about a 12/10.  It started early, too.  When I ordered the machine, I had to call their sales department to ask if 8G of RAM was possible in an Armor VS, since the choices on the order form were 2G and 4G.  After a moment, they came back and not only told me 8G was possible, but to reload my browser.  I reloaded my browser, and lo and behold, in that moment, they ADDED a choice for 8G.  If that isn’t prompt shit, I don’t know what would be.

The excellent service continued throughout the next 2 weeks.  They emailed me, letting me know the PC’s status, asking a few setup questions so that upon arrival, I could simply uncrate my glorious machine and get to pwning n00bz.  So it is roughly 2 weeks after I placed me order that FedEx arrives with my big box of joy.  Now, if I love DogHouse Systems, I fucking hate FedEx.  I watched the dude carry it from his truck to my door, dropping it once and hitting the door I opened for him with it.  Twice.

I get it to my little Nerd Lair, set it up – Which by the way, if you’re computer retarded, DogHouse sends a full color, lamens terms, very well labeled instruction binder on how to set it up – to find out that the bumbling idiot from FedEx managed to bend the housing on the top case exhaust fan.  What the fuck, FedEx?  So I call DogHouse, let them know my problem, and while I am far from computer illiterate, I’m not confident enough to go digging around in my new PC trying to fix this, so a gentleman named Sina walked me through getting the fan unhooked until they could ship me a new one.  Thats right.  FedEx fucked up, and DHS is fixing the problem.

These guys have my future business for all PC purchases and I can not stress enough how pleased people will be ordering from them.  If you need a new gaming rig, whether you’re looking to spend $1,000 or get the absolute top end shit, this is the place to go, geeks.  Keep up the good work DHS.  You guys rock.

You knew it was going to happen sooner or later. First there was Left 4 Head (no I’m not supplying the link) and now this.  Unlike most other animal species, humans have sex for pleasure. Other species “do it” for survival. I guess this mod technically takes care of both. The human in you gets to stare at a barely clothed Zoey, while the monkey in you is trying to survive the never ending waves of zombies that are coming right for you.

The perv in you will click here to download it.

Update: Since many pervs are fapping the l4dmods.com server too hard right now, here’s an alternate link.

As promised, Night Zero have posted a second photoset from their very popular “Left 5 Dead” photoshoot.  All these photos just makes us want to see a short film version.  Please, Night Zero! Do one!  If you enjoy these photos, go on to their official site and grab a copy of their photographic novel.

Night Zero Presents: Left 5 Dead

 

To see the photos from the first photo set, click this.

If you missed Night Zero as our guest on PixelatedLIVE, you missed this breaking news they gave us:

If you don’t want to listen to the MP3 above, then just know that on NightZero.com, this Friday, will be a 2nd photo set from their already famous Left 5 dead photoshoot. Also, supposedly, Valve tipped off the Night Zero crew with information that a sequel of L4D is coming out called Left 5 Dead.  The extra character will be a pirate.  Not sure if they were bullshitting me or actually telling some truth.  You decide.

Below is an archive of last nights show.