Sasquatch (a.k.a. Bigfoot) sightings have been recorded in wilderness areas around the world. Those who have encountered Bigfoot and survived have described the ape-like forest dweller as “non-confrontational” and “business-like”. Because reliable statistics on death and dismemberment as a result of surprise encounters are not publicly available, it is recommended that you avoid potential Bigfoot habitat, especially during the summer mating season.

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Versus Survival, Do You Play on More Than One Platrform?, Favorite Finale, Play with Devs.

Versus Survival

Can you survive against your friends?

The first Survivor team sets the time. The second team tries to beat it. Then the first team tries to beat the second team’s time. Then the second team tries to beat the first team’s time. And then the… you get the idea. Rounds keep switching until someone fails to beat the previous time.

Do you play on more than one platform?
Last week we asked, do you own L4D1 or 2 on the Xbox 360 and PC. 30% of you do play on both the PC and Xbox 360. Xbox 360 users voted 57% No, 33% Yes and 10% Don’t Know. PC users voted 62% No, 29% Yes and 8% Don’t Know.

The Don’t Know votes scare us.

What is your favorite finale?

We previously asked your favorite campaign, but do you like the finales the same?

To vote enter the game, view the in-game blog, and click to vote.

Game with Devs!

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 – L4D2_DEV_1, L4D2_DEV_2, L4D2_DEV_3, L4D2_DEV_4, L4D2_DEV_5. All valid dev accounts are members of the Valve steam group. Or on the Xbox 360 L4D2 DEV 1, L4D2 DEV 2, L4D2 DEV 3, L4D2 DEV 4, L4D2 DEV 5. Our friends lists are full, but just play Versus Survival and look for us.

Thanks to everyone who submitted Avatar pictures last week. If you haven’t checked them out yet, visit facebook.com/left4dead2 to see them and other cool community content.

Next week’s mutation: Four Swordsmen

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Since our announcement of Team Fortress 2 on the Mac, we’ve received literally thousands of emails from over seven people, curious as to how the Apple comic shown in the update fits into the ongoing TF saga. Did Saxton Hale really buy the Apple company? Can Heavy’s gun actually shoot email bullets now? Who was that mysterious figure? And why were Valve’s lawyers so insistent that he remain mysterious?

Some good questions. Good enough, anyway, that when we angrily confronted our writers with them, they got that look animals get when they’re walking across a road in the middle of the night, headlights appear, and they realize they’re about to lose their jobs. Following a frantic search through the internet for fancy excuse words, they came up with an answer.

Apparently the Apple comic was non-canon. Think of it like a “commercial”. Then imagine yourself removing the quote marks around “commercial”, because it was a commercial. “Ah, now I get it,” you’re saying. Just in case you’re lying, here’s another example: Say Team Fortress was Hercules. Our class updates would be all of those times that Hercules fought gorgons or suplexed an evil king into a mountain. The Apple update would be like the time Hercules enjoyed a jalapeño popper platter at Applebees.

Since this announcement creates a canon-shaped void in the lives of TF2’s biggest story fans—our writers—we let them “imagineer” (their words) an epic Engineer story spanning three generations.
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The item system in Team Fortress 2 generates a ton of data. Up to this point we’ve provided access to this data through some hacked-together scripts that, frankly, were old and creaky before they went live. Ah, but now…

Pow! Shiny new web APIs that are officially supported. (Find out how to use them here.) This new system comes with a few new features:

• Output can now be provided as JSON, XML, or VDF (Key Values)
• The current item schema is available as an API call, so you don’t have to dig items_game.txt out of a patched client
• It is much easier for us to add new APIs with the new system, so it should happen more often

For now, the old system will continue to run, and all applications built on it will continue to work. A word of warning, though: At some point down the road we will turn it off. So if you’re using it, please give the new Steam Web APIs a try.
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If you were thinking that a stroll in the park would be a safe and enjoyable thing to do on a nice Summer day – you would be wrong. Have you never heard of killer bees?
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FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY.

Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and abominations caught somewhere in between.

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Do you hear that? That ominous, otherworldly silence? That’s what we in the game biz call the calm before a storm. And keep listening… do you hear that distant rumble? We call that thunder. It happens during a storm whenever it’s not quiet.

All of these portents can only mean one thing: Something big is happening. The fact that everybody else on the team keeps telling me that it’s only weather, and that weather can’t talk to you, tells me they’re all in on it. (And possibly not human? More on this later.)

Perhaps it’s the upcoming Polycount Pack update making the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and the Australia-shaped hair on my back matte itself back down, since it means we’ll be shipping the best of the amazing Polycount Contest entries. Be glad you’re not one of us, forced to order that list of magnificent items into some kind of hierarchy. Maybe we’ll just announce they’ve all won first place.

Or maybe it’s the release of the Official TF2 Wiki that’s made weather choose me as its emissary on Earth. Developed by the administrators of the unofficial TF2 wiki, it’s a perfect place to find out everything you ever wanted to know about TF2, but were too afraid to type into Google. Head over there and see if you can help them out. If you’re a useful enough contributor, the weather might talk to you too. It might even point out which of the people on your team aren’t real humans. Then we could compare notes.

Or maybe, just maybe, it’s something else entirely.

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Updates to Iron Grip: Warlord have been released. These updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Iron Grip: Warlord

• Resolved DRM issues
• Added CD Key associated with the users’ accounts. This allows the user to play on different computers without problems.

Iron Grip: Warlord – Demo

• Created separate demo build to reduce file size on disk

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It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Best to play it safe and get some more games from www.steamgames.com.

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Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original ARMA II, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.

You will enlist into various roles within the US Army, from basic infantrymen, through special operatives, to pilots and tank crew in this new installment in the award winning line up of military simulators for PC from Bohemia Interactive.

ARMA II: Operation Arrowhead is a complete, standalone product that does not require the original ARMA II.

TODAY ONLY: To commemorate the Summer Sale, the original ARMA II is available today only at 50% off. For a sweeter deal, get the ARMA II: Combined Operations bundle pack.

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Tragedy can strike anywhere, at any time. Particularly if you own, operate or attend a traveling summer carnival. A loose screw, a missing nut, a lapse of concentration and your summer ends early.

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Don’t miss that perfect headshot! Sniper: Ghost Warrior is now available on Steam.

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Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer is the first expansion for the best-selling and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Age of Conan: The Hyborian Adventures.

As an added bonus, the expansion also includes the original game.

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