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A Slight Clarification…

Due to an ongoing debate in the office and online as to whether “12 AM” means noon or midnight (we’re still sticking with midnight), it’s been more challenging than we realized to tell people when exactly our game will be available. Factor in the Earth rotating around the sun, daylight savings time, some of our fans insisting on using the Mayan calendar, and we’re just going to try and make this as specific as possible:

When L4D2 will go live:

  • Monday, November 16th, 9:00 PM Pacific Standard Time
  • Monday, November 16th, 10:00 PM Mountain Standard Time
  • Monday, November 16th, 11:00 PM Central Standard Time
  • Tuesday, November 17th, 12:00 AM (midnight) Eastern Standard Time
  • Tuesday, November 17th, 5:00 AM Greenwich Mean Time
  • Tuesday, November 17th, 8:00 AM Moscow Time
  • Tuesday, November 17th, 2:00 PM Japan Standard Time

Also, if you were interested in learning a bit more about the Survivors you’ll be playing as this Tuesday(ish), check out our Survivor pages for Nick, Ellis, Coach and Rochelle with character, weapon and item details.

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Get Free Wallpaper, Turn Yourself into a Zombie, and Win an Xbox

During the production of a game, a lot of concept art gets drawn up, redrawn, thrown away, cursed at, and, occasionally, even used. There’s a mountain of this stuff fluttering around the Valve offices, and while the non-artists among us might not know much (anything) about art, we hope we’re not embarrassing our artists by saying it looks pretty kickass. So we grabbed some of it off the nearest pile and made it into desktop wallpaper:







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And we lest we forget our hard-working animators and modelers, Here’s some high-res screengrab wallpaper from the game’s intro, too:



If you’re looking at all these wallpapers and thinking, “These are okay, but they’re not as good as the desktop wallpaper I have up now of my own face,” have we got news for you. You can plug that picture into GameStop’s “Leave Yourself 4 Dead” Online Zombifier and see what you’d look like as a ravenous, kill-crazy zombie. (Admit it, you’re curious.)

Lastly, if you haven’t already entered our “Dude, Where’s My Thumb?” contest, remember that it closes Monday, so get creative this weekend and win a copy of the game or even a new Xbox!
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