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Valve has officially made the Left 4 Dead 2 DLC announcement that they teased earlier this month. Looks like some old favorites will be appearing for the first expansion, and we don’t mean the Midnight Riders.

Photos of the new NVIDIA Fermi Tesla card have been leaked to the internet. Tesla is NVIDIA’s super-computing card, not meant for gamers, but we expect the consumer cards to have a similar design.

Update: NVIDIA admit that this card is fake: xbitlabs.com

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Valve have released the long awaited Crash Course DLC for Left 4 Dead. Available earlier this morning for Xbox 360 users, the PC update was released at 7pm GMT. Offering a brand new map which is playable in campain and versus modes along with new Survival modes.

The official update news from Valve:
September 29, 2009 – Left 4 Dead Update Released

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

• A new campaign, “Crash Course”, is now available for play in Campaign, Versus and Survival modes
• In Versus mode, all weapons, pills, health packs, molotovs, pipe bombs and other items will now be identical for the second round of a chapter
• Matchmaking has had several improvements to make finding and joining games even faster
  Ten all new “Crash Course” achievements have been added

Update: Left 4 Dead is now only £12.49 – 50% off! If you don’t have it, GET IT! linky

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Now that the ATI Radeon HD 5870 has been released to mixed reviews, focus is now turning to it’s little brother, the 5850. Whilst it only has 1,440 stream processors and a GPU running 125Mhz slower than it’s bigger brother, it is built with the same 256bit memory interface to 1Gb GDDR5 memory. Memory speed is slightly slower but the ROPs are the same as the 5870. As a result of this, power usage is lower at only 151watts maximum.

ATI Radeon HD 5870 specifications:

• Stream Processors: 1,600
• GPU frequency: 850MHz
• ROPs: 32
• Memory: 1GB GDDR5
• Memory frequency: 1.2GHz (4.8Ghz effective)
• Memory interface: 256 bit
• Memory bandwidth: 128GB/s
• Outputs: 2x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort
• Dimensions: 9.5inch x 5inch
• Power Input: 2x 6pin PCIexpress
• Maximum power usage: 188watts
• Idle power usage: 27watts

ATI Radeon HD 5850 specifications:

• Stream Processors: 1,440
• GPU frequency: 725MHz
• ROPs: 32
• Memory: 1GB GDDR5
• Memory frequency: 1.0GHz (4Ghz effective)
• Memory interface: 256 bit
• Memory bandwidth: 128GB/s
• Outputs: 2x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort
• Dimensions: 11inch x 5inch
• Power Input: 2x 6pin PCIexpress
• Maximum power usage: 151watts
• Idle power usage: 27watts

The 5850 is expected to be released this October for between £200 and £220. As the specifications are only a little less than the 5870, and coupled with a lower price, could this be the more popular card in the range?

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Valve have announced at the Tokyo Games Show that the awaited Left 4 Dead 2 demo will be released on October 27th 2009 to those people that have pre-ordered the full game. Those that haven’t pre-ordered will have to wait until November 3rd to play the demo. Valve have also announced that the full game will be released on the 17th November fpr PC and Xbox360.

Other news in the world of Left 4 Dead is that the next DLC pack will be released for PC and Xbox 360 next Tuesday 29th September. PC users are getting this for free but, due to Microsoft rules, Xbox360 owners will have to pay to receive the update.

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