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

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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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