This Thursday Valve will be releasing the first downloadable content for Left 4 Dead 2, “The Passing” will bring the cast of both games togethor togethor while delivering new  single-player, multiplayer and co-operative gameplay for the PC and Xbox 360.

Heres what you’ll get this thursday for Free on the PC or just 560 Microsoft Points on the Xbox360, happy slaying!

The Passing also introduces a series of weekly game mode events dubbed “Mutations.” These week-long runs of new gameplay modes range from “Realism Versus” mode to “Chainsaw Massacre,” which gives all players chainsaws with an unlimited supply of gasoline. There are over 20 Mutations planned, each playable on all L4D2 Campaigns. Mutations are exclusively available to owners of “The Passing” DLC.

In addition, “The Passing” offers a new co-operative challenge mode of play, support for infected bot play in Versus, a new “uncommon common” zombie class (the fallen survivor), melee weapon (golf club), and firearm (M-60).

Available for 560 Microsoft Points on Xbox 360 and free on the PC, “The Passing” takes place just after the Dead Center campaign of L4D2. Set in a small town in rural Georgia, players assume the role of the L4D2 Survivors as they meet with the L4D1 characters.

Exclusively available for Xbox 360 and the PC, L4D2 sets a new benchmark for co-operative action games. The title adds melee combat to enable deeper co-operative gameplay, with items such as a chainsaws, frying pans, axes, baseball bats, and more.

With the AI Director 2.0, L4D’s dynamic gameplay is taken to the next level by giving the Director the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players’ performance. The result is a unique game session custom fitted to provide a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience each time the game is played.

Finally, with new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original, featuring more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, new Survival maps, and the new competitive game mode, Scavenge.

What are you most excited to play around with? I’d say chainsaw massacre sounds pretty enticing :P

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On March 8, 2010 Valve announced that steam will be coming to the Macintosh, now not all games will become available for the mac but Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 have been confirmed to be making the trip over. Valve assures players that there game experience will not change between platforms and that you will be able to transfer your purchases over meaning if you own Left 4 Dead on your windows, you now own it for mac. Plus mac and windows users will be able to go head to head since both are compatible. The mac version will be updated along with the windows version so never fear mac users, Valve wont leave you behind!

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On February 5th 2010 Valve released the latest patch for Left 4 Dead 2 on the PC version, this update will be released later to Xbox Live players when the next Title Update occurs. A few of the most notable changes in the patch are that they added Special Infected bots, a change that will help fill out the zombie side when playing with fewer than four online players. Also, Valve got rid of the dreaded “auto spawn” feature during finales. Although with every good new update theres always gotta be a negative side effect, Valve reduced the effectiveness of melee weapons against tanks, so hopefully you got your Tank Burger achievement before it got too difficult!!

You can view a full list of the Patch and its changes on Valves Website.

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