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      <title>L4D Art Direction, Part 2: Stylized Darkness</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Aesthetics, fiction and gameplay: these are three criteria that we always consider when employing a new art direction for a game. With a game as dark as Left 4 Dead, this meant having to figure out a lot of new ways to use the absence of light to our advantage.<br /> ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Moviemaking Process: Left 4 Dead's Intro Movie</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Because Left 4 Dead is a new property for us, we wanted to provide some basic player training prior to the start of the game. Traditional in-game training mechanics didn't make sense for Left 4 Dead, because they would take away from the sense that players had been immediately dropped into a very real, very dire zombie apocalypse.<br />]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Play Left 4 Dead with Valve</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Join Left 4 Dead’s developers for a few campaigns against the zombie horde this Saturday, November 22 at 9:00 pm (EST). All you have to do is send off a game invite to one of the gamertags listed below. See you there!<br />

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      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=2046</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>L4D Roundup: Contest Results, Great Deals and Early Reviews</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our <a class="standardLink" href="http://www.l4d.com/contest/">"Dude, Where's My Thumb?" contest</a> finishes today. We asked hopefuls in the US and UK to submit a picture of themselves in front of a Left 4 Dead billboard for a chance to win prizes. Gabe Newell's looked through all the entries and selected 25 lucky winners]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=2036</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Left 4 Dead is live on Steam</title>
      <description><![CDATA[As of midnight EST, the PC version of Left 4 Dead, Valve's zombie thriller, is now available via Steam to gamers around the globe. The title will be available for the PC and Xbox 360 at retail stores on Tuesday, November 18 in North America, and worldwide on Friday, November 21. For more information, please visit <a class="standardLink" href="http://store.steampowered.com/">www.steamgames.com</a>.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Update, 5:24 pm</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Good news on the Valve Launch Box test run! There was an electrical fire, and all the bees burned to death. The bad news: several employees also perished in the fire and the game will be delayed. Just kidding! About the game. There were some burning deaths. But the game's coming out!<br />]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=2027</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The End is Near...</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Less than four hours to go until Left 4 Dead goes live at the stroke of midnight (EST) on Steam, and that means the Valve Launch Box will be dragged out of its off-season home in Gabe Newell's tool shed.<br />]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=2026</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Downloadable L4D Desktop Wallpaper</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We were going to title this post "Infect Your Desktop!" until someone remembered what a bad idea it is to put those words together in conjunction with free downloads. Our back-up title, "Put These Pictures on Your Computer," wasn't nearly as clever, so we'll just quit while we're ahead and let you <a class="standardLink" href="http://l4d.com/media.htm">download the wallpaper</a>.<br />]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=2016</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Download the Left 4 Dead Demo!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Left 4 Dead is finally here! Well, almost, anyway. The full game won’t be available for another week (November 18 on Steam and in retail stores across America). But you can get a taste of the blood-splattering, zombie-killing fun 
<a class="standardLink" href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/530/">right now!</a><br /> ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1999</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>L4D Art Direction, Part 1: Filmic Effects</title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the goals of Left 4 Dead's art direction was to capture the tone and feel of being right in the middle of a horror movie. This meant making the environments look scary in a specifically cinematic way.<br />]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1962</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Left 4 Dead Intro Movie</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Less than a week from today, everyone who pre-ordered will be playing the Left 4 Dead demo. We know! We can't believe it either. To make the wait easier, we've released the five minute movie that opens the game. Caution: The movie may actually make the wait harder. Anyway, happy Halloween.<br />]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1964</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>It's the Zombie Ad-pocalypse.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[As part of our ongoing marketing campaign, we're airing a pair of commercials on network and cable television, including ABC, FOX, Spike, ESPN, MTV, Comedy Central, CBC and more. Created with footage from Left 4 Dead's opening sequence, the commercial goes live on television November 8th. But you can watch it online now! ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1954</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Dude, Where's My Thumb?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Want to win a free copy of Left 4 Dead? How about a new gaming PC? All it takes is a snapshot of you in front of a Left 4 Dead billboard, bus, Jumbotron or other piece of outdoor advertising. So fire up your Leica and get over to the <a class="standardLink" href="http://l4d.com/contest">official contest page</a>. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1948</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Hot off of solving the global credit crisis, world leaders have turned to more important matters.  They have declared this Sunday October 26th, World Zombie Day. What better way to celebrate World Zombie Day than dress up like a zombie and shamble around?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1937</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A Contest so Easy, Even a Zombie Could Win.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The guys over at Left4Dead411.com just launched a <a class="standardLink" href="http://www.left4dead411.com/bring-out-your-dead" target="_blank">new contest</a> today with the grand prize being four copies of Left 4 Dead.  The contest is all about getting your picture taken in front of a horde of zombies.<br /><br />

Where can you find a horde before November 18th?  Left4Dead411 has plenty of tips. Just please remember to respect the native zombies, they get hungry for brains if you anger them.  ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1905</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Left 4 Dead Pre-Purchase Infection is Now On!  </title>
      <description><![CDATA[Left 4 Dead is now available for <a class="standardLink" href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/500/">pre-purchase</a> worldwide via Steam! As with our pre-purchase promotions for retail PC and Xbox 360, customers who pre-purchase Left 4 Dead via Steam will save 10% off the regular price. Left 4 Dead will be released at retail on PC and Xbox 360 on November 18 in North America and November 21 in Europe. The worldwide Steam release will be November 18.
]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1898</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Left 4 Dead Spreads Around the World</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In Germany, lucky members of the press were able to play co-op with Gabe Newell at the Leipzig Games Convention, while Torsten Zabka manned the L4D tour bus outside.

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      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1886</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Legoland of the Dead </title>
      <description><![CDATA[This weekend, expert Lego Builders from all over the world will convene in the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall for <a class="standardLink" href="http://www.brickcon.org/public_exhibition">BrickCon 2008</a>.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1862</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>First post - Welcome to the L4D blog </title>
      <description><![CDATA[Since we announced Left 4 Dead in late 2006, the growing online community has been a great source of feedback and support during the development process. We're planning on using this blog to talk more directly with that community - through stories, artwork, and insights into our design and development process.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1849</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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