I don’t want to repeat everything I said in my review of the Left 4 Dead 2 demo, but there’s a lot to talk about. The weather effects in the Hard Rain campaign are quite well done, and the hotel fire at the beginning of the first campaign actually makes you feel like you’re in… Read More »
The official release time of L4D2 is 2.5 hours from now, but Valve intended to release it 3 hours early; at least, that’s true if you go by Pacific time. So technically it’s 30 minutes late but 2.5 hours early still. I think someone’s having trouble configuring the release: At least, I’m pretty sure there… Read More »
The Left 4 Dead 2 demo came out yesterday (for people who pre-ordered the game, anyway), and I played it for half an hour last night. I noticed several things when compared to the first Left 4 Dead (if you want to find out for yourself, stop reading): – The main menu is vastly… Read More »
I preordered Left 4 Dead 2 the other day. Just throwing that out there. Also, Tim Buckley (author of the popular Ctrl+Alt+Del webcomic) has articulated quite perfectly my own opinion on the L4D2 boycott. Two posts of interest, both found here.
A recent Bruce Schneier blog post got me thinking about boycotts. Specifically, the user “AwesomeRobot” made the following comment in response to another user who said they plan to forever boycott Sony due to the rootkits they put on music CDs in 2005: Boycotts don’t work unless you say you’ll buy from them again when… Read More »