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Back 4 Blood beta impressions: A template for potential co-op greatness

Zombie killing with friends: you’ve done this before, but Back 4 Blood does a lot to make a case for its version feeling surprisingly fresh. [credit: Turtle Rock / WB Games ] As the new video game Left 4… ahem, Back 4 Blood shambles its way toward launch later this year, this zombie co-op shooter […]

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The Anacrusis: Left 4 Dead + sci-fi + persistent AI, coming to PC, Xbox this fall

The Anacrusis‘ cast chats plenty with each other mid-mission, much like L4D. In fact, much of this game resembles L4D, and its creators are fine with leaning into these similarities. [credit: Stray Bombay ] SEATTLE—The makers of new game The Anacrusis, as revealed during today’s Summer Games Fest presentation, are happy for you to mistake […]

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One zombie of a chance: Looking back at 2009’s Left 4 Dead 2 boycott

Enlarge / Bill looks over the boycott’s corpse to determine if it’s still a threat… The following piece, originally published in late 2009, looks back at that year’s somewhat quixotic attempted boycott of Left 4 Dead 2—and how that effort eventually fell apart. Flawed as it was, that movement would serve as a precursor to […]

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Again 4 Blood alpha Evaluation: Workout, Left 4 Dead Blends Nicely with Slay That the Spire

Expand / / Blood from various different zombies’ faces, so which makes it slick to reload through a frightening moment in Rear 4 Blood‘s strong closed alpha test. (charge: Turtle Rock Studios) The encounter of co-op gambling was transformed forever by Valve Left 4 Dead at 2008 in a period when playing matches with internet […]