Left 4 Dead 2's New DLC, "Dead Air" Releasing Early, July 22nd at the Latest

Y'know, Valve/Left 4 Dead team sure has been a bit nice lately, especially with the upcoming Left 4 Dead 2 DLC pack. At the game's official blog, it was announced that "Dead Air," part of the DLC pack titled "Cold Stream" will be released, at the latest, on July 22nd. For those who don't know, Cold Stream is a user-created campaign, with the level included, being made by L4D modder, Matthew Lourdelet. He's been been working with Valve and the community to get this DLC pack out to get it all prepped up without bugs.

The Left 4 Dead team had promised that, while testing out the DLC, "Dead Air" would be released early if players were to complete the "Cold Stream" campaign on any difficulty, aquiring the achievement, "Stream Crosser", by Sunday, which was just last week. The goal was for 20,000 players to complete the campaign. In just 24 hours, 60,774 players had achieved that goal! What really was surprising was that the goal was set for everyone on July 6, 4 days before the deadline!

The team also encourages more people to continue playing through "Cold Stream" while reporting bugs on their blog post.

Thanks! This is a great stress test on Cold Stream. If you can, keep playing and submitting bugs this weekend. We have a bunch of bug reports and feedback – seems some of you don’t believe in purple and black checkerboard paintings. For Cold Stream the campaign this means we can fix those bugs, continue tweaking some game play and do our final performance optimization pass.

The rest of the campaigns included in the DLC are also being worked on as we modify some locations and make some optimization improvements on them as well.

That about does it guys! I'm pretty sure that all Left 4 Dead players will support this. Unfortunately, these testings are only for PC, so Xbox 360 players will have to wait until it's fully complete.

Rumor: SWTOR Beta has Expanded

Apparently Bioware has started sending out more Star Wars: The Old Republic beta invites, so you better go and check your email now!  Now they have already been in a very limited beta, but now they are opening the closed beta up for more players.  Now this isn't confirmed, but I am reasonably certain that what I was told is true.

L.A. Noire Coming to PC This Fall

Rockstar Games has been on a roll- actually, always has been! What's not to say that they never forget PC gamers? Well, they don't! Although, I'm still wondering why there hasn't been a PC release for Red Dead Redemption yet, but that's not point! The point is that Rockstar Games has announced that a PC version of L.A. Noire is on its way.

For this version, Rockstar Leeds will have it in their hands. In case you didn't know, Rockstar Leeds is reponsible developing Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories for the PSP, which were great iterations of the GTA franchise. They've also done ports for most of their console counterparts.

With L.A. Noire coming to PC, we'll be expecting for it to have customizable keyboard and controller mapping and of course graphical bumps that help the game look much better than its console versions. One notable feature that will be coming is 3D support. I'm not a big fan of 3D, but it does catch my interest.

No release date has been specified, but expect L.A. Noire for PC to release this Fall.

Custom SW:TOR Gaming Products

Razer has just announced a line of 4 custom gaming products for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

The first is a backlit keyboard, featuring a full color LCD track panel (with multi-touch), 12 Dynamic keys with their own screens to show different abilities or for other hotkeys, along with a custom lighting system allowing the keyboard to suit your mood.

Next is a sleek and metallic looking wireless gaming mouse with 12 programmable buttons.

And to go along with it, a very nice looking mousepad.

And finishing it off with a 5.1 surround sound headset.

You can find more information on these products at Razer's website, here.

The Witcher 2 Confirmed for Xbox 360

The Witcher 2 is one of the greatest PC games to come out in recent years, the only problem is you need a top-of-the-line gaming PC to run it. Well since one of those babies can easily run you upwards of $2000 a lot of people willl miss out on this amazing game. Well that was true.

After toying with the idea of bringing The Witcher 2 to consoles, CD Projekt has finally confirmed that the game will be coming to the Xbox 360 later this year. Yes, this year.

CD Projekt--who broke the news at a pre-E3 event earlier today--says the game will be an "adaptation not a port" but wants 360 owners to get the "same experience as delivered to PC players," which includes many of the improvements the studio is giving the PC version.

The Xbox 360 version will be at E3, so we'll give you more info as we get it.