Left 4 Dead 2: Demo release date & new footage!

Over a the EA’s TGS (Tokyo Game Show) press event tongues are already wagging and Valve’s lead designer, Kimberely Swift, has announced that Xbox 360 and PC gamers who have pre-ordered Valve’s next big hit will be able to downloaded the demo next month, on October 27th.

So you had better get those pre-orders in now folks!

Valve plans to sell L4D2 Mods on 360

Valve wants to sell us user-created mods on Left 4 Dead 2, with all the money made going back to the creators of that particular mod.

“We’ll have to filter them, we can’t allow any copyrighted materials, so it’s going to have to go through a process. But we’re hoping perhaps we can shepherd the really popular campaigns onto 360. And you know, if they are a paid system, perhaps that could go back to the authors. I think that would be a great story.”

So, shmucks like you and me make these mods, Valve release them as if they’re DLC and we get all the credit and the money? I’m down with that.

If this goes ahead, I doubt we’ll be seeing good old Shaun running around, or even a naked Zoe, but all the ingredients are in there for some crazy yet originate ideas.

Check out the full article here.

New Assassins Creed II gameplay released.

So when the debut Assassins Creed II trailer was shown at E3 earlier this year, many of us gawked in awe at the new perks and moves that the new protagonist ‘Ezio’ could do. Living up to ‘Altair’ would be a hard task indeed, but ‘Ezio’ seems better in every way possible.

Yesterday, the team behind the game, Ubisoft, officially released another gameplay video. In the video we are enlightened with more of the moves that can be conducted by the player including lots of bashes to the head – I don’t think a smoothie could cure that in the morning. At the beginning of the video a collection of sculptured shots take us through a variety of painted portraits, including the famous “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper”, again enforcing the themes of Da Vinci and his works.

To see the gameplay footage, click here.

Assassins Creed II is released 20th November and is available to preorder now on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.

Modern Warfare 2 comic to be released by DC Comics

Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has just announced that DC Comics’ have just picked up a license to create a comic based on Modern Warfare 2.  The comic will be written and drawn by David Lapham and will be 6 issues long but a release date has yet to be confirmed but we are suspectin a November launch to coincide alongside the release of the game.