Valve have just recently announced that we will all be getting some new Left 4 Dead DLC for both the PC and Xbox 360 very soon. No price has been announced as yet but rumours are that it will be costing Xbox 360 owners some hard earned Microsoft Points but will be free for PC.

Setting out to do for co-op gaming what Counter-Strike did for team combat, Left 4 Dead is an ambitious survival horror game. Running on the Source engine, Left 4 Dead leaves four armed survivors of a world overrun with zombies, and they must fight their way out to escape the outbreak. Designed for co-op play, the four players must work together to finish each stage of the game, lending each other artillery support, sharing ammo and rescuing each other when zombies are on top of them.


Valve are reportedly planning to release their new DLC content across both platforms simultaneously.

Faliszek has revealed that Valve has plans on incorporating the Versus mode to the Dead Air and Death Toll campaigns. Currently, only Blood Harvest and No Mercy are playable in Versus.

New scenarios will be a coming for PC users who will eventually get the software development kit, allowing them to make their own scenarios, complete with scripted events and more.

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Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski chats about his inspirations and innovations with the guys from forbes.com.

A chainsaw revs. The heavily armored Marcus Fenix lumbers forward, ripping through a Locust soldier as if he were shredding turkey with an electric carving knife. The combination assault rifle and mechanized saw blade, known as a Lancer, is one of the most recognizable components of "Gears of War," the Xbox 360 shooter that asks players to save humanity from an alien horde.

The most recognizable man behind the franchise happens to be Cliff Bleszinski. The 33-year-old design director of Epic Games has cultivated a rock star aura, despite the videogame industry's general lack of celebrity. He started out in the business when he was 17. Now he is in charge of one of the largest franchises on Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) console. "Gears of War 2," his latest title, launched in early November and sold 2 million copies its opening weekend. The game is expected to be one of the best-selling games this holiday season.
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Bleszinski, who recently unleashed a new pack of multiplayer maps for "Gears 2" over Xbox Live, talked to Forbes.com about the impact downloadable content has on games, making hardcore shooters appeal to casual audiences and his love for "Super Mario Brothers."

If you are browsing the HQ homepage be sure to click the read more to view the rest of the interview and a link to the official news source.. :)"

Since I've been a little bit too excited over the most recent "Guitar Hero: Metallica" news I've forgotten to mention the latest GHWT DLC available from the Xbox Live Marketplace right now.

All Xbox Live Members can now download their FREE "Reggae Rock Track Pack" for Guitar Hero: World Tour which includes such tracks as "Your Face" by Pepper, "Jimi" by Slightly Stoopid, and "Sacrifice" by The Expendables or purchase any of the additional track packs and single songs which are listed below for your convenience.

Reggae Rock Track Pack
Downloadable Track Pack for Guitar Hero World Tour featuring "Your Face" by Pepper, "Jimi" by Slightly Stoopid, and "Sacrifice" by The Expendables. Please Note: Many songs are available both as singles and as part of a Track Pack, so please carefully consider your purchases before downloading. For all song credits please visit www.guitarhero.com.

Price: Free
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions

Hard Rock Track Pack
Downloadable Track Pack for Guitar Hero World Tour featuring "Use Me" by Hinder, "Light It Up" by Rev Theory, and "Because of You" by Nickelback. Please Note: Many songs are available both as singles and as part of a Track Pack, so please carefully consider your purchases before downloading. For all song credits please visit www.guitarhero.com.

Price: 440 Microsoft Points
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions

"Light It Up" by Rev Theory
"Light It Up" by Rev Theory downloadable single for Guitar Hero World Tour. Please Note: Many songs are available both as singles and as part of a Track Pack, so please carefully consider your purchases before downloading. For all song credits please visit www.guitarhero.com.

Price: 160 Microsoft Points
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions

"Because of You" by Nickelback
"Because of You" by Nickelback downloadable single for Guitar Hero World Tour. Please Note: Many songs are available both as singles and as part of a Track Pack, so please carefully consider your purchases before downloading. For all song credits please visit www.guitarhero.com.

Price: 160 Microsoft Points
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions


"Use Me" by Hinder
"Use Me" by Hinder downloadable single for Guitar Hero World Tour. Please Note: Many songs are available both as singles and as part of a Track Pack, so please carefully consider your purchases before downloading. For all song credits please visit www.guitarhero.com.

Price: 160 Microsoft Points
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions

Stay tuned to 360-HQ for all the latest xbox 360 news, clans, achievements, trailers, cheats and xbox 360 forums..

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I know it's late, but better late then never so here we go. Here is the Xbox 360 LIVE Activity for the week of December 15th, 2008.

Where we can, we will also display our own list of most played games on XBOX LIVE as tracked by the 360-HQ.com website with all LIVE Activity news..:)

The 360-HQ Xbox LIVE top 10 list is compiled automatically by our server which tracks each and every gamercard and what they are playing or have played most recently. It will then tally the top games which our members are playing while they are on XBOX LIVE.

You can check the top 10 games at anytime by browsing our "Xbox 360 Games Database".

360-HQ Top 10 Retail
1. Call of Duty 5: World at War
2. Halo 3
3. Gears of War 2
4. Call of Duty 4
5. Fallout 3
6. Guitar Hero: World Tour
7. Left 4 Dead
8. Fable II
9. Rock Band 2
10. Grand Theft Auto IV

The list below are statistics from XBOX LIVE itself.. Read on..:)

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles 1. Halo 3 2. CoD: World at War 3. Call of Duty 4 4. Gears of War 2 5. GTA IV 6. Dash of Destruction 7. Left 4 Dead 8. Madden NFL 09 9. FIFA 09 10. Fable II

Top LIVE Arcade Titles 1. Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix 2. Bomberman Live 3. A Kingdom for Keflings 4. Castle Crashers 5. Worms 6. UNO 7. Banjo-Kazooie 8. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 9. Portal: Still Alive 10. Braid

The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased.

As always for more of the latest gaming info, screenshots, trailers & videos, cheats and much more check back to our site.

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Bungie have just released new screenshots from two of the yet to be released arenas found within the forthcoming Halo 3 multi-player Mythic Map Pack which should become available sometime around March, 2009.

The Halo Wars Limited Collector's Edition is due for release in North America on March 3, 2009 and will include the three (3) new multi-playermaps among it's extras.

ORBITAL SCREENSHOTS
  

ASSEMBLY SCREENSHOTS
  

More screenshots are planned to be released this Friday on the bungie site!

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It looks like Ben Heck is at it again with hopefully another brilliant custom xbox 360.. We have reported previously on Ben's projects and thought our members and guests would find this as interesting as we all do here on 360-HQ.

Here's the latest info and images from his project page which also includes a cool video.

My latest project is an Xbox 360 stuffed inside of a Pelican 1490 case. The intention here to create a "tough" portable Xbox 360 that can be transported with ease.

This unit includes:

• 17″ widescreen LCD monitor.
  
• Built-in speakers.
  
• Power cable compartment.
  
• Reworked top-loading DVD drive.
  
• Removable hard drive.
  
• Ethernet and USB ports.

This unit was built because I’ve had a lot of requests for game consoles that could be used overseas by our servicemen and women and I thought it’d be interesting to take a crack at the concept. It was not built on consignment, a rarity for me these days, so it is up for grabs. I’m also interested the larger-scale possibilities of this kind of project if anyone has any ideas/money.



More Xbox 360 Project "Pelican Hero" images available by following the links.



Official Site: http://benheck.com"