Left 4 Dead delayed until November, children weep

There’s nothing more satisfying that sitting down after Thanksgiving turkey and playing video games until you pass out. This year, that game might be Left 4 Dead. In a recent interview with Shacknews, Valve’s marketing director, Doug Lombardi mentioned that Valve was looking to do a simultaneous worldwide release for Left 4 Dead some time in November, several months after the initial summer release date. This isn’t particularly surprising, given Valve’s history of long delays (hey there, Half-Life).
While some delays are signs of a gaming sinking in development quicksand, Left 4 Dead is almost complete, says Lombardi:
So the game is pretty much playable all the way through right now. And as we’ve done with most of our games, we get to a point where, it’s playable all the way through, there are some [minor] issues that we need to work on, and we try to add more time to […]

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