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Left 4 Dead 2 Dead Air DLC Getting Early Release

Good news for PC Left 4 Dead 2 players eagerly awaiting the official release of the next batch of DLC for the zombie shooting game: Valve has announced that one piece of the upcoming Cold Stream downloadable content will be released early.

Last week, Valve revealed that if at least 20,000 people testing the Cold Stream campaign could earn the achievement for completing it this weekend, Valve would release Dead Air early. Joystiq reports that the Eager Steam community quickly overcame that challenge, with a grand total of 60,744 "Stream Crosser" achievements unlocked. As such, the Dead Air part of the Cold Stream update will be released early -- Valve is saying by July 22 at the latest.

Dead Air is actually a campaign from the original Left 4 Dead that is being updated for compatibility with Left 4 Dead 2. The full, final Cold Stream DLC will include Dead Air, two other L4D1 campaigns, and a user-created campaign that has been community-tested.

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  • Steam, a community dedicated to their games... games that rule, if I might add!
  • Cool. :/

  • Nothing for the consoles, like usual. At least Valve is supporting their community.
  • Finally more Left 4 Dead 2 dlc!  :D

  • Sweet.

  • Awesome, but i stopped playing l4d2 a while back.
  • I'm not sure why they don't release these for the 360. Valve does like money, right?
  • too bad microsoft wont let them publish any free dlc.

  • Yes!!! Dead Air is one of my favorite campaigns. So happy it's on its way! Now Valve, about HL3...
  • 360? Please? Dead Air was my favorite campaign of L4D and I'd love some more L4D2 action.
  • *swats in the general direction of L4D* Your time has passed dear, move along. Make way for Dead Island ;P
  • I hope the Dead Air port isn't going to be as half assed as the No Mercy one was.

  • Glad I own L4D2 on both 360 and PC. Still wish it could show up on Xbox though.

  • Why can't everyone be like you 10X i will be waiting for it

  • I just got it during the summer sale, but I can't play it yet! *** cheap laptop, well at least soon I'll have my gaming rig to play with my pals.

  • Cold Stream was awful in my opinion

  • That's really good but they should do that with one of the map packs with a Xbox or a PS3 game.

  • So does this mean that L4D2 now has all the campaigns from L4D1?
  • If it doesn't have rochele, I like it.

  • I was one of those 60,744 people that got the achievement. I feel so special. :P

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