

With Left 4 Dead 2's November 17th release date almost upon us, that means the return of the "Dude, Where's My Thumb" contest, and another chance to be inventive and win awesome prizes. We were blown away by the inventiveness, humor, and photoshop mastery of some of the replies. L4D2's "Dude, Where's My Thumb 2" Contest NovemL4D Teamįor our Left 4 Dead 1 contest giveaway, we gave all you gamers a simple proposition: take a picture of yourself or a friend doing something creative in front of a L4D ad. Lastly, if you haven't already entered our " Dude, Where's My Thumb?" contest, remember that it closes Monday, so get creative this weekend and win a copy of the game or even a new Xbox! You can plug that picture into GameStop's " Leave Yourself 4 Dead" Online Zombifier and see what you'd look like as a ravenous, kill-crazy zombie. If you're looking at all these wallpapers and thinking, "These are okay, but they're not as good as the desktop wallpaper I have up now of my own face," have we got news for you. So we grabbed some of it off the nearest pile and made it into desktop wallpaper:Īnd we lest we forget our hard-working animators and modelers, Here's some high-res screengrab wallpaper from the game's intro, too: There's a mountain of this stuff fluttering around the Valve offices, and while the non-artists among us might not know much (anything) about art, we hope we're not embarrassing our artists by saying it looks pretty kickass.
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Get Free Wallpaper, Turn Yourself into a Zombie, and Win an Xbox NovemL4D Teamĭuring the production of a game, a lot of concept art gets drawn up, redrawn, thrown away, cursed at, and, occasionally, even used. Tuesday, November 17th, 2:00 PM Japan Standard TimeĪlso, if you were interested in learning a bit more about the Survivors you'll be playing as this Tuesday(ish), check out our Survivor pages for Nick, Ellis, Coach and Rochelle with character, weapon and item details.Tuesday, November 17th, 8:00 AM Moscow Time.Tuesday, November 17th, 5:00 AM Greenwich Mean Time.Tuesday, November 17th, 12:00 AM (midnight) Eastern Standard Time.Monday, November 16th, 11:00 PM Central Standard Time.Monday, November 16th, 10:00 PM Mountain Standard Time.Monday, November 16th, 9:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.Factor in the Earth rotating around the sun, daylight savings time, some of our fans insisting on using the Mayan calendar, and we're just going to try and make this as specific as possible: Today Left 4 Dead 2's new Special Infected get their turn: The Spitter, the Charger, and the Jockey.ĭue to an ongoing debate in the office and online as to whether "12 AM" means noon or midnight ( we're still sticking with midnight), it's been more challenging than we realized to tell people when exactly our game will be available. Last Friday we posted character pages for Ellis, Coach, Nick and Rochelle. He even has a fake beard, just like bald old completely hairless Bill. This entry comes to us from Luca Calabrese, sporting the best Bill costume we've ever seen. Otherwise we have no way to explain what's happening in this photo.) It was probably our favorite among the non-photoshopped entries, and one of the few entries we got that incorporated the Jockey. This entry comes from Alec Benjamin Miller. We liked how happy this Hunter seems to be with himself. But with the level of detail and originality of its premise, it was awesome enough that it wins anyway.Ģ5 runners-up will be getting signed copies of Left 4 Dead 2 for their entries. one) customized "infected" Xbox 360 for his entry below: Congratulations to contest winner Roland Nagy, who just won himself an extremely limited edition (i.e. The "Dude, Where's My Thumb?" contest is officially closed. Our Contest Winners, and L4D2's New Special Infected NovemL4D Team
