Newell: Left 4 Dead delayed a few weeks

or because of gears of war 2

Last week, IGN had listed Left 4 Dead as a November 17 release. The 20th is essentially the same thing.

Honestly this helps me out a bit, and I can see it'll help sales of the game in general too.

That three-week window of game releases was already going to break me (Oct 20-Nov 7) what with Dead Space, Fable II, Far Cry II, Fallout III and Gears of War 2 coming out essentially on top of each other.

Does that mean they have to change the name to left 20 dead?

Nice. I won't have to divide my playing time between Mirror's Edge and L4D now. A good week to soak in ME, and a lifetime to plow through the undead in L4D with three of my closest friends.

Valve can afford delays. Look at how Half Life turned out.

Nooooooo, oh well doesnt a few other things come outon the 20th as well?

I remember looking forward to this year's Holiday season back last November, and thinking that there wouldn't be much to be excited about other than the new Gears sequel. Boy, was I wrong!

I do have to say that out of all the games on my short-list, Left 4 Dead wouldn't have been the one I'd have chosen to release the latest, but it's all good I guess.

out of Silent Hill Homecoming, Dead Space, Fable II, Far Cry II, Fallout III, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: World at War, Mirror's Edge, Quantum of Solace, Lord of The Rings Conquest and Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia on the DS, I would have rather have waited longest for Fable II personally. It kind of has that Olde English, Charles Dickensian feel going for it that would be best suited for a December/Christmas
release as far as I see it.

(Yes, that was my SHORT list this fall.)

haha, how funny, i was going to get this if it did release on my birthday (nov 4th) but this must be a sign for me not to get it!!

That picture is a gamers worst nightmare!

I'm assuming they're going to take those extra weeks in development to figure out how they can screw over the 360 players by giving DLC only to the PC people until sometime around 2010.

Well that kinda sucks though I do think it's better having a game or two knocked back so that I dont end up wondering which to get first

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Haha, now wait for Epic to delay GoW2 until November 21st... see Valve say "oh wait we hired a few extra guys and L4D can come out November 4th after all!"

:D

Whew, this news i can deal with,