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• Old school remake of L4D into a top-down shooter.
• Authentic NES-style graphics (16 colours!) and audio (4 channel soundtrack!).
• To be released as a freeware game on 4 January.
• All five Boss Infected and all four L4D campaigns will be included in the game.
• OMG FIREBALL BOOMER!

Still feeling peeved at Infinity Ward for removing dedicated servers from Modern Warfare 2? Never underestimate the PC community, for some aspiring MW2 PC gamers have managed to hack into the developer console and enabled the ability to set up dedicated servers.

• Yet another WoW video of Mr. T, this time it advertises the new Mohawk grenade.
• The Mohawk grenade is given by the Night Elf Mohawk NPC. He can be found at any WoW starting location.
• The grenade has five charges. Anyone caught in the blast radius will be turned into a Night Elf Mohawk.
• This is a real WoW update. No joke.

You can view Mr. T's original WoW video ad below:

Gearbox has released a mini-update for Borderlands. If you have the Steam version of Borderlands, the update will be automatically applied once you login to Steam. Otherwise, you can download the patch for the retail version here.

You've read about how Borderlands manages to mash-up Diablo's style of character levelling and item farming into a 3D, FPS perspective. Other games such as Hellgame: London have tried a similar mash-up but failed miserably. What makes Borderlands so special?

The Good
A true Diablo-FPS:

Co-op done right:

Well constructed game universe:

• DLC will be released for Xbox 360 and PS3 on 24 November, PC "soon after"
• New enemies: Zombies, Psycho Zombies, Defilers, Tankensteins
• Tankensteins can carry loot chests on their backs (awesome!)
• 50 new quests, 5 new dungeons
• 6 to 10 hours of gameplay
• About US$10 for console, no news about PC

The L4D2 mass order on GameAxis has arrived this morning. Let's take a look at the goodies inside the packaging, shall we?