Usually, when a sequel is announced for a successful game, people are happy. That's not exactly the case for the upcoming Left 4 Dead 2, though, as more than 16,000 players have signed an online petition that pledges to boycott the game. The boycotters have stated their belief that Left 4 Dead 2 "does not warrant a stand-alone, full-priced sequel" and should just be released as DLC for the original game instead. Valve's Chet Faliszek, however, says that it's too big to be DLC.

Usually, when a good title is announced to have a sequel, fans take it as good news. That's not the case apparently for Left 4 Dead's (Xbox 360, PC) community base. Over at Steam's Community Groups, some 15,000 members (and counting) are calling for a boycott of Left 4 Dead 2, and with a lot of reasons to back them up. Not getting why they're all so upset? Let them count the ways. After the jump that is.

And so the Survival Pack for Valve's Left 4 Dead has finally landed - for free! Coupled with this news is that of a special new price for both the retail and Steam versions of the game. You can check out the list of new things you can do in the Survival Pack, as well as the new price details, over at the full article.

*UPDATE* A patch has been rolled out for the PC version's DLC to squish some issues.

Valve's Kerry Davis and Scott Dalton have posted a rather detailed look at the upcoming Survival Pack for Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360, PC), exploring a lot of the nuances found in the new Survival mode. The name itself triggers images of having to survive for as long as possible, but it's going to be much more than that.

Valve just reveled the details of their latest update for Left 4 Dead. Apart from server and back end issue fixes that wel all wanted so badly, the developers seemed to think it would be funny to upgrade the Tank. Oh sure, very funny Gabe, give that nasty son of a ***** new powers! Details inside.

Mario games have always been popular in the UK, and Super Mario Galaxy proves it by beating out the likes of Fallout 3, Fable II, and even GTA IV for BAFTA's Best Game Award. The GAME Award this year goes to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, as voted on by gamers.

Full list of winners after the link.

Valve's gearing up for the launch of the Left 4 Dead DLC with today's release of a massive patch for the game's Xbox 360 version. The patch is a mandatory update so just fire up Left 4 Dead and you'll be asked to install it. A full change list is available after the jump.

Free DLC? On the Xbox 360? Will wonders never cease. It's been officially confirmed by Valve that the upcoming DLC for Left 4 Dead will be free for both the Xbox 360 and the PC.

There have been rumors going around that Left 4 Dead, a shooter from Valve that's only out for the Xbox 360 and the PC, is coming to the PS3. I checked it out and I couldn't believe it, in fact, I had to double check everything we had on the Valve title just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. What did Valve have to say about it? It's all in the full article.

It's zombies versus pirates in the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead. Several mods for the game have been found, causing rampant cheating in Versus mode. Don't worry though, Valve has issued a server-side fix to get rid of them nasty pirates.