Valve has announced a brand new downloadable chapter for both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 titled The Sacrifice. Set before the events of last DLC; The Passing, it will detail exactly how one of the original four survivors met their grisly, yet noble end.

The Sacrifice will star the original cast of Francis, Zoey, Louis and Bill; even if you play it via Left 4 Dead 2. However, Valve is not only just giving L4D2 players a chance to play as the originals survivors without loading the original, it’s also throwing the entire “No Mercy” campaign into the DLC for free. While details are very slim on when the DLC comes out, Valve did also confirm that there will be more Left 4 Dead 2 DLC after this upcoming package.

Valve has confirmed the release date of this week’s “The Passing,” which will be this Thursday, and the price will be 560 MSP on Xbox 360, and free for PC players.

Along with the previously mentioned additions, Valve has also revealed the every new achievement being added, along with a new “Mutations” feature.

Read on for the Achievements, and more info about “Mutations!”

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Arriving almost exactly a month later than originally scheduled, the Left 4 Dead 2 add-on campaign, “The Passing,” will be released next week, complete with a few new weapons, a new uncommon common named the “Fallen Survivor,” an encounter with the original Left 4 Dead 1 cast, and even two new gameplay modes!

Even a new Midnight Riders track will be in it, entitled “Save Me Some Sugar.”

It is currently unknown exactly what the two gameplay types will be. The add-on will cost 560 MSP.

Valve has promised more news on the new campaign within the week, so keep an eye out!

Along with the recent sale of Left 4 Dead 2 on Amazon and Steam, Valve released some new but vague information on their upcoming DLC, The Passing. New weapons, an all new Fallen Survivor uncommon common, and a reunion with 3 members of the cast from the original hit series Left 4 Dead have all been previously announced to be part of their action-packed DLC. But with their new Steam Midweek Madness Announcement, The Passing will also come with new game modes. Unfortunately, they’ve also reported the release date as Spring, much more vague than their X10 “Late March” prediction. Has Valve fallen behind, or do they have a trick up their sleeve? Stay tuned to Xbox360Digest.com to find out!

[Via Kotaku and Steam]

Considering Left 4 Dead 2 has been out for only two months, its astounding that the community has managed to kill 28 Billion Zombies. Here are the stats:

[Via Left4Dead 2 Blog]

In the first two months of Left 4 Dead 2′s release, 28,981,249,043 zombies have been shot, bludgeoned, chainsawed and killed — or, for our younger readers, taken to a farm where they can frolic and shuffle around forever.
You read that correctly: 28 BILLION. To put that number in perspective:

• The entire population of the planet has been zombified and killed 4.26 times.
• With the average height of a zombie being 6 feet, if you stacked them end to end they would circle the globe 1,322 times.

To go along with Valve’s announcement of a release date for the latest Downloadable Add-on, The Passing, these set of screenshots were released to raise a bit of hype for the later release in March. Being an insane Left 4 Dead fan, I can say this is working quite well! Read more to view the rest of them, and check out the new Uncommon Common, the Fallen Survivor.

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With today’s Microsoft X10 Event, the gaming community received word on some of the most anticipated games of the upcoming months. Information on highly awaited sequels such as Halo: Reach and Dead Rising 2 were revealed, along with newcomers such as Alan Wake, and even a glimpse at the upcoming Left 4 Dead 2: The Parish DLC. Hit the link below for more information.

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Xbox announced a few games today at their X10 event, see the full press release after the break as well as a few more pictures. We can also expect Final Fantasy and it’s Special Edition Console to be released on March 9 for $400. Other games announced at X10 include Fable III, the CES newly-announced Game Room, Halo: Reach, and the Xbox exclusive Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack.

[Via Gamerscore Blog and Major Nelson]

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The Digest: Alright, fine… I’ll put down my controller long enough to type a review…

Today was a prevalent day for Xbox 360 owners, showing us the release of two heavy-hitting sequels. Assassin’s Creed 2 was launched, the follow up to the ever-popular and ever-repetitive Crusade action game. Hopes were high that the sequel would retain the joyous elements of the first title, while fixing the things that made it a tedious punch in the face after a few hours.

But alas, I am poor, so I am only here to comment about the other big-time release for today: Left 4 Dead 2.

Against a long-running boycott and plenty of dissatisfied fans, the zombie shooting sequel hit shelves today just around a year after the launch of the first game. While there are tons of gamers out there who never thought they got their money’s worth with the first game, I say “meh,” and am happy to get more of something I enjoy. Money is extremely tight for me, but I’m not high and mighty enough to whine about feeling short changed. Nobody got their money out of Turok, Perfect Dark Zero, Soldier of Fortune Payback, King Kong, or hundreds of other games, either. Then again, nobody bought those games. Regardless, people only complained because Left 4 Dead was a big deal, and because it’s made by Valve – a company with historically high standards for pleasing their community.

But enough about that crap. It’s done and over with, and the sequel is here. UPS dropped it off at around noon today, and I just got up to take a break seven hours later.

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One of the most exciting multiplayer games coming out this year is Left 4 Dead 2.  Releasing on Nov. 17, this sequel to the award-winning left 4 dead has new characters, enemies, and new locations including …the “Big Easy”.  There are 5 campaigns all taking place in the American south and some taking place during the daytime.  The zombies will react different during the day (like the witch roams around crying instead of sitting in one place).  All of you campers from the first game (myself included) that would get in a corner and wait for the horde will be out of luck in this game.  Now when you hit a switch to alert the horde there will be another switch for you to hit in a different location to stop them.  There will also be several new zombies types in the game, but what I am excited about mostly are the new melee weapons.  From the trailer I saw there was a chainsaw, bats, and an axe.  For more info check out IGN’s first look here.

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