Valve will release a new update for Left 4 Dead 2, almost 11 years after its co-operative zombie shooter was first unleashed.
The Last Stand does not yet have a release date – the finer details are still on their way, Valve has said in an official blog post – but the update is very real.
It is, as Left 4 Dead 2 fans will likely know, a community-made effort (this isn’t the first time Valve has approved community content for a long-dormant game and released it under an official guise).
But it still marks the first officially released new addition to the game in quite some time:
“It has been many years since the infection first hit. Radio silence, no sign of life, nothing but lingering hopes…” Valve said, presumably of its recent support for Left 4 Dead 2. “CEDA is not going to save us. But there is hope!