"Dead Before Dawn" Mod coming on Halloween

The makers of the "Dawn of the Dead" movie-based Left 4 Dead mod "Dead Before Dawn" have been teasing the fans with videos and screenshots ever since L4D launched. Well, the day is finally here; the makers are putting the final touches on the mod, and have put a promised release date of October 31st.

From their site:

In the event that we do not see our finale up to scratch for release, we will NOT postpone the release. We promised you a halloween release date, a halloween release date is what your going to get. If this does happen, maps 1 - 5 will be released and an update for the campaign containing the finale will be released shortly after.

This looks to be a the biggest mod released for L4D, it includes a fully voiced character from the movie, CJ, head of Crossroads Mall security. He will be directing you through parts of the mall and various situations. Valve has even shown their support for the game by sending the mod makers a brand new soundfile of Francis saying "I hate malls".

Many more screens of the upcoming campaign are at the L4DMods Update.

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R2-D2 is stuck in the past

Popular Science reader Brian De Vitis has a thing for Star Wars, and a thing for retro gaming. He took these two interests and mashed them together with some engineering skills and this is what he got. It's a R2-D2 shaped cooler, modded to include 8 game consoles, a sound system and a projector mounted in R2's head. Awesome.

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Monkey Island 2 mod for Crysis

The Monkey Island series is getting a pretty decent amount of press lately, with the recently released Secret of Monkey Island:Special Edition graphical update hitting the PC and XBL Arcade. Well, now YouTube user loneclone has posted a new video of his Monkey Island mod made for Cryengine, and boy is it pretty. If you remember playing MI at all, then the set pieces that he has lovingly converted into beautiful 3D should be easy to spot. He also claims that the level featured here will be available to the public in the future.
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