The latest word in from this week reveals that the developer are closing in on the release of a new patch for zombie-shooting hit Left 4 Dead, the new update should be released by the end of the week, we hear.

"The problem on the PC side was a few large bugs affected other systems that we were going to rewrite on the PC so we ended up waiting to fix a whole class of bugs instead of just individual bugs," offered developer Chet Faliszek on the Steam forums, later telling ShackNews of Valve's release plans for the long-awaited patch.

"Also for the patching, the real key is to patch more often and not wait for everything to accumulate. Because of a perfect storm of events, this patch got larger than we would have liked and that really snowballed the time it is taking."

More on soon, hombres.

By Luke Guttridge

  • Left 4 Dead
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