Botjira’s pieces are all made using recycled materials, such as magazines and recycled paper. Botjira also sends any leftover paper scraps to be recycled. It takes Botjira anywhere from five minutes to a few hours to make each piece. If you’d like to get an idea of how the collages are made, Botjira posted a step-by-step of the making of the Chell piece here.

You really should check out Botjira’s deviantART page to see the pieces in more detail. You can also order prints some of Botjira’s collages here. Each piece costs $10 (USD), excluding shipping.

[via Buzzfeed]

The new campaign, fittingly named “The Passing,” is described as the most important in all the games, as it’s the culmination of everyone’s struggle for survival. “The Passing will become the most important campaign in the Left 4 Dead story, as all the Survivors are being called together in one campaign,” said Valve’s Doug Lombardi. “It will also be a huge offering of new gameplay content, with something new for every game mode plus a new uncommon common and weaponry.”

Let’s hope the new guys are a little less creepy than the Mudmen. As for the new game modes, the most interesting addition is referred to as a new type of co-op challenge – survivors vs. survivors in a race to the safe room? Sign me up. Too bad you can’t mix and match. I’d take Coach and Francis any day, for hilarity’s sake.

“The Passing” is set for sometime in early 2010.

Or maybe sometimes a hilarious cookie is just a cookie.

Whatever the motive behind these amazing little gingerbread dudes, they are just about perfect, from the daft and simple smiles to the zombie currently in the process of losing his head, these capture a gleeful, happy version of the zombie apocalypse game. You know, something for the holidays, because there’s nothing like zombies for the holidays.

I do believe the wrong zombies are spitting, however. But once eaten, they all look the same.

[via Hawty McBloggy]

Oh, not so exciting? Alright, try this: in some scenarios, AI team members lollygagged around instead of firing at Jockeys and Chargers. Definitely annoying. Ellis needs to wade in there with his shotgun and save my butt if I have a Jockey on my face. So that’s fixed. Jolly good.

And yeah, right, there was one other little detail, too… let me see, here’s the official release:

• Fixed bug where a burning witch could get into a state where she’s invincible.

What? Dudes, really: announce that one first. Seriously, everyone wants to burn the witch. We’re geeks, most of us; we love Monty Python and witch-burning hilarity is a sacred thing. If a burning, angry witch–already a formidable adversary–is unkillable, not only do I want that business fixed yesterday, but scream it from the roofops. HEY GUYS! You can totally kill those witches now. Sorry. Our bad.

Glad that’s settled.

So what are you scavenging? Gas cans. The setup, at first, is not unlike versus in the first game; one set of players step into the shoes of the survivors, and others act as special infected. But instead of escaping, the objective here is to collect gas cans and bring them back, while the zombies do their best to ruin everyone’s day. The team that, in their time as the survivors, collects the most gas cans wins.

Other aspects Left 4 Dead players should be used to are still in effect here: infected players have limited spawn points, of course, and there are always all the other zombies. But the added fetch challenge stands to add a whole new dimension to the co-op game, which is out next month.

[via Game|Life]

The demo, available October 27 (just in time for the game’s November release) will feature not only the game’s new melee weapons, but of course, multiplayer action, because everyone knows it’s no fun much less fun to hunt zombies alone. More dangerous, too.

I may have already pre-ordered the sequel, but you can bet I’ll be getting in on some demo action. I’m dying to know whether or not the big guy hates vans (and everything else).

[via Joystiq]

Only a year? Sounds less-than-exciting, considering that there’s only been a few (free!) add-ons for the original, and the modding scene–always popular with Valve’s games–has not yet had much time to develop fully. For most companies, that might mean a sequel that just offers more of the same… the sort of thing that should just be an expansion.

Not so with the second installment of Left 4 Dead. There are some big improvements in the works here, and not only new locations (New Orleans), new characters, new weapons (chainsaw!) and new special infected. The AI Director will have even more power than before, including the ability to change the layout of the stages as you proceed. Perhaps even better for those of us who are complete masochists when it comes to the zombie genre (long live the original Dead Rising save system!), the creators are even working to make dirty little tricks less possible. You want to survive? You want to win? You’re going to have to do more than hide in a corner out of the reach of the violent masses.

Also? Frying pans. Oh yes.

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Now they need to get to work on Left 4 Dead 3… the version that will use those newfangled Xbox 360 body controls.

[via RockPaperShotgun]