L4D’s Survival Pack is Free, so sayeth Valve

You can rest easy now, folks: Valve has confirmed that Left 4 Dead’s upcoming “Survival Pack” DLC will indeed be free for both PC and Xbox 360. And before you exclaim “wtf this is news?” in the comments, note that while Valve has always released free content updates for the PC, Microsoft/Xbox Live has had a history of forcing devs to charge for some updates that would otherwise be free – including Valve, concerning the Team Fortress 2 patches for the 360. So yes, this is great news.

Previously announced last week, the upcoming update will contain two additional campaigns for the game’s Versus mode – tweaked-for-balance versions of the Death Toll and Dead Air single player campaigns – along with a brand new multiplayer option called Survival Mode. In Survival, players will work together to see who can last the longest against wave after wave of those pesky zombies (similar to Horde in Gears of War). 

For PC users, the update will also contain L4D’s SDK, which will allow custom campaign creation for all those ambitious modders out there. As Valve notes on Steam, the update will hit both platforms sometime in the spring.