Valve has released the official Left 4 Dead tools so you can create your own levels.

David Jaffe thinks that zombie games are -- for the most part -- "played out". His mini-rant on Twitter inspired The Enquirer of gaming blogs to ask the question: have we had enough?

According to Josh Olin of Treyarch -- who is currently very busy hyping the upcoming Call of Duty: World at War map pack and introduction of a Japanese-themed variant of Nazi Zombies -- the answer is a resounding NO.

Valve to the rescue! The Left 4 Dead creators have released the official software tools to help you design your own zombie apocalypse maps and scenarios.

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Sadly, WaW is no longer on sale. It was a steam weekend only deal.

As for the L4D SDK, this is great news. As I know quite a few groups already have resources prepared for the release so we should start seeing custom content for the PC shortly.

I know over at Immortal Machines (on the CoG Network) a bunch of people are starting up a modding group so stop by if you are interested http://www.colonyofgamers.com/cogforums/showthread.php?t=8547

Very interested, going have to wait until after graduation though (next year) Don't have a quality PC rig. But I'll keep the SDK just in case.

Wow, those SketchUp plug-ins sound really awesome. I can't wait to model my campus for some zombie apocalypse action

Hopefully they will have something where the best maps eventually get but on steam as well xbox live. Would be awesome to see user content come to live to keep L4D alive and well, unlike Team Fortress 2 which the maps still haven't hit for the 360 .

The 360 version needs an editor too! If Bungie can do it with Forge then Valve should be able to come up with *something.

The SDK is far more complicated than Forge. They would do far better off putting the best custom content onto the live version after they've been tested on the PC version.