This weekend, myself and others will be fighting off hordes of Zombies co-operatively in Valve's latest offering - Left 4 Dead.

The server setup is very straight forward and super easy for players to join - though we are using Hamachi, as the server only allows access to C Class (LAN IPs) addresses.

Update (23/11): The gameplay is incredible. I haven't had this much fun being overrun with enemies and had awesome co-operative gameplay in a long time, with battles of epic proportions and most importantly, L4D has longevity.

With the AI Director, which changes the gameplay every time you play and if Valve can continue to produce new "movies" for consumption, L4D will be on my hard drive for years to come.



Best of all, there is already hope over at l4dmods.com, where you can check out the latest community made content, starting with "Dead Before Dawn - Enter the Mall", which is based off the shopping mall from Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead - one of the best Zombie movies ever made.

Check out X-Play's review of Valve's awesome Zombie game - Left 4 Dead.

{mosimage}Now that Windows 7 Beta is gaining traction news-wise, as the beast at Redmond speaks, a group of us have band together to bring to the world our shared experiences about Windows 7.



Vista blew dog -- so, can Windows 7 prevail ? Find out more at win7beta.wordpress.com.



At the site, you can expect lots of great content, so please add the RSS feed to your favourite feeder or come by the site and drop some comments every now and then.

"Small Basic has been designed specifically for novice developers. The easy to use programming language allows beginners to get a clear understanding of the fundamentals of programming and have lots of fun on the way."

Well, that's the Microsoft blurb out of the way -- what they have done (besides releasing a product named after an existing one), is create a small subset version of a VB.net like language, that uses a very interesting "intellisense" IDE.


As an example, here's what you would type for a Hello World example:-

TextWindow.WriteLine("Hello World")

Small Basic is just that, a very simple language you could use to teach people to get into programming or to write small, simple applications. I thought it was very cool, that it comes with a Turtle object, so you can perform Logo-like operations.

Click here for the official blog and/or here for the forums.

Watch as Newstopia gives us the lowdown on the Reserve Bank -- I guess we've got no choice but to laugh.