The Moditory

In a few days Valves latest creation is released to the world: Left 4 Dead. We've played the demo for both Xbox360 and PC. Granted, we are probably biased to the PC edition, however, we still feel that the PC version is objectively better. On expert it seems more challenging than the console version. In any case, we're impressed with the demo and if you haven't tried it yet, you should. With all the features that have been crammed into L4D and the combination of a intriguing story with solid multiplayer cooperative gameplay, it melds the Half-Life experience with Counter-Strike. We don't expect anything short of exceptional and if the demo is any inclination of what is to come, the game is going to be a must-have for the 2008 holiday season and probably the year. If you haven't checked it out yet, download the demo via Steam (www.steampowered.com) or get it on Xbox LIVE.

Official Site: www.l4d.com

It's tied up, 12-12, your teammates are dead and with a little work, you've fragged 4/5 members of the other team. 1 to go. Off to your right, you hear a footstep; you snap the mouse to the right across your mousepad, prepped to shoot and win, and... your mouse hits the floor. Game over. Mouse pads and their construction is important to computer users, whether for games or for design purposes, mousepads have two huge factors: size and surface. Func Industries has released a new line of cloth mousepads, the C-series. How do they hold up? How are they against acrylic pads? Does their Dye Sublimation process really work better than normal dying techniques? We shall see.