In a recent interview with 1up.com, Valve has revealed that Xbox Live gamers will not have to worry about online lag because Left 4 Dead on Xbox Live will be running off of dedicated servers. Xbox players not online need not worry because the game will also feature a split-screen option for the campaign. Valve also wanted to make sure that everybody understands that they will be pushing content and updates out to the 360 version of the game about as fast as possible in order to not feel the same effects of Team Fortress 2. Team Fortress 2 has not recieved any of the patches and upgrades that the PC players have been enjoying for months. Left 4 Dead is set to be released on November 18 for the Xbox 360 and PC.

The box art for the most anticipated PS3 game has recently been revealed. It features a slew of characters from the game and is so cute it almost hurts. The box art is near identical to the European box art released earlier this month. You can expect LittleBigPlanet this coming October.

August 31 marks the 13 year anniversary of the Command and Conquer franchise. In order to coincide with this anniversary and the impending release of Red Alert 3, EA is giving away the original Red Alert free of charge. Just visit www.redalert3.com on Sunday to download the entire original game.As an extra bonus you can recieve a download of Red Alert 2 as well as exclusive Red Alert 3 wallpapers and an exclusive map by pre-ordering the new game from the site. The downloads start August 31 at 12:00 AM Pacific.

EA’s new original IP, Dead Space, was set to scare gamers this Halloween, but has since been pushed forward over a week to October 21 in North America and October 24 in Europe. A demo has not been confirmed, but considering EA’s track record you can expect one sometime before the game’s launch.

UPDATE: Recently EA has announced that the North American release date for the game has, once again, been pushed up to October 14.

According to the Quatermann in the October issue of EGM, Max Payne 3 is in the works. The title however allegedly is not being worked on by Remedy due to their focus on Alan Wake. Instead the game will be worked on by the internal Rockstar studio behind The Warriors. Could this be the news we have all been waiting for? I’m somewhat upset it’s reportedly not being worked on by Remedy, but Alan Wake looks phenomenal. Check out the link for the full story.

Max Payne 3 In The Works?

The long awaited Xbox Live release of Castle Crashers is finally upon us. This will be the second game developed and published by the independent studio, The Behemoth, after Alien Hominid hit consoles and Xbox Live Arcade a couple of years ago. The game is a 4-player, sidescrolling beat- em- up in which your character battles through hordes of enemies with brute force,including an array of weapons, and magic. To add more depth the game also includes a leveling up system in order to acquire stronger attacks and better magic abilities.  The game is gory, over the top, and allows up to 4 players locally or online to play cooperatively through the campaign or go head to head in the versus mode. Castle Crashers will be coming at you this Wednesday on Xbox Live Arcade for 1200 Points.

According to reports at RPG-TVMicrosoft UK apparently told the crew that the Fall Update is set to be released sometime in November. This will be Microsoft’s biggest update this year since they decided to skip the Spring update earlier in the year in order to shift focus completely on the Fall Update. The major additions coming include a totally new dashboard layout, Avatars, Netflix support, and a universal party system. Nothing has been officially confirmed by Microsoft, but chances are November is a pretty good bet. Hopefully all will go smooth with the update since Microsoft’s biggest game of the year, Gears of War2, drops that month also.

The Joker is the main attraction of the newest gameplay trailer of Midway’s Mortal Kombat vs DC Unvierse released recently on Gametrailers.com. The video details a variety The Joker’s moves and even shows off the first villian fatality they have shown from the upcoming fighter. Make sure to watch the video all the way through to the end in order to see the fatality.

According to Joystiq.com, while talking to some representatives at X08 in Toronto, it was revealed that the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade release of Duke Nukem was getting a few new features not seen in the original. This news comes not too long after the announcement of the games September release. The first of these features is a rewind function which allows you to rewind at any point in the game to relive an exciting moment or to undo a death. The second addition is the save film feature. This addition takes a page out of Halo 3’s book and allows players to record videos from multiplayer sesions and upload them online for others to watch. The only piece of info not really known about the release is the price point, but compared to other similar titles on Live Arcade the price will probably be somewhere around the 800 Point mark.

The newest iteration of the Fallout franchise finally has a finally been given a  firm release date of October 28. The game comes from Bethesda Studios, the creators of the critically acclaimed Elder Scrolls 4:Oblivion, who bought the rights to the franchise from Interplay. The game ditches its old isometric view and instead takes up a First-Person perspective like Oblivion. The hype for the game has been palpable ever since the first screens and video surfaced. Check out some screens of the upcoming title below.