THE LATEST NEWS FROM JANUARY 2009

Zombies might be cold, dead things, but Valve's coop shooter Left4Dead was full of them and happened to be the hot new thing in town.

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The game received universal acclaim, gaining scores of 5/5 from 360 and 9/10 each from Total PC Gaming, games™ and X360, adding to last month's haul of 93% in PC Gamer, 9/10 in Edge and 8/10 in Official Xbox 360 Magazine. 360 felt that it was “almost certainly the best coop shooter ever made”, praising the decision to split the campaign into short sections and saying that there was “just as much joy in witnessing the game punish the single-minded as there is in exploding any number of zombie crania”.

The rebooted Prince Of Persia generally received a warm welcome this month, earning 83% from Play, 8/10 from both games™ and X360 and 7/10 from Total PC Gaming, in addition to 8/10 scores in OXM and Official PlayStation Magazine last month. Play felt that the “visually arresting” game offered “a brilliant way of keeping the pace up and avoiding monotonous backtracking” by having the princess Elika rescue you from fatal falls. Other magazines were less impressed, with scores of 3/5 in 360 and 49% in PC Gamer.