I love good news stories, where the quirky-yet-loveable underdog overcomes adversity and wins the day.  I also like free things.  So that’s why when forum member Big But 5 mentioned in the forums that Steam was having a free play weekend for Killing Floor, I immediately jumped on Steam to set it to download before I took off for work.  YAY!  Shiny, new game waiting for me when I get home, and it’s free to play for the entire weekend!

For those of you who might have missed it, Killing Floor is a mod of Unreal Tournament 2004 which involves 6 player co-op zombie killing….wait, did I say “zombie”?  I meant, “military experiments gone wrong”.  Bottom line, the mod team who created the game in 2005 (before Left 4 Dead, mind you!) brought it to Tripwire Interactive in 2008 to see about getting it put on Steam.  Tripwire enjoyed the experience so much, they offered to make it a full, stand-alone game, which came out this May.  See, that’s some good news: plucky upstart mod team tinkers around with the Unreal engine, and after years of work on their labor of love, it gets it’s own retail release.

Hey, it’s Extra Life make up weekend, and six player co-op on PC sounds like a pretty damn good idea to me, especially because it’s only a free download away from everyone’s computer this weekend!

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