Left 4 Dead won’t be released until next year on either PC or Xbox 360, Valve has told Eurogamer.

“We’re saying early 08,” Valve’s Chet Faliszek told us at QuakeCon. “Really we just want to make sure that when it’s released it’s great.”

There pretty much aren’t any games that stick to any kind of release date anymore, so they really should all go back to the “When it’s done!” mantra.

from Eurogamer.net

Not much news came out of Id during E3, as they generally reserve their breaking topics for Quakecon. And so the con has arrived and the guru of 3D technology, John Carmack, gave several of his always voluminous technical speeches on his new engine, called Tech 5, and the new game that will showcase it with the next in line of one word emotive names, Rage. The upcoming game appears to be a grimy, post-apocalyptic, dystopian FPS with a racing element. I think we can definitely tell most upcoming FPS have wandered away from the WWII heavy themes to this Fallout-like future primitive world scenario. Oh, and zombie games.

Here is the demo of Rage shown:

And here are three videos with Carmack talking about the new limitless texture and stamping technology.

(This is prime material for a drinking game, if everyone takes a swig everytime he says “artist”)