Everybody's favorite zombie stompin' sequel is enjoying a turn in the sun this week with lots of news about what's to come.  First and foremost, the boycotters are getting a big neener neener neener as a Valve representative told Eurogamer that pre-orders for the sequel are currently double that of the original's pre-order figures from the same time last year.  There's a little bit of spin control in there, big shocker there from a likely marketing type, seeing how the original didn't have a big coming out party until E3 2008 which didn't come out until almost the end of July.  That along with general sequel excitedness gives you inflated sales figures. Tada!

Getting the L4D2 pre-order not only gets you the right to pelvic thrust in joy, but early purchasers also get early access to the game's demo if you order it over Steam or with retailers for either the 360 or PC.  There's not been a date released as of yet, however with the November 17th release date approaching rapidly, one assumes this will be sooner rather than later.

There will be more Left 4 Dead 1 DLC by the end of the summer and of course the other news this week that L4D2 might work with L4D1.  Valve's Doug Lombardi said that developers are looking to see if there's some way to allow cross-play between the two games.  "That's something that we're trying to work out the details of right now," Lombardi said. "So nothing specific to say today, but we understand that it's a very valid thing to be working on and looking at."

All in all, it's a good week to like to kill zombies.