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Valve, Capcom borrow each other's characters for game crossovers

Characters from Valve's Left 4 Dead 2 will be playable within Capcom's Resident Evil 6 and, likewise, enemies from Resident Evil 6 will appear in an update for Left 4 Dead 2.

Frank Cifaldi, Contributor

March 15, 2013

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Newsbrief: In what has become a continuing trend for the service, the upcoming PC version of Capcom's Resident Evil 6 will contain Valve-contributed content when it becomes available on the Steam platform on April 5. Characters from Valve's Left 4 Dead 2 will be playable within Capcom's Resident Evil 6 and, likewise, enemies from Resident Evil 6 will appear in an update for Left 4 Dead 2. This isn't the first time Valve IP has appeared exclusively in the Steam version of another publisher's game: previously, characters from its Team Fortress 2 appeared in the Steam versions of Sega's Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing and Robot Entertainment's Hero Academy.

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