Valve has announced that the free, squad shooter Alien Swarm has received an update. A new "Onslaught" mode adds an AI Director for players to contend with. That means there will be swarms of aliens spawning in based on whatever mad science they've devised and the mode works with any of the game's difficulty settings.
Speaking of difficulty settings, that's the next big part of the update. "Brutal" difficulty is now available to play and Valve claims that nobody on the Alien Swarm team has completed a mission on the setting. On top of that, there's now a "Hardcore Friendly Fire" option which ups the penalty for not keeping your teams firing lines clear.
Alien Swarm Adds AI Director, New Difficulty [Steam News via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
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5:00 AM on 08.24.2010 | 
Sentience!
Even though you've been able to enable the director since the game came out, with: asw_horde_override 1.
But hey, I ain't sneezing at new content. Even if it is just a new mode and difficulty.
With the right team, it's damn fun playing on insane; trumps all other difficulties. Can't wait to try out this new mode.
Right... and now you don't have to "cheat" in order to enable it.
How's it feel to have that extra 2 gigs of space?
using TF2 fanboy logic
feels good man