For those of you that don't keep up with http://www.left4dead411.com or the official forums I paste for you this news.

Kotaku has posted a podcast with Chet Faliszek, taped a couple weeks ago, where Chet said Valve would be announcing their plans for downloadable content (DLC) shortly.

He mentions it twice in the 21 minute podcast, the first is near the beginning and he says:

So one of the things we're going to be announcing really shortly is some DLC on the PC and the 360. We'll be having both the Versus maps and some new stuff coming out.

And the next time is near the end:

If it wasn't the holidays and people weren't taking all these vacations here at Valve, you'd have seen that announcement already. We should be announcing that before Christmas - what the DLC is. The holidays aren't so much delaying it.. the press guys.. Doug has been taking some time. We'll have an announcement shortly, I don't know exactly when. We've got the DLC coming. We're going to do the 360 at the same time as the PC, and then we also have on the PC side the SDK coming out.

It looks like we'll have Dead Air and Death Toll on Versus mode and maybe some new maps. The rest of the podcast talks mainly about the story of Left 4 Dead and the way the story is told and how much Chet likes working at Valve. Go listen.

DLC code for update or are we gunna start having to pay for this stuff (I seem to remember some talk of that a while ago)?
The initial price for L4D was quite frankly extorniate to begin with.

I dont like the direction Valve is going in. Left 4 Dead was pretty expensive on its own, the idea of Valve charging for content that should have been in the original release anyway is annoying. I hope this isn't the end of free and regular Valve updates, they are by far the best thing about their games.

Hmm lol I think you guys are taking the new buzz acronym a little too seriously

DLC doesn't always mean pay-for and in this case I only think it is being used because they are talking about the 360 version as well. There's no doubt in my mind that this will be free patch content for the PC as usual.

Knowing Valve, the content will be free.

Maybe so, however if we do have to pay for it i'm coming to wales n stealing your bong nt!
Btw I like the new smilies

lmao just you try and take it Wooj! I will chew your arm off

I'm getting a RooR diffy for it today hopefully Bumps its worth up another £28

DLC != payfor content

All the free TF2 updates we've had up till now could have been referred to as DLC.

You're guessing.

Well no he is technically correct as DLC is just an acronym for downloadable content so includes any patches or additions to a game on any platform. Whether it is pay-for or not is a separate issue imho.

And yes its just a buzz acronym like I said, its overuse like anything else pisses me off, and mentioning it in the same phrase as PC patches was always going to confuse the issue.