Love that additional detail to the little fella. The reference to the St. Bernard recue dog is also a nice touch. Fanboy in me says it's assets in production for HL3, but I know it's not true. It's not true. It's not true.
Let's listen to Bioshock Infinite music to celebrate the rebrand: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsJs8eSUgOjFIgwvMK0djgL55RHhNlRzu&feature=view_all
Death to Valve Time. Long live Irrational Time.
Here's a quote from one of two people that met up with some of the devs at GDC 2011. It's kind of vague, but I agree nonetheless. l4dmaps.com is not an ideal experience and workshop is a fantastic direction.
edit: one thing l4dmaps.com does, or did(?): pay to promote maps. Not sure if they...
From the l4dmapper mailing list... I remember one mappers account with a Valve employee when he had a chance to meet for lunch. Valve was not happy with what L4DMaps.com was doing with fans of the game. So I find the workshop a great way to let that site slowly die or turn into a dumping ground...