PlayStation 3 owners have been dying to get a chance to play Valve's zombie franchise Left 4 Dead for some time. But now it looks like there's reason to start holding out hope.

While the studio has had harsh things to say about Sony's console in the past, Valve appears to be finally be warming up to the idea of developing for it.Left 4 Dead writer Chet Faliszek recently told Edge the developer has been cautious with its approach to supporting the platform, but said he believes it'll happen eventually."Before we do anything on the PS3 we need to be able to support it in the right way," said Faliszek. "But we'll look at it, and I'm sure down the road we'll do it."The PlayStation 3 version of The Orange Box , released in 2007, was outsourced to Electronic Arts while the Xbox 360 and PC versions were done internally at Valve's studio in Bellevue, Washington.We contacted Valve for additional comments and will update this story if we hear back.