Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Research at the RPS news desk means someone asks a question in chat and the others ignorantly speculate. Google is right there, but you don’t get good responses to keen, incisive questioning, in this case about the newly announced Anno 2070 Deep Ocean expansion pack: “Anno 2070:
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WELCOME again to CALL OF DUTY CENTRAL! Yeeeeehaaaaw! As you know RPS is the number one CALL OF DUTY fansite on the internet, because CALL OF DUTY is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today for you guys we have a TIMER counting down to when the world will discover the name of the next
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A few weeks back, The Atlantic ran a profile on Braid creator Jonathan Blow . It was a great read, and I enjoyed the insight into the developer, but at the same time, he came across to many as a bit of a pretentious asshole. If you're of that same opinion, you'll dig this "missin
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Portal may be the name for a contemporary series from Valve, about mad robots and jumpsuits, but it's also the name of a video game first released nearly thirty years ago. That game, Portal - Valve got the trademark after the original ceased using it - was a strange adventure tit
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Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles is Now Available on Steam! Help Sherlock Holmes, the famed detective, investigate the legend of a supernatural hound on the fog-shrouded moorland in England of the 19th century. Immerse yourself into the dangerous world of diaboli
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* Fixed bug where you could walk through the main gate in the City Hub, before Judy is there * Fixed bug where you could walk through a section of the hedge in the second room of Breakin * Fixed exploit in safe where you could push and interact at the same time to walk onto the s
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Revelations 2012 is Now Available on Steam and 20% off*! Armageddon. Apocalypse. The end of days. Mayan prophecy foretells the beginning of a new world age on December 21, 2012 when the road to the stars will descend from the sky and civilization as we know it will come to a tumu
Read articleThe song (a cover of Jonathan Coulton's now-infamous "Still Alive") is well done, too. Don't turn it off after the first few squeaky seconds. It gets better. I swear. Bonus points if you spot the Duck Hunt dog. And the Skyrim giant. Professor Shyguy - Still Alive (Portal Cover)
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Lone Survivor is Now Available on Steam and 20% off until Friday, April 27th 10AM PST. In this psychological survival adventure, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary. Starving and exhausted, he has begun to question how much of
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This is not, as we said, the PS3 debut of Bejeweled 3, as it hit retail last year in a collection. It may be late to the party, but Bejeweled 3 is finally hitting the PS3. The match-3 gem-swapping game will be available to download on the PlayStation Network tomorrow. The PS3 ver
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If you’re a member of the camp of gamers who believe that the answers to puzzles should never be signposted, and that modern games are way too easy, then you’re going to like 1000 Amps. You play as a cute lil’ icon called Plug (no relation to the Bash Street Kid) who is attemptin
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Gabe Newell been talking about the Valve sequel everyone wants, Half Life 2: Episode 3, in terms of the Valve sequel no-one wants, Ricochet 2. With almost audible air quotes around each mention of a possible follow up to Valve's year 2000 disk-lobbing multiplayer arena title, New
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Noitu Love 2 Devolution is Now Available on Steam and 20% off until 10 AM PST on Monday, April 30th. A century after the legendary boy Noitu Love saved the world from the evil Darns, they rise again, but in a chaos of time-bending mayhem! Now it's up to the new hero of the Peacek
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Oh, the terrible weight of expectation. How can I possibly live up to or surpass the gimmick in my last Legend of Grimrock post? Well, unless I somehow created an HTML maze that you had to solve in order to find the details about the new Grimrock patch now being out and containin
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The appearance of Valve’s Gabe Newell on the inaugral Seven Day Cooldown podcast seems to have generated all the headlines in the world. Apple’s new boss didn’t really visit Valve, DOTA2 will use a brand new kind of free-to-play and, now, why ‘Ricochet 2′ has been so long coming.
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Now, PC gamers, you might be mad that you'll have to wait a few weeks after the console release to get Max Payne 3 on your screens. But, as is often the case, Rockstar's noir threequel finds its most beauteous iteration on the personal computing platform. Look at those crow's-fee
Read articleThere must be something about the number three that signals that Rockstar Games is done messing around and is about to get serious. Grand Theft Auto III ? That 2001 masterwork let the world know that Rockstar was ready to take over single-player video gaming. Eleven years later c
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