Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Media reportage still has it that Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want experiment a couple of years back was somehow a disaster. Independent gaming has roundly proved the lie: more devs than we can keep up with have offered PWYW deals recently, so clearly something’s going right. It’s g
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Updates to Aliens vs Predator have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Client Fix for a Skybox rendering problem in D3D11 build on Nvidia Fermi cards Various small D3D11 optimisations Fixed rare bug where clients would get
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Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Garry's Mod Added new spawnicons Added support for spawning TF2 Spy with masks Added 'proper' thirdperson animations Added sv_max_u
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An enhanced edition of buccaneer lifestyle simulator Sid Meier's Pirates! is headed to the Wii, publisher Take-Two Interactive and subsidiary 2K Games announced today. Sid Meier's Pirates! on PC (2004) Based off Firaxis' 2004 revamp of Pirates!--the game originally debuted in 198
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How much would you pay for a copy of World of Goo, Gish and three additional games that don't prominently feature black blobs dripping with indie cred? Thanks to the Humble Indie Bundle you pay exactly "whatever." Wolfire is offering a five game bundle that includes Aquaria, Penu
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In a heartfelt letter on his blog, Clint Hocking, the main man behind Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Far Cry 2, explained yesterday why he's leaving the studio he's worked at for a decade, Ubisoft Montreal. The full letter to fans and peers is a must-read, but if you're short on
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The complete first season of Telltale's episodic adventure game Tales of Monkey Island is on offer now in a $19.95 discount double-pack with LucasArts' own 'Special Edition' revamp of its game that began it all, 1990's The Secret of Monkey Island. Two of the many faces of Guybrus
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Click image to view the Pistol , one of the new weapons in the upcoming Firepower content pack. The Pistol is a sidearm and is always available regardless of which primary weapon you choose.
Read articleNintendo can't seem to escape the reach of piracy, especially now that one of game industry legend and this week's Kotaku Talk Radio guest Sid Meier's most beloved games is making its way to the Wii this fall. Sid Meier's Pirates! first hit the stormy seas of PC gaming back in 19
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Jack Friedman, the founder of publisher THQ - the guys behind UFC, Dawn of War & Company Of Heroes - passed away yesterday at the age of 70. Friedman had been involved in the game business for decades, first by forming toy company (and later video game publisher) LJN in 1970,
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Updates to Booster Trooper have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Booster Trooper Fixed: Tripple Kill Achievement Fixed: Light and Dark Trooper Achievement Fixed: Duster Achievement Beacon stre
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In anticipation of RayStorm HD and Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition hitting the Xbox 360 as Xbox Live Arcade downloads this Wednesday, May 5, marketplace operator Microsoft has confirmed that both games will be priced at 1200 Microsoft Points / $15 each. RayStorm HD and Zeno Clash: U
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Positech’s popular hands-off build-and-release strategy game Gratuitous Space Battles have just released an expansion pack. How does it expandier the game’s expansosity? Well, for six dollars you get a whole new race, 2 scenarios and a cent. The aliens in question are the swarm w
Read articleReady the Microsoft Points, Xbox 360 owner, for this week's Xbox Live Arcade update promises to be a big one, with first-person brawler Zeno Clash and top-down shoot 'em up Raystorm HD arriving this Wednesday. ACE Team's quirky Zeno Clash gets its "Ultimate Edition" after a brief
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Jay Pavlina recently released a sensation of a video game , a remix called Super Mario Bros. Crossover that allows gamers to play Super Mario Bros. as the heroes of Mega Man, Metroid and Castlevania. Other legends almost made it in. From a GameXplain interview with Pavlina about
Read articleClick image to view the Moon Mining Pick , one of the new weapons in the upcoming Firepower content pack. The Moon Mining Pick is a melee weapon and is always available regardless of which primary weapon you choose. You can see it in action very briefly in the Firepower trailer a
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The upcoming Call of Duty title , Call of Duty: Black Ops, was developed by Santa Monica-based studio Treyarch. The studio did not create Call of Duty. Has it done anything for the franchise? Back in 2003, the Call of Duty franchise was developed and created by Infinity Ward for
Read articleClick image to view the Grenade Pistol , one of the new weapons in the upcoming Firepower content pack. The Grenade Pistol is a sidearm and is always available regardless of which primary weapon you choose. It allows you to carry six grenades, which can be fired in any combinatio
Read articleClick image to view the SMG , one of the new weapons in the upcoming Firepower content pack. The SMG is another weapon, like the shotgun, that lets you move quickly. The advanced electronics mentioned in the text means that the weapon links to your suit, triggering the thrusters
Read articleUpdates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Garry's Mod Fixed startup crash when no SSE2 support Fixed TF2 map crash
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