Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Like I mentioned yesterday, I felt like I was in a rut for a little while with my Borderlands 2 arsenal. But suddenly, upon starting the first, pirate-themed DLC, I wound up with an embarrassment of great weaponry. When it rains, it pours (bullets). Among the guns I got was a uni
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Valve have sat down with Area 51's Semphis and a video camera to talk through some pro strategies for improving your odds in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Semphis offers detailed advice about how to fire the AK-47 at different ranges, and shows some of his favourite grenade a
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Doom 3 BFG edition is out this week, which makes it the perfect week for a Doom 3 BFG launch trailer. The repackaged, updated version of Doom 3 comes with 3D vision support and a new seven-level segment called The Lost Mission. The Resurrection of Evil expansion pack is included,
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This fall, we've been getting the best sort of déja vu . From Dishonored to XCOM , many of the best games of the fall have learned from past classics and reworked them into smart, satisfying, fresh-feeling games. Is this new appreciation for 90's classics a trend, or an anomaly?
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Hey, remember when PopCap announced it was working on a sequel to Plants vs. Zombies? Well, it looks like it may be called Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare. Fusible has discovered a bunch of new domain registrations attributed to PopCap including gardenwarfare.net, pvzgardenwar
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Alientrap, they behind the absolutely superb Capsized , have released a trailer for their new game – Apotheon . Sit up and take notice, because if you didn’t play Capsized, you missed out on one of the best PC platformers in ages. Apotheon is calling itself a 2D Action RPG. (more
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I've always felt strangely about Doom 3 . On the one hand, it was a fairly revolutionary game, graphically. The lighting was striking. On the other hand, it looked kind of gross: humans in the game were starkly lit with strange, bump-mapped faces and odd, robotic movements. But i
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Of all the user-made interpretations of Half-Life's doomed resonance cascade in the Black Mesa facility, the version fashioned by Minecraft modder "Xannot" might very well include the first Swiss-cheese-lined test chamber. Really, Xannot's Minecraft-ed Black Mesa appears quite fa
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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM) Fixed the "disconnect" command re
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When you introduce a video game to an older relative who doesn't play them—a parent or a grandparent—and they realize they've underestimated how detailed, how immersive these things really are, the conversations you have after that really are special . If this hasn't happened for
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-Fixed a crash when loading into levels on certain integrated or mobile graphic cards which have restrictions on non power of two sized textures. -Fixed a crash with mouseover FX on objects when in Focus mode. -Improved error handling of startup failures. -Updated DirectX install
Read articleX marks the spot. I'm playing Borderlands 2 's effortfully-titled new DLC Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty for a lot of reasons, I guess. I'm playing it for the colorful new locations, for the goofy new pirate enemies, for the sweet new sand skiff (though boo on Gearbox fo
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Come ask Music/Sfx or Dev/Tech questions on reddit, our final AMA (ask me anything) starts now! :)
Read articleCome ask Music/Sfx or Dev/Tech questions on reddit, our final AMA (ask me anything) starts now! :)
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Zombie Driver HD is Now Available on Steam! Save 50% off if you owned the original Zombie Driver! Zombie Driver HD has many updates and new features including 8 hours of new Story Mode, 3 new enemy types, 5 new vehicles, improved performance, graphics and more! Plus, the Official
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Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign is Now Available on Steam and 25% off!* Unity of Command is an innovative and refreshing operational-level wargame that covers the entire 1942/43 Stalingrad Campaign on the Eastern Front. Playable from both the Axis and Soviet perspective, it
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Borderlands 2 Update 1.1.2 – Prevents data instability when launched with unsupported commands.
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A pirate throwing moneybombs to distract peasants makes sense, but why is the Carpenter carrying a huge hammer? Has he stolen it from a blacksmith? Why is nobody stopping him from bludgeoning others' brains out in broad daylight? Assassin's Creed 3's multiplayer mode will be a vi
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Fairy Bloom Freesia is Now Available on Steam. Once upon a time, in a forest called Lita, there lived a fairy whose role it was to protect the trees of the forest from the monsters and humans who would try to steal the spirit stones that provide the forest’s life energy. Her name
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