Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
The Humble Indie Bundle popularized the 'pay what you want' model for indie games. Now, new site Indie Royale is running with it. Every two weeks, Indie Royale will launch a 'pay what you want' bundle of four indie games, but with a minimum price that rises and falls depending on
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According to a report in Xbox World magazine, Just Cause developers Avalanche will next year release a third game in the hit swarthy harpoon simulator series. I know. You're probably as shocked as I am. A popular video game franchise getting a sequel! Unheard of. Just Cause is ju
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Renegade Ops is Now Available on Steam! Renegade Ops puts players in a mobile commando unit sent behind enemy lines to defeat Inferno, a madman intent on global domination. Players have the choice to fight alone in single player mode, team up offline with two-player split screen
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Global Ops: Commando Libya is now available on Steam and is 15% off until November 2nd at 10AM Pacific Time! In this third-person action shooter, track down a notorious Russian mafia boss intent on causing mass destruction. The destiny of the world is in your hands!
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Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: - Fixed a problem with recording POV demos that prevented them from being played back
Read articleThe indie scene is full of what a corporate sort might call Price-Costing Thought-Thinks. There’s an increasing trend wherein developers are offering early versions for sale to fund development, as well as offering ‘pay what you want’ initiatives and joining collections like The
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Updates to Orcs Must Die! have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: • Added a user.cfg option to limit your frame rate “forceFPS=X” where X is what you do not want it to run faster than (for examp
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Football Manager 2012 has been released, and like every year, the same questions are being asked: Why does a game that looks like Microsoft Excel sell so well? Why would you want to manage footballers when they could be playing them? Why do so many people play it for hours on end
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Gemini Rue is now available on Steam and is 15% off until November 2nd at 10AM Pacific Time! In this gripping sci-fi mystery featuring over 60 hand-drawn backgrounds, take control of the ex-assassin, Azriel, and the mysterious Delta-Six. As fate brings these two closer together,
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Space Marine has finally received its four player co-op survival mode, Exterminatus. An automatic Steam update should add the mode to the Online section of the Space Marine main menu, and will offer you and four friends two maps on which to trounce hordes and hordes of Orks. I ju
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Combine multiple projectors, an igloo-shaped screen within a special tent, a motion-tracking paintball gun, treadmills and a PC that can actually run Battlefield 3 and you’ve got The Gadget Show’s “Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator.” Placing the player in the midst of the military
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It's the one I have. Cosplay superstar and Kotaku favorite Omi Gibson does her best leap of Faith. Her cosplay does a fine job of portraying the Mirror's Edge heroine, and, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the first Western game cosplay she's done. Omi specializes i
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Today's Fine Art features two men who worked on RAGE , id's recently-released desert shooter. One helped design (and build) the game's cars. The other, the game's mutants. Both somehow found the time to draw pictures of pretty ladies as well. Which, given the amount of tiny short
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Lord of the Rings: War in the North is Now Available on Steam. The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is a co-op Action RPG that immerses you and your friends in a brutal new chapter in the War of the Ring. Snowblind Studios is in the unique position of drawing inspiration from
Read articleSpace Marine’s Exterminatus mode is Now Available! Exterminatus mode pits an elite squad of four Space Marines against hordes of alien enemies in a score based fight to the death. Players can choose the Tactical Marine, Devastator or Assault Marine as well as utilizing any weapon
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Treasures of the Sun , all-new content for Dungeon Siege III , is now available on Steam! Travel beyond the borders of Ehb to an all-new environment: the Aranoi Desert. On your search for a lost Legion hero, fight through hordes of new villains to find a forgotten abbey hiding a
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☓ o’¯|¯’ɪ Ç ........ ENG ........ Dear gamers! I welcome you to the official group: Xotic Those who wish are allowed to wear the official abbreviation of the game! Abbreviation xTc created /) L I E N K I Y . xTc * your nick Sincerely, /) L I E N K I Y. ........ РУС ........ Уважа
Read article☓ o’¯|¯’ɪ Ç ........ ENG ........ Dear gamers! I welcome you to the official group: Xotic Those who wish are allowed to wear the official abbreviation of the game! Abbreviation xTc created /) L I E N K I Y . xTc * your nick Sincerely, /) L I E N K I Y. ........ РУС ........ Уважа
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RUSE might be my favorite RTS of the past several years, and one reason for that is because developer Eugen Systems seemed to design it with wargamers in mind. It could be frantic, but it also felt a bit like what would happen if you turned Panzer General into an RTS. So it's fit
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