Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Kotaku 's Kirk Hamilton (a.k.a. me) made an appearance yesterday on the Revision3 TV show "New Challenger," to chat with host Anthony Carboni about Saints Row: The Third . Give it a watch!
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This YouTube video, comically titled "Misadventures of Eyes and Hair" shows us an Assassin's Creed: Revelations cutscene featuring translucent bodies with floating eyes and hair. Be sure to have your sound on, because the dialogue makes it much more entertaining. "Look at me now!
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Ah, so maybe we do have CS:GO beta keys after all… We’d probably better get on with playing that. (Also Tribes: Ascend, which we haven’t quite caught up with yet either.) Anyway! I am sure a few of you are already saving up for Desert Eagles, while the rest of the internet will h
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What happens when one of the world's best tower defense games meets one of gaming's most beloved power-mad robotic villains? Fans line up to pay $4.99 or 400 Microsoft points for the Defense Grid: You Monster expansion, that's what. Coming December 7 to Xbox Live Arcade and Steam
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It's just a man in a T-shirt of course, but there's a Half-Life 3 logo on the front of it and a Valve employee inside it. Art director and executive producer at UberEnt (the team behind Super Monday Night Combat) posted the photo above on Twitter with the message "All I'm saying
Read articleDefense Grid: The Awakening is getting its first story expansion next week, December 7. Titled "Defense Grid: You Monster," the downloadable content will feature GLaDOS from the Portal series. It will cost $4.99 on Steam or 400 MSP on Xbox 360, and requires the original game to p
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A new patch will release tomorrow with a focus on game play related changes and will introduce the following new feature: The new control panel in free build will allow players to summon invasions of varying sizes and frequency, as well as adjust the prevailing events and difficu
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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: - Fixes crash on startup
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Brink’s forthcoming clans and tournaments update is being celebrated by a free weekend on Steam, says Bethesda blog . The game is going to be free to play all weekend, this weekend. If you play for free this weekend you will also be able to purchase the game permanently for 75% o
Read articleThe parkour driven multiplayer shooter, Brink will be free to play through Steam this weekend to celebrate the addition of Clan and Tournament support. That'll let you create and keep track of clans on the Brink site. From there you'll be able to challenge other clans and battle
Read articleDespite its grotesquely high bodycount and the horrible and humiliating ways in which it rises, the utter absurdity of Saints Row: The Third makes it one of the silliest games of this or any other year . In celebration of the ludicrous actions that the inhabitants of Steelport ar
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r18221b ------ *** This update hasn't been tested extensively on old save games. *** Critical Fixes: + Improved turn times, especially for games with a large number of systems or players. + Fixed an issue in combat that was preventing players or AI from issuing waypoints for ship
Read articleThe innocent bystander you just murdered with a giant dildo in Saints Row: The Third isn't alone. He shares a special circle of gaming hell occupied by 1,999,999 other victims who suffered the same terrible fate. That's just one of the stats turned up by a new post on the Saints
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Battlefield 3 couldn't do it and neither could Skyrim it seems, Call of Duty , two Call of Duty games actually, remain the most played games on Xbox Live for the week of Nov. 21. Yes, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim isn't even an online game, but Major Nelson's weekly list counts all
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Are you on it? Have you shot many men? Does it still feel like Counter-Strike? The starting gun has gone off, head-shotting a terrorist twenty metres away and signalling the launch of the Global Offensive closed beta. COUNTER-TERRORISTS WIN. There's a video of the closed beta abo
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As you can't have a proper samurai showdown without absurd arterial spray and dismemberment, The Creative Assembly has released a new Total War: Shogun 2 downloadable content pack which amps up the bloodletting to the requisite level. If you'd rather be a sneaky ninja, though, th
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The Bard's Tale , the highly enjoyable action role-playing game that launches today at the App Store, has a long, storied history—far longer and storied-er than your average iOS game. The first Bard's Tale was a well-loved 1985 computer role-playing game , whose protagonist was,
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Danish Hitman developer IO Interactive will work on new IP following the completion of Hitman Absolution. That's what studio head Niels Sorensen is reported to have told Gamasutra . There was, however, no mention of what this new IP will be. Sorensen explained that after Hitman A
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Square Enix's first two Street Fighter IV figures, based on series "heroes" Ryu and Chun-Li, have just hit shelves. Part of the company's Play Arts line, they're big, they're detailed and they're a little on the expensive side. But are they any good ? They're certainly heavy, tha
Read articleThe beta for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive went live yesterday . Know what that means? Yup! People filming themselves playing it then uploading it to the internet so we can all see. The footage is from the tweaked update to classic map "Dust". It's... Counter-Strike all right!
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