Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Act now and save 75% on the Warhammer 40,000 Franchise during the Weekend Deal! Check out the award winning Warhammer franchise from the original front-line battlefield RTS of Dawn of War through the Space Marine mission to hold the Imperial Forge from the Orks. Each faction has
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Today's Deal: Save 40% off Analogue: A Hate Story ! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
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Good morning from San Francisco (and the zombie apocalypse). I'll be livestreaming Day Z with its creator this morning for a few hours, starting at 9 AM PST / 4 PM GMT. Click here to watch along.
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Radical Entertainment, the twenty-year-old game studio behind games like Prototype and Scarface , has shut its doors. Audio designer Rob Bridgett, formerly of the Vancouver-based studio, confirmed the news on Twitter today . Update: When reached for comment, Radical parent compan
Read articleRadical Entertainment, the twenty-year-old game studio behind games like Prototype and Scarface , has shut its doors. Audio designer Rob Bridgett, formerly of the Vancouver-based studio, confirmed the news on Twitter today . In addition to the Prototype series, Radical also worke
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SEGA have just announced that many of their European offices are about to close. New distribution partners have been announced across France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The veteran developer/publisher are "realigning" their strategy and c
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Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is now Ghost Recon: Present Soldier. Except in the UK, where's he's Ghost Recon: Coming Out Tomorrow, Honestly Guv Soldier. Yes the high tech manshooter has finally arrived on PC, after the customary last minute Ubisoft delay. He's brought along his go
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Square Enix and art group iam8bit have gone and done a thing . They've paid for a TV show based on first-person puzzler Quantum Conundrum , and it's going to be hosted by Kevin Pereira. It's called The Super Dimensional Quantum Learning's Problems and Solutions Gametime Spectacul
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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) Added ConVars sv_rcon_maxpacketsi
Read articleWhen you're conducting an interview, it's important that the venue be comfortable. You don't want your interview subject bothered by commotion, bad lighting, gunfire, or shambling, predatory corpses. Thursday morning I'll be playing Day Z with its creator and a few members of the
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And yet it is. This video by Michael Shanks (the same man behind that great Box-Art Brawl video from last week) depicts the high's and lows, mostly lows, of Mr. Max Payne's day-to-day life. Yes, it's a joke that's been done before. Perhaps too many times. And yet the execution he
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version 1.013 ============= 1) Dog Tags and Supply Drops now come with explanatory tooltips. 2) Deployment icons now have extra tooltip data to explain supply trucks and current stock levels. 3) Removed redundant and confusing restock-timers for supply truck icons. 4) Battle mini
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The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by us here at Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used in the movie, and vice versa. By utilizing the hardw
Read article<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"> The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by us here at Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used i
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Today's Deal: Save 66% off Avernum: Escape From the Pit ! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
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Spec Ops ‘ handsomely bearded writing lead, Walt Williams, talks about the personalities that make up Spec Ops: The Line’s team – both player and non-player characters – in a new development diary installment, which you can see below. Williams claims that the moral choices in the
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Warning: The video above is more than a year old. But I only saw it for the first time last week when Valve's Yasser Malaika and Leslie Reed used it in a presentation about Steam for Schools . I don't think Kotaku has ever posted this incredible interpretative Portal dance number
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My friends! Gather 'round the fire and prepare to hear an epic tale that spans the entirety of human history! I'm in the middle of chronicling the progress of my Celtic civilization in Civ V's new Gods & Kings expansion, with a new entry every Wednesday. In Part 1, I led my A
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Tribes: Ascend is Now Available on Steam! Tribes: Ascend is the world’s fastest shooter - a high-adrenaline, online multiplayer FPS with jetpacks, skiing, vehicles, and multiple classes. The classic shooter franchise Tribes has been played by well over 1 million people. With Trib
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JP LeBreton was the main designer on the planty bit of BioShock: Arcadia. He recently joined his friends from the Idle Thumbs podcast to play through some early sections of BioShock, including his own, and talk about how they were built and why. You can watch the whole thing on t
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