Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
A week back Jim was kind enough to tell us Wot He Thought of Dead Space 2 . Compelled by a lack of anything else to do this weekend, John played it too. And when two minds of the RPS hive share content, they must examine. Thus, we Verdict. Below is Jim and John’s discussion of th
Read articleA patch will soon be arriving for Dead Space 2 to make it more accessible to disabled players. It’s perhaps not something most of us think about, but for a number of players it’s essential that they be able to freely map controls if they’re going to be able to play. And Dead Spac
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This one's for the community! Live now: We've built a user-made map sharing site for our more enthusiastic followers to submit and share their favorite homebrewed maps. If you've got a map you'd like to share, or if you want to expand your repertoire of playable levels, visit our
Read articleThis one's for the community! Live now: We've built a user-made map sharing site for our more enthusiastic followers to submit and share their favorite homebrewed maps. If you've got a map you'd like to share, or if you want to expand your repertoire of playable levels, visit our
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Ubisoft have just confirmed another Call Of Juarez (the cowboy FPS series from Techland) game, this time called The Cartel . Here’s what they say about it: “Call of Juarez The Cartel is set in present-day and brings the best elements of the Wild West to a new and modern setting.
Read articleA disabled gamer has explained that he's unable to play Dead Space 2 thanks to a lack of button mapping features in the game. Gareth Garratt has cerebral palsy, and uses his head to control a mouse or controller when playing games. The inability to map any movement controls to hi
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I was never really disturbed by the actual Child’s Play movies, because they were rubbish, but for some reason this being the first link in my inbox this morning – informing me that someone has created a Chucky mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – left me feeling a bit queasy.
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A brave Russian mod team has challenged themselves to port the whole of GSC's survival horror, STALKER, into Crysis' more advanced engine. The project's called Cryzone - Sector 23, and is far along enough for the team to have released a video of the mod in action. You'll find the
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Some games wear their inspirations on their sleeves. Dungeons wears a Dungeon Keeper T-shirt, drives a red and black car with a ‘I heart Dungeon Keeper’ sticker on it, and visits a plastic surgeon every Tuesday to ask if he’s ready to give it that Horned Reaper look it so badly w
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There are eight different characters in Counter-Strike: Source, four Terrorists and four Counter-Terrorists. The trouble is that there are millions of Counter-Strike players, which makes standing out difficult. Luckily, fans have been creating new player skins since the game's re
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Garry's Mod is powerful, but not this powerful. That's where "Photoshop" comes in. But this brilliant Minecraft/Half-Life 2 mashup uses both to tell a charming story. Before you go asking OMG, where's the texture pack, here's the scoop. Artist Robbaz recorded the opening in Minec
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Evan, Josh, Dan, intern Lucas, and special guest Mikail Yazbeck get comfortable with the microphones in the never before used podcast room and chat PC Gaming. Topics include: Are free to play RTS games too imba to be worthwhile? Company of Heroes Online's shutdown might provide s
Read articleElectronic Arts' Dead Space 2 marketing campaign is in the sights of a parents advocacy group. Well, actually, it is, since a "parent advocacy group" is calling out the campaign for the same reason I think it's stupid: it completely overshoots (and in many ways insults) its targe
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New Features • Added Retro Pro Gear Skin • Added Preseason Hero Pro Gear Armor and Protag for players that bought the game during BETA • added Minimum Number of Players to Start option, set to 1 by default • First version of Standalone Dedicated Server Files with HLDS integration
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Reader Jorge R. says he gave his girlfriend his PC gamepad and a copy of Street Fighter IV. After a week, here's her new manicure.
Read articleDUNGEONS - Steam Special Edition is now available on Steam in Europe! Dungeons will become available in the rest of the world in the next week. Assume the role of a mighty Dungeon Lord and create your own diabolical dungeon. Lure Heroes into your labyrinthine with the promise of
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Holy mother of all things holy, I've never heard music as happy as the music we're featuring on Radio this week from Issey . "Manic" would be a better word to describe these tunes, and you can tell that from the traffic congestion: "Happy" starts out with a congestion of 385. Tha
Read articleHoly mother of all things holy, I've never heard music as happy as the music we're featuring on Radio this week from Issey . "Manic" would be a better word to describe these tunes, and you can tell that from the traffic congestion: "Happy" starts out with a congestion of 385. Tha
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Think you are excited about Sony's upcoming portable, the NGP? You're not alone. Game developers are apparently totally jazzed about it, too. And the NGP might not only change the way you play games, but the way video games are made. "NGP is a developer's dream," a developer spea
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This is Gareth. He's playing through the early stages of Fallout: New Vegas on the PC. Why are we watching him? Because he can play it without using his hands. Gareth, who through disability does not have the use of his hands, is able to customise a game's controls to the degree
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