Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Me! I saw XCOM ! Me! And I still can’t bloody talk about it . But I can direct you to buy, beg, borrow, steal or consume the latest issue of PC Gamer UK, which contains a big-ass feature wot I wrote about 2K Australia/Marin’s controversial do-over of The World’s Greatest Videogam
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2K Games and Valve today announced an agreement to power all PC versions of the highly anticipated Sid Meier's Civilization V with many of Steamworks' features and offer a special Digital Deluxe Edition via Steam. Customers who pre-order the regular or Digital Deluxe editions of
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RailWorks Glasgow Airport Rail Link Add-on is now available on Steam. The Glasgow Airport Rail Link (GARL) was a proposal to directly link Glasgow Central station with Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, United Kingdom. The link was intended for completion by 2013 and woul
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Updates to Defense Grid have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Added support for future DLC. Fixed performance problems related to ATI video cards.
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Tired of seeing only quick flashes of the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie? Here's 55 seconds' worth of Prince Jake running across rooftops, dodging arrows, and swinging from ropes for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of ComingSoon.Net. This certainly seems to be the sort
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The Firepower weapons pack which adds new weapons and grenades to Shattered Horizon has now been released on Steam. The game should update automatically. More info here:
Read articleUpdates to Shattered Horizon have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The update adds the Firepower weapons pack to the game. New content: Five primary weapons: Railgun, Machinegun, Assault Rifle, SMG and Shotgun Three sid
Read articleClick image to view the Assault Rifle , one of the new weapons in the upcoming Firepower content pack. You can expect the Firepower weapons pack to be released around 16:00 to 18:00 GMT today, May 5.
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The story propelling Lucasart's Force Unleashed is one of apprenticeship, Imperial cleavage, good and evil. It could have been about a Wookiee superhero, which would have been awesome , but no, George Lucas nixed that idea. In the latest issue of GamePro, developers Haden Blackma
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Konami's Rocket Knight reboot will be released on May 12 for the Xbox 360 and PC via Steam. On May 18, it will launch for the PlayStation 3. The title will cost $14.99 on the PC & PS3 and 1200 MS Points on the Xbox 360. New screenshots have been sent along to commemorate the
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Media reportage still has it that Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want experiment a couple of years back was somehow a disaster. Independent gaming has roundly proved the lie: more devs than we can keep up with have offered PWYW deals recently, so clearly something’s going right. It’s g
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Updates to Aliens vs Predator have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Client Fix for a Skybox rendering problem in D3D11 build on Nvidia Fermi cards Various small D3D11 optimisations Fixed rare bug where clients would get
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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: Garry's Mod Added new spawnicons Added support for spawning TF2 Spy with masks Added 'proper' thirdperson animations Added sv_max_u
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An enhanced edition of buccaneer lifestyle simulator Sid Meier's Pirates! is headed to the Wii, publisher Take-Two Interactive and subsidiary 2K Games announced today. Sid Meier's Pirates! on PC (2004) Based off Firaxis' 2004 revamp of Pirates!--the game originally debuted in 198
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How much would you pay for a copy of World of Goo, Gish and three additional games that don't prominently feature black blobs dripping with indie cred? Thanks to the Humble Indie Bundle you pay exactly "whatever." Wolfire is offering a five game bundle that includes Aquaria, Penu
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In a heartfelt letter on his blog, Clint Hocking, the main man behind Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Far Cry 2, explained yesterday why he's leaving the studio he's worked at for a decade, Ubisoft Montreal. The full letter to fans and peers is a must-read, but if you're short on
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The complete first season of Telltale's episodic adventure game Tales of Monkey Island is on offer now in a $19.95 discount double-pack with LucasArts' own 'Special Edition' revamp of its game that began it all, 1990's The Secret of Monkey Island. Two of the many faces of Guybrus
Read articleClick image to view the Pistol , one of the new weapons in the upcoming Firepower content pack. The Pistol is a sidearm and is always available regardless of which primary weapon you choose.
Read articleNintendo can't seem to escape the reach of piracy, especially now that one of game industry legend and this week's Kotaku Talk Radio guest Sid Meier's most beloved games is making its way to the Wii this fall. Sid Meier's Pirates! first hit the stormy seas of PC gaming back in 19
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Jack Friedman, the founder of publisher THQ - the guys behind UFC, Dawn of War & Company Of Heroes - passed away yesterday at the age of 70. Friedman had been involved in the game business for decades, first by forming toy company (and later video game publisher) LJN in 1970,
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