Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
The closure of Project Gotham Racing and Blur developer Bizarre Creations was a cruel blow for fans of things what drive fast. If that wound has healed now, here, jab at the scar by watching prototype footage of a new engine and new racer Bizarre was working on when Activision sh
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Another small update out today, version 1.671 - Axis assignments are automatically inverted internally to ensure it is intuitive. - Recovery Achievement is no longer awarded for watching a recovery replay. - Music volume is restored correctly on the start screen when restarting t
Read articleAnother small update out today, version 1.671 - Axis assignments are automatically inverted internally to ensure it is intuitive. - Recovery Achievement is no longer awarded for watching a recovery replay. - Music volume is restored correctly on the start screen when restarting t
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Sol Yurick, the writer whose 1965 novel "The Warriors" was adapted into a film 14 years later—which then became one of the best adapted works ever in video gaming—died this weekend. He was 88. Yurick's work itself was a loose adaptation of a story told 2,300 years before: Anabasi
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When Pacific Rim 's latest trailer (above) went out last month, a lot of people thought, "Wait! I know that voice!" And indeed, it sounds like Jax Teller reading from "The Life and Death of Sam Crow" as an enormous sea monster destroys a bridge. Oh yeah, GLaDOS from the Portal se
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What other stories should Telltale turn into games? The adventure veterans at Telltale Games are keeping themselves busy fashioning the second season of The Walking Dead (which earned our Best Writing of 2012 award), but they're making it clear that they want to develop a narrati
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Prophet's William Tell LARPing session takes a turn for the interesting. After the glossy trilogy's completion, Crytek could explore other genres for the Crysis franchise. Speaking to Dusty Cartridge, Crytek Producer Michael Read said he believed the don't-call-it-Crysis-4 sequel
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Reworks That Matter is a free remix album of Blocks That Matter's original soundtrack. You can listen to its 9 amazing tracks on bandcamp.com , download it and share it with your friends. The whole album has been made possible thanks to the talent and time of: - Disasterpeace (Fe
Read articleReworks That Matter is a free remix album of Blocks That Matter's original soundtrack. You can listen to its 9 amazing tracks on bandcamp.com , download it and share it with your friends. The whole album has been made possible thanks to the talent and time of: - Disasterpeace (Fe
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Slave of God is a new, free game from Stephen Lavelle, aka Increpare, he of English Country Tune. It is a game about visiting a nightlcub, with all the attendant music, magic and horror. Young Cara paid it a visit. (more…)
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I visited Creative Assembly late last year for a look around their brand new motion capture studio. While I was there I spoke to CA mocap manager Pete Clapperton about what it took for the Total War developer to set up their own facility and the way it fits into the development o
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Oh, how we try to fix Far Cry 3. Despite noble intentions , everything about the actual story and writing is terrible and shallow. Kirk had an idea about how to fix it: make it so that Jason Brody turns out to be Vaas ! But maybe that idea ain't crazy enough. We need even more in
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Last time : One man. One farm. NO HOPE. This time: A demon payphone. An immortal lawn. Tractors that love too much. (more…)
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Last year was supposed to be the year I got a beast of a PC set up in my tiny apartment. It didn't end up being that year. 2013 will be, though, PC gods willing. So even though I missed out on games that looked right up my alley—like Hotline Miami or Natural Selection 2 (which I'
Read articleHAPPY NEW YEAR 2013! And thank you all for your participation in this huge christmas raffle! 45 games, 542 valid entrants, it means you have some chance to win. Let's see who are the winners: press the button of random! Aaand it's done! (see the list below) Winners will receive t
Read articleHAPPY NEW YEAR 2013! And thank you all for your participation in this huge christmas raffle! 45 games, 542 valid entrants, it means you have some chance to win. Let's see who are the winners: press the button of random! Aaand it's done! (see the list below) Winners will receive t
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Terry Cavanagh, the man behind the indie hits VVVVVV and Super Hexagon (and, as such, the man whose name I've cursed thousands of times) has announced he's no longer to develop Nexus City, or its spin-off game Selma's Story. Nexus City was to be an RPG collaboration between Cavan
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Last month THQ declared bankruptcy and announced plans to sell to the equity firm Clearlake Capital. It was a troubling development for the struggling publisher, but if the sale goes as planned, it will mean they could potentially continue to operate, without the need for staff c
Read articleEarlier today, our own Luke Plunkett nominated Crusader Kings II for Kotaku 2012 game of the year, writing that it's "the only game on this list that's about sex and politics." Sounds like a man who hasn't played Super Hexagon , right? Or. Actually. No. Super Hexagon ( iOS , Stea
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To kick off the New Year the Ace of Spades team wanted to run a forum based Q&A session giving you the chance to ask us anything about the game and get it answered by our production team. Feel free to be as creative and imaginative with your questions as possible? To get your
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