Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Funny thing. Whenever I try to write about X-COM, as in X-COM the game, not X-COM the place in my heart , I stall. It’s too big. I need to do it at the right time (or perhaps for the right paycheque, I suspect). Where to start? Where to end? There have been superb summaries , mak
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward continues its slow crumble today with the departure of two more key team members, sources close to the studio tell Kotaku. Longtime Infinity Ward employees Mark Grigsby and Paul Messerly have both left the studio, the team's
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Featuring Steam Leaderboards and Achievements, Fortix is a a new type of strategy and arcade game. Can you emerge victorious and reclaim the land of your ancestors? You are knight Fortix, the sole hope for the desolate and tortured land of Fortiana to become the fertile land that
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat developer GSC Game World has released a new official multiplayer map for its PC shooter, available in a 5MB download from FileShack . Titled 'Close Combat,' the map is set around the Jupiter factory location and is apparently "designed for dynamic
Read articleOof, tough day . I totally get why people are upset, but once again it’s worth waiting for a few more details before you decide the new XCOM is the end of all that is sacred. Maybe it will be, maybe it won’t, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a little honest hope. Today d
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Yesterday 2K Games panicked some gamers with news that the turn-based tactics series X-Com will return as a first-person shooter. What other classic video game franchise have had their genres changed, and how did they weather the transformation? We're calling the phenomenon genre
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Apparently a lot of you are sick of playing video games set in the city in which I live. Last week, from the comfort of my desk at the Gawker Media offices in New York City, I reported about an event I attended in the TriBeCa neighborhood of New York City about a new video game t
Read articleYeah, you heard me. X-COM, the game to end all games, is finally getting its long-rumoured remake/sequel. Wahoo, basically. Yes, it is indeed a first-person shooter – it is extraordinarily sad to wave away X-COM’s traditional genre, but c’mon, did you really think a AAA title in
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Whether it's Doom or Super Mario Bros., video game movies have a bad rep. It's a mostly deserved rep. But Hollywood super producer Jerry Bruckheimer (The Rock, Pirates of the Carribean) doesn't think it's so cut and dried. "It depends on who's involved with it and the approach th
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Patch 1.1 Live so if you haven't restarted steam in a while I recomend that you do so you get the latest patch!
Read articlePatch 1.1 Live so if you haven't restarted steam in a while I recomend that you do so you get the latest patch!
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Updates to Grand Theft Auto IV have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Rockstar Games Social Club Remove Rockstar Games Social Club application Separate RGSC application no longer required to la
Read articleRoboCop director Paul Verhoeven is having a go at the video game movie business, working on an "Indiana Jones-ish" but also "Hitchcockian" video game set in the year 1914. Could it be anything other than Jordan Mechner's The Last Express? The MTV Movies blog first broke the news
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Text message from Plants Vs. Zombies lead designer George Fan to the iPhone of PvZ studio co-founder John Vechey, asked and answered at our request — because we care about video game zombies ... and PvZ .
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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City includes both The Lost and Damned, and The Ballad of Gay Tony together and does not require the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play. Now Available in North America and Brazil. Coming to the rest of world on April 16th.
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Updates to Madballs in... Babo:Invasion have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Madballs in... Babo:Invasion *Really* fixed launching game from the steam server browser
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Long-forgotten rocket-powered armored opossum Sparkster will be blasting back onto the scene in May, publisher Konami has announced with a new trailer and screenshots . The revival--developed by Climax and coming to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as a digital download--postulates
Read articleThe patch we had planned for tonight need to be postponed as we need to test it more before it goes live. We apologize for the delay. /Fatshark Team
Read articleThe patch we had planned for tonight need to be postponed as we need to test it more before it goes live. We apologize for the delay. /Fatshark Team
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and stars Jake "Chesty" Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton discuss the story behind Price of Persia: The Sands of Time, Disney's big-budget film based on the long-running gaming franchise. Could this be the best video game to film adaptation of all time? All
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