Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
The end of this year is going to be an orgy of exciting sequels: The Elder Scrolls 5, Mass Effect 3, and the tenth Battlefield game, Battlefield 3. It's a sequel to the third Battlefield game, Battlefield 2, which was the 1,940th prequel to the original, Battlefield 1942. It all
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The PlayStation Store has been refreshed but will be taken down for maintenance at 4.05pm UK time today. It won't be up and running again until 3am tomorrow morning. Nevertheless, those fast enough have access to a single-player MotorStorm Apocalypse demo. Eurogamer's MotorStorm
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Microsoft's Games for Windows Live service has the power to make grown men cry. Tears of blood. It seems that even Microsoft know it. Well, kind of. Senior producer of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, Kevin Unangst, has been speaking to CVG about the service's “roc
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The Wizard's Survival Kit , new content for Magicka, is now available on Steam! The Wizard's Survival Kit grants you a hat, two new weapons and the Meteor Shower Magick to decimate your foes! Additionally, a four-pack for Magicka has just been released. Get one copy for yourself
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Aw, bless. I share the below video not because it gives much away in terms of when and if we’ll see Counter-Strike 2 (though it’s certainly not a denial, which is some kind of good news at least), but because of the charming awkwardness of Gabe Newell’s reaction when asked direct
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Act now and take advantage of huge savings! Mafia II is available at 75% off during the Midweek Madness sale. Offer ends Thursday at 4pm PST. Quickly escalate up the family ladder with crimes of reward, status and consequence… the life as a wise guy isn’t quite as untouchable as
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Despite the advances of the past decade, from physics engines and motion control to near photo-realistic graphics, there is one area in which games still have huge scope for improvement. Why, after all this time, are so many videogames still so bad at telling stories? True, there
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A sequel to 2006's Silent Hill movie started shooting in Toronto today, producer Davis Films has announced. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D will star X-Men Origins: Wolverine alumnus Adelaide Clemens as lead Heather Mason, alongside Kit Harington, who you'll soon see in HBO's adaptati
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The whimsical indie platformer game, Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time is now available at a new low price. Doc Clock also features SteamPlay - buy once, play on either PC or Mac OSX!
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Updates to Cities in Motion have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Bug Fixes Crash while saving game on certain configurations. Random crash when using tree brush in map editor. Tram line canno
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Oh, this is hot stuff! Couldn’t be hotter. Kieron sends words that Steam is now selling noteworthy Dreamcast titles Crazy Taxi , Sonic Adventure DX , Sega Bass Fishing and (here we go!) the inestimable, irrepressible Space Channel 5: Part 2 for £5.99 each, or £19.99 for the lot .
Read articleUPDATE: We've contacted the winners of the Collector's Edition and sent out the eight Steam codes, so go check your inbox! Thanks to everyone who entered! The Imperial Guard needs you! Jump into the front lines of the six-way war for survival by winning one of our Warhammer 40K:
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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, 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 (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM) Fix
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Murlocs in Space! Or perhaps not. Bungie announcing that their next game will be an MMO doesn't come as a surprise, but it'll be interesting to see if they will become as iconic in the MMO space as they have been within the FPS circles. The other huge story of the day, of course,
Read articleSEGA's Dreamcast Collection is now available on Steam. Experience four of SEGA’s classic hits from the Dreamcast era in this must-have collection. Speed through uncharted territories in Sonic Adventure DX™ , zip around town in Crazy Taxi™ , fend off menacing invaders in Space Cha
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One of our favorite Renaissance men of the video game/music crossover world is Jamez Gillman aka hamst3r of the Hamst3r Alliance and he's back on Radio this week with some nasty, grimy, gritty dubstep and funky electro. "Neurotransmitter Decay" felt to me like I actually was surf
Read articleOne of our favorite Renaissance men of the video game/music crossover world is Jamez Gillman aka hamst3r of the Hamst3r Alliance and he's back on Radio this week with some nasty, grimy, gritty dubstep and funky electro. "Neurotransmitter Decay" felt to me like I actually was surf
Read articleHomefront PC's online component is being developed by Digital Extremes, the creators of Unreal and Unreal Tournament. Their job is to add PC specific features to Homefront, including clan support, vehicle cockpits, stat tracking and dedicated servers. Read on to find out what you
Read articleDICE general manager, Karl Magnus Troedsson has been talking about DICE's focus on the PC version of Battlefield 3, saying that he feels DICE neglected the PC while they were building the first Frostbite Engine and making Battlefield: Bad Company. He also confirms that the PC wil
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“MONEY. DRUGS. AND GUNS,” quoth the new trailer for Call of Juarez’s upcoming modern-day sequel , which is an interesting coincidence as that’s my life motto. Why, only last night I had a bit too much tea and stayed up shooting men in Dawn of War: Retribution until 2am! Ah, this
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