Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
The sounds of guns echoed throughout Al-Assad Library Book Exhibition in Damascus, Syria. The guns weren't tangible, but virtual. The conflict, however, was from real life. It was late 2000, and a crowd gathered around the television set that was running first-person-shooter Unde
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I can still remember my first schooling in the art of Quake. A young staff writer fresh out of university, I found myself working late one night, and the office Q3DM17 expert offered to give me a run-around and a few tips. Talk about school of hard knocks. He railed me from a mil
Read articleLast week Electronic Arts found out the hard way that video games' latest four letter word is actually seven letters long. News that the publisher's upcoming modern military first-person shooter was going to be set in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, based on real engagements that
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A Just Cause movie, which we got wind of a year ago , now has a screenwriter and another producing partner, signaling that we're a step closer to an action-movie video game adapted into a video game action movie. Michael Ross, whose credits include the 2006 horror flick "Turistas
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Less than three days before the contest comes to an end! The final piece of the Mystery Monday puzzle together with the Contest website will go online this Monday at 21.00 CET/ 3 PM EST . We added a clock counting down in the top right of the website. The website where you will b
Read articleLess than three days before the contest comes to an end! The final piece of the Mystery Monday puzzle together with the Contest website will go online this Monday at 21.00 CET/ 3 PM EST . We added a clock counting down in the top right of the website. The website where you will b
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My 30 second guide to gaining a WWII education through gaming: for insights into the airman’s war, choose Battle of Britain II or IL-2: 1946. For a taste of the tanker’s experience, your best bet is Steel Fury. Interested in the challenges that generals faced? Grab anything by Pa
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Richard Cobbett looks back at one of Lucasarts' worst ever games, and one of Indy's most unfortunate misadventures this side of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Shudder. Where to begin? Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a godawful mess of a game by anyone's standards. It's u
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To commemorate today's launch of Empire & Napoleon Total War™ GOTY Edition , DLCs for both Empire: Total War™ and Napoleon:™ Total War are available at 50% off now through October 7th, 2010. In addition, Empire: Total War™ and Napoleon: Total War Imperial Edition standalone p
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An update to Star Ruler has been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Version 1.0.1.4 Fixed a crash on save after manually obsoleting a hull. After updating, hulls ignored the Update Every X Levels set
Read articleMeet the writer behind almost all the Mystery Mondays. Martin was originally just going to test the game, but from one thing came another and before we knew it he wrote almost all the Mystery Mondays! Who are you and what do you do on "The Ball"? A living breathing wannabe indie
Read articleMeet the writer behind almost all the Mystery Mondays. Martin was originally just going to test the game, but from one thing came another and before we knew it he wrote almost all the Mystery Mondays! Who are you and what do you do on "The Ball"? A living breathing wannabe indie
Read articleThree more hints for Mystery Monday. For the 4th, 5th, and 6th Mystery Monday. Just days more to go before the end! Information on how to enter will be posted tomorrow! August 16 - 7 Letters August 23 - 10 Letters August 30 - 12 Letters We will not release hints for the last coup
Read articleThree more hints for Mystery Monday. For the 4th, 5th, and 6th Mystery Monday. Just days more to go before the end! Information on how to enter will be posted tomorrow! August 16 - 7 Letters August 23 - 10 Letters August 30 - 12 Letters We will not release hints for the last coup
Read articleElectronic Arts' military shooter set during the modern war in Afghanistan could have lost its official U.S. Army support over the inclusion of Taliban fighters as playable characters in the game's online mode, military officials told Kotaku. The U.S. Army, which officially suppo
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War! Growliest of the Four Horseman. And he’s been invoked before his time. Technically, he isn’t required to do his thing (pulling the wings off angels and the heads off demons, mostly) until the war between heaven and hell kicks off in earnest, but in a celestial wrong-number i
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Never tell your terrible secrets to Treyarch - they're leakier than a chainmail umbrella. An achievements list for Black Ops has dribbled out all over the floor of the internet, and Treyarch community manager Josh Olin more or less confirmed that they were legit. In his tweet, Jo
Read articleThe 11th-hour renaming of the playable Taliban fighters as the "Opposing Force" in this month's forthcoming Medal of Honor game is upsetting some gamers who say publisher Electronic Arts isn't standing up for games or free speech. To those gamers, EA said today, try the demo vers
Read articleResponding to the reaction of the "friends and families of fallen soldiers," Electronic Arts today said today they are removing the Taliban as playable characters from their upcoming military shooter Medal of Honor. The opposing force that the U.S. military take on in Afghanistan
Read articleMarkeeDragon just posted his 30 minute interview with John "RammJaeger" Gibson from PAX 2010. For some of the best footage to date be sure to make your way over HERE and watch it!
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