Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
The Massachusetts institute of technology have been experimenting with their computers' AI. Specifically the way they deal with the meaning of words. You might think that the best way to analyse this kind of thing would be with a human to PC conversation, like in Short Circuit. T
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Positech Games, the one man studio behind Kudos, Democracy and Gratuitous Space Battles, has announced its newest title, Gratuitous Tank Battles. Set in an alternate future where a war has been raging for 200 years, the game promises "It'll all be over by Christmas 2114." “I supp
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I'm still trying to absorb the fact that after making my favorite of the Call of Juarez games, developer Techland decided to shift the entire franchise from the old west to modern times and make it about drug dealing. But I adjusted. At least it will deal with a very real modern
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Critical Mass , the three-dimensional match-4 game that Brendan so exhaustively discussed a couple of weeks back, now has a demo . That is all. Move on. Go.
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Jen: So Sam, If you could have your dream HP video game, what would it be like? Sam: Harry Potter would not be in it at all! Jen: Hahahaha uh agreed. Sam: I want to be an Auror hunting down death eaters, potentially before Voldemort's fall from power. It's such a huge universe wi
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EA has earmarked another 18 online multiplayer servers to be shut down this year. The first, larger batch will be switched off on 11th August 2011. Among the multiplayer servers disappearing will be those for Army of Two (PS3, 360), Skate (PS3, 360), Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (PS3,
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Not content to run a downloadable games service where players have to wait weeks for repairs in order to play titles already out on Xbox Live Arcade, Sony Computer Entertainment America commits $20 million over three years towards the development of more excellent PlayStation Net
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Dawn of War 2 made a bold shift away from the scale of the first game. It dropped base building and huge armies and replaced them with a cluster of upgradeable units with skill trees and armour slots. If you felt that the Dawn of War 2 format failed to capture the enormous armies
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EA has bought casual gaming giant PopCap Games in a deal worth $1.3 billion. The Bejeweled, Zuma, Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies creator will receive $650 million in cash and $100 million in stock. PopCap will be given an additional $550 million in bonuses in next few years for hi
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Though Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III is still not formally announced, that hasn't stopped publisher THQ and developer Relic from talking about the RTS sequel. The latest revelations come from Relic marketing manager James McDermott in an interview with Eurogamer , covering to
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OK, not really, but Ragnar Tørnquist's adventure masterpiece The Longest Journey certainly got close, as you can see in the image above. Via, where else, Twitter .
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Thierry "BARONTiERi" Doizon is something of a legend in the world of video game concept art, having been in the business since 1995. In that time, he's worked for companies like Ubisoft, Eidos and Acclaim, while contributing to series and games such as Assassin's Creed , Prince o
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The next instalment of the city-building simulation series Cities XL is headed to PC this October, announced today by developer and publisher Focus Home Interactive. Cities XL 2012 , as it's imaginatively named, will boast new environments and 60 maps including a desert oasis, th
Read article- Hot-Seat: Refresh resource icons for each player so that you cannot see another players resource icons above the fog. This also allowed you to see the location of a natural wonder discovered by another player as well. Both have been addressed with this fix. - Hot-Seat: Fix auto
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"You will never survive my deadly robot scorpions!" screams a man in the middle of the new trailer for Old World Blues, the latest expansion for Fallout: New Vegas. The phrase "old world blues" conjures images of a seasoned old man on a rocking chair with a battered guitar, waili
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Football Manager 2011 has plenty of custom leagues and new skins, but mods themselves are pretty scarce. Still, we've selected the top five Mods to customise and streamline your Football Manager 2011 experience. Click through for the mods, and details of how to download. 1.Genie
Read articleFootball Manager 2011 has plenty of custom leagues and new skins, but mods themselves are pretty scarce. Still, we've selected the top five Mods to customise and streamline your Football Manager 2011 experience. Click through for the mods, and details of how to download. 1.Genie
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Someone on the internet has been a sneaky, sneaky snake. If you type modernwarfare3.com into your browser, you'll find yourself redirected to the Battlefield 3 home page. CVG report that the domain name was registered by a private user, so it could be EA, or a Battlefield fan pul
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Natassia Malthe starred in BloodRayne II: Deliverance , BloodRayne 3: the Third Reich , and In the Name of the King 2 . That's three films from infamous filmmaker Uwe Boll! Does Malthe have any regrets? Yes, but not about working with Boll. Malthe told Fangoria that Boll is "tota
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Brazilian artist Leonardo Sang has started up a project called VRP, or "Virtual Reality Photography". The aim is to use "video games as platforms for everyday photography". Using Grand Theft Auto IV as his foundation, Sang has taken a number of screenshots from the game and compo
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