Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Grand Theft Auto IV's iCEnhancer series of mods and tweaks takes a Rockstar PC game that looked pretty good already and turns it into - relative to the scale and size of GTAIV - the prettiest video game on the planet. At least, if realism is your thing. And if your PC can handle
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Here's three news screens from the upcoming Max Payne 3 . Whenever I think Max Payne, I think a trenchcoat diving in slow-motion, a gun blazing from each hand. I guess Rockstar does as well.
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Read articleSince we ran a feature on Duncan Harris, the groovy "video game photographer" behind the website DeadEndThrills , I've been sharing some of his work each week here. This week Harris brought in some great shots from a modded version of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV . Let's take a
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Crazy Machines Elements is now available on Steam at 10% off the first week. Play with Fire, harness the power of water and control the wind to set off the most insanely creative chain reactions! Build crazy machines from everyday objects and bizarre components. Utilize the eleme
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Hey, why should indie game developers get to have all the bundling fun? Game composers should get to experience the joy of bundling too. I'm glad to see that they finally are. The folks behind the recent first-ever Indie Game Music Bundle are back with… can you guess the name?… t
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The new Star Trek game currently in development at The Darkness 2 studio Digital Extremes will be published by Namco Bandai in early 2013. The title ties in with the follow-up to J J Abrams' 2009 Star Trek movie, which is due in cinemas on 17th May 2013. However, it will tell a s
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Looks like Obsidian headbrain Chris Avellone’s earlier talk about getting ‘Kickstarter fever’ based upon Double Fine’s happy day (they’ve now passed $1.3 million in funding by the way – which, as Tim Schafer notes, is more than the budget for Day of the Tentacle and almost that o
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It's been a long time coming, but Bioware have finally released the promised trailer starring the female Shepard that fans voted to create. It's a treat for anyone who loved Jennifer Hale's performance as female Shepard in the first two games and it sent a tangible shiver down my
Read articleGod forbid we’d post yet another Mass Effect 3 trailer, but… well, here’s another Mass Effect 3 trailer. It stars, at long, long last, the female version of Shepard, finally getting just a tiny fraction of the official marketing acknowledgment she deserves. You will, I trust, und
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Patch to version 1.0.4.16 is out now. The game will be automatically updated when Steam client is restarted. In this version the broken challenge chapter 14.1 has been fixed, moderate difficulty's balance adjusted and the scoring changed so that playing on harder difficulties gra
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Added Italian and Spanish localizations including full audio support
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We don’t usually allow RPS headlines to run onto a second line, but this is a very special case indeed. During idle Twitter discussions about the whys and wherefores of a possible Mojang-funded Psychonauts sequel, I heard that the first game had cost $15 million to develop and th
Read articleThe Mass Effect 3 website has been updated with FIVE new trailers. The one above struck me as the most interesting to Mass Effect fans. It's the first we've seen of the upgraded weapon and armour customisation. Attaching better barrels, silencers and scopes will change the appear
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It's the weekend before Valentine's Day, and that means love is in the air. What better time to pick up some indie games to enjoy with your significant other? Or, alternately, to distract you from your crippling loneliness? The Indie Royale Valentine's Bundle is here to help. The
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They say you should always be prepared to kill your darlings. Darwinia creators Introversion have taken it one step forward, creating nothing short of a Darwinian snuff movie to mark their transition from little computer people to… prison architects. Yeah, that’s still a little w
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The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences held its Interactive Achievement Awards at DICE last night, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim took home the Game of the Year prize, among four other awards. The game also won RPG of the year, and outstanding achievements for story, gam
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Updates to King Arthur II - The Role-playing Wargame have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client (in on-line mode) is restarted. Major changes include: King Arthur II – The Role-playing Wargame v1.1.05 - Knights of the Lights Leadership co
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Despite the fact its creators have railed against the quality of iPhone games, and openly trolled consumers on the iTunes store by selling a parody game for $350, Super Meat Boy is being rebuilt to be playable on touch-screen mobile devices, the game's two-man team said in a Twit
Read articleThere's retiring old video game characters by not using them any more, and then there's retiring old video game characters by building little models of them and destroying them. Introversion, the developers of strategy game Darwinia, are done with the property. Having worked on i
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