Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Electronic Arts is giving us an advanced look at how cooperative play is going to work in upcoming action role-playing game Darkspore. The four-player coop mode felt a lot like cooping through the old Diablo games, but with that distinct spacey, Spore feel to it. Have a look.
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Are career criminals Kane and Lynch finally going to appear in a great game? It would appear so, as the PC version of Tomb Raider spin-off Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is getting some unexpected playable characters. The stars of IO Interactive's gritty but flawed Kane &am
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A father in the Canadian province of British Columbia contacted the police on Monday after receiving sexually explicit messages from a man his 12-year-old daughter had met playing while Resident Evil 5. The father, a resident of Nanaimo, British Columbia, told authorities that th
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You can now enjoy four new map packs for Civilization V! Purchase the Asia , Americas , Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean map packs individually or as part of the Cradle of Civilization DLC bundle . The Cradle of Civilization map packs are Firaxis-designed maps of real-world loca
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Updates to Puzzle Agent have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Fixes Render Layer Issues on NVidia 400 Series Video Cards – Fixes the graphics bug that blocked players at the first snowmobile p
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nail'd is now available on Steam. To commemorate its launch, the game is available at a 10% discount now through December 7th 10AM PST. Constant sensation of ultimate speed is the players companion throughout the game. Lightning-fast reflexes and tactical skills are what stands b
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ARMA II: Private Military Company , a downloadable content for ARMA II: Operation Arrowhead , is now available on Steam. ARMA II: Private Military Company (PMC) is a huge downloadable expansion for this summer released ARMA II: Operation Arrowhead delivering a new campaign, a bra
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An update for Gratuitous Space Battles has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Major rewrite of tons of areas to reduce memory usage and squash lots of small memory leaks. Tractor beam turrets are
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Updates to The Polynomial have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Fixed in-game help rendering on certain versions of Catalyst driver. With those versions, the in-game help was previously invisi
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The great thing about Garry's Mod is that it simply gives you an arena and gives you all the tools needed to build anything you want. Many Garry's Mod players have found that the best part of building something is the bit at the end when you use a nuclear bomb to blast it to smit
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You're probably done with congratulating developers just for sticking an XP system in their game. And with good reason; applauding the insertion of statistical progression is like celebrating the creativity of whoever puts MSG in Pringles. That said, when it comes to the Shift se
Read articleAs the battle of the simulation racers heats up, one developer has revealed exactly what he thinks of his rivals. That developer is Shift 2: Unleashed's lead designer Andy Tudor, who had some choice words for Sony's Gran Turismo 5 and Microsoft's Forza 3 when Eurogamer interviewe
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A man is taking a photo in a video game. Yay. But, no! This is Frank West in the new Dead Rising 2 downloadable expansion. This is the return of photography. The beloved photography system from man-vs.-zombies game Dead Rising didn't make it into this fall's Dead Rising 2. But it
Read articleControversial Xbox Live Arcade exclusive Dead Rising 2: Case West will release next month, Capcom's announced. The downloadable game sees photojournalist Frank West return to Fortune City to investigate Phenotrans and find proof of its involvement with the zombie outbreaks. Epilo
Read articleThis year's break-out success on Xbox Live Arcade was Dead Rising 2: Case Zero - the downloadable prologue to Dead Rising 2. Capcom revealed that as of the end of October, the game's total sales were over 600,000. "Crazy! Thanks to everyone for making it a big success!" wrote Cap
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Updates to Farming Simulator 2011 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Fixes Fixed sync issues with baler in multiplayer (2.0) Fixed issues with non-ascii characters in nickname (2.0) Fixed i
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We've been working hard over the last week to tweak the game based on player feedback. Behold the glory that is v1.25: - Updated multiplayer map: Octogame. - Added option to assign morph on hotkey release instead of press. This is for those that wish to use the click-to-morph met
Read articleWe've been working hard over the last week to tweak the game based on player feedback. Behold the glory that is v1.25: - Updated multiplayer map: Octogame. - Added option to assign morph on hotkey release instead of press. This is for those that wish to use the click-to-morph met
Read articleUpdates to Clones have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Updated multiplayer map: Octogame Added hotkeys to HUD New morph-on-keyup option Fixed various bugs with demo servers joining full game
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It’s Saturday, so that means it’s time for another…..Hang on, it’s not Saturday! Never mind. The lovely folk over at Arcen games have just sent word that they are lopping off an entire 60% off all of their games. Not only does buying DRM-free direct from the developers come with
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