Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Swords and shields adventure Hunted: The Demon's Forge hopes to capture your imagination this week. By virtue of it being the only major release, will it capture the contents of your wallet too? You play as couple of money-obsessed mercenaries who would never help anyone without
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I chatted to Gas Powered Games' Chris Taylor and Microsoft Games' Danan Davis about their new free-to-play game Age of Empires Online. Chris also talks about making Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander, and Danan about making Rise of Nations and Rise of Legends. And everyone
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We knew that Metro: Last Light was happening back in April , after THQ registered the related URL. However, the official reveal of the Metro 2033 sequel has taken place today, along with a whole one screenshot (click on it to see it full size) and a teaser trailer. It’s off to po
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Cryptic Studios has been acquired by the Chinese MMO maker Perfect World, reports Gamasutra . According to the report, the company paid approximately $50.3 million for the studio, and acquired a 100% equity interest in Cryptic. Atari had been looking to sell Cryptic recently, hav
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Ubisoft have kicked off a series of Assassin's Creed dev diaries in the run up to E3 with a fun look behind the scenes in the studio. The dev team on information lock down, but here are a few things that they do manage to confirm over the course of the video, spotted by VG247: "C
Read articleThey call it their flawed masterpiece. Released last year, 4A Games' Metro 2033 gave gamers a chance to experience a different sort of apocalypse, one untainted by Western views and culture. Metro 2033 was an apocalypse shaped by old world fears, and Russian ethos. Based on the n
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(I was going to title the post Gordon ‘The Body’ Freeman, but I figured people would just think it was porny fanfic). james Benson, the chap behind the splendid Dance Fortress video has gone for a rather different tack for his next project. He’s cut a new trailer for the original
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The trailer above confirms the long-rumoured Call of Duty premium subscription service. Call of Duty Elite is set to launch alongside Modern Warfare 3. It will add social networking features like Facebook integration, video sharing, friends lists, groups, competitive leaderboards
Read articleCryptic Studios - creator of City of Heroes, Star Trek Online and Champions Online - has a buyer: Chinese MMO outfit Perfect World. Perfect World paid $50.3 million (£30.4 million / 35 million) for Cryptic. That's 55 per cent more than Atari paid for Cryptic in 2008 - $27.5 mill
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As far as short nicknames go, hers must be on of the shortest. Going by the frisky sounding "H", this cosplayer focuses her attention primarily on one thing: games made in Osaka. Her cosplaying efforts breathe life into characters appearing in titles from Platinum Games, such as
Read articleHunted: The Demon's Forge is now available on Steam! As you travel deep within the world of Kala Moor, you will use a variety of deadly weapons, powerful spells, and cover tactics to face down wave after wave of vicious enemies. It will take the combined efforts of two great warr
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Updates to Bullet Candy have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Bullet Candy Fixed mouse cursor not being displayed in menus on some ATI cards (added a cursor image) Added a games played counter
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Fixes Compatibility issue with computers having more than 2 CPU cores Automatically disables shadows when incompatibility is detected, thus allowing the game to run. Improved compatibility detection. Bug in scenario 12 that occurs in the Hydro Shop.
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Today's Deal: Save 50% off 4 Elements ! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
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Today's Deal: Save 50% off NightSky ! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
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Today's Deal: Save 60% off Samorost2 ! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
Read articleTotal Annihilation was one of the PC's most forward-thinking strategy games - it threw out all the arbitrary conventions of the genre and created something more like a simulation. The result was a game plenty of PC gamers still consider unsurpassed. More recently, its creator Chr
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Now you can cruise the seedy streets of Grand Theft Auto IV 's take on Liberty City from the comfort and safety of your web browser, thanks to the efforts of GTA's most dedicated fans and some 80,000 screen shots. The folks who run GTA4.net added an impressive new feature to thei
Read articleRemember the time you gunned down all of those terrifying, pasty monks? Or when that unhinged fella with the chainsaw chased you down the alleyway? Man, that was really fun. This trailer for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D for the 3DS put me in mind of a late night spent marath
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Kammerer , is a Swedish electronic group that usually pumps out mellow trip-hop. Their latest album is an uptempo departure from their usual style, and includes a couple super bumpy, jagged-peak rides we're featuring on Radio this week. Lebeth
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