Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
I’m just pulling together some rambly thoughts about my year in games for the site. Which reminds me that I wrote about one of my faves for Tom “Tom Bramwell” Bramwell over at EG towers, and makes me think I could link to it as an aperitif or something. And I totally can. Lots on
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The Elder Scrolls games have been brilliant for long time: huge open worlds that let you go wherever you fancy, get wrapped up in hundreds of different stories, and make a life for yourself. But until Skyrim, they weren’t particularly good at one of the most exciting things about
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We've already recognized a whole bunch of the best game soundtracks of 2011 . But of course, there are only so many hours in the day—only so much time to play games, and one can only write about so many game soundtracks. Fortunately, you guys were up to the task of nominating out
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In 2008, I took it upon myself to return to and finally finish a game that had hung over me for 14 years – the original Civilization sequel, Sid Meier’s Colonization (the old one, not the underwhelming Civ 4-based remake from a couple of years back). Here’s what happened. This on
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Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II finally gave Star Wars fans the power that they've always wanted: the ability to use a lightsaber. Released as a follow-up to LucasArts' first shooter, Dark Forces , it continued the story of the mercenary Kyle Katarn as he raced against Sith Lord Jare
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Just as its sister site ModDB picks the top PC gaming mods of the year, IndieDB rounds out the year with a countdown of the top independently developed games of the year. Think of it as a shopping list to help establish your indie gaming cred. How many of the top ten have you pla
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Deus Ex: a game so good it gave us actual neuroses about its sequels. Invisible War, a shonky but interesting and sometimes hilarious shooter, became reviled as a crime against gaming for declaring itself to be Deus Ex 2. And when Human Revolution started looking seriously, serio
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Both the Android and iOS editions of Grand Theft Auto III support user mods originally made for PC, cunning players have discovered. It's a bit wonky, but people have had luck bringing in new cars, textures, songs, and more. The Tech Erra has a video tutorial on how to mod the iO
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SPAZ v1.015 - Fixed crash when viewing catalog preview in star and system map - Fixed AI dropping of Rez at deployable turrets - Fixed minor spelling issue
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Sometimes games aren't to your exact liking. If you have computer skills, maybe you can create a mod. If you have computer skills and developed the game, well, you can do that, too. J.E. Sawyer, who worked as project director on Fallout: New Vegas and the game's DLC, created a mo
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2011 saw its share of disappointments , but it was also a year that contained a good number of nice surprises. Some were games we just didn't see coming—they snuck up on us and grabbed us with their excellence. Others were games that we thought were going to be terrible or at bes
Read articleFallout: New Vegas lead designer J.E. Sawyer has reworked the balance of Obsidian's post-apocalyptic RPG, amping up the difficulty and tinkering to his own preference. Intriguingly, these changes come in a mod of Sawyer's making, not any official patch. The mod, spotted by No Mut
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The Nintendo Download ends the year on a high note with the release of Terry Cavanagh 's indie darling VVVVVV on the 3DS eShop, adding a 3D twist to the game's already twisted gravity platforming. If the 3DS does nothing more than get a few indie PC greats into the hands of the m
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Dear Motes, We're running a video contest, along with Andrew Vanden Heuvel (an online physics & astronomy teacher with the Michigan Virtual School), calling for students and gamers alike to create videos demonstrating physics principles via Osmos. First prize is a $500 Amazon
Read articleDear Motes, We're running a video contest, along with Andrew Vanden Heuvel (an online physics & astronomy teacher with the Michigan Virtual School), calling for students and gamers alike to create videos demonstrating physics principles via Osmos. First prize is a $500 Amazon
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When we last saw the upcoming game from Jonathan Blow this summer, The Witness already looked like an intriguing experience . The way that Blow's game design interwove puzzles and environmental cues created a hypnotic level of immersion where you had to pay attention to a gamewor
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Listen: the first thing you need to know about the music in the newest Rayman game is that it's got some kickass virtuoso kazoo playing. Yes, kazoo. Like, a plastic one. And it kicks a lot of ass. That bit of whimsy comes courtesy of Christophe Héral, a musician/composer who's wo
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The charming indie platformer VVVVVV will make it to the 3DS just in time for your New Year's Eve party. You can distract yourself from Ryan Seacrest and the Black Eyed Peas with some gravity-swapping puzzles. The game is scheduled for release on the eShop this Thursday, December
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We elevate the Total War games beyond simply being good strategy games because we believe they’re story-engines: that not only do they offer deep and difficult decisions about how to paint the map your colour, but they also entertain you with your own genius. Shogun 2 is a specta
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_ensnare_ (the guys behind the fantastic Frozen Synapse soundtrack) are back with a new fakebit album, Binary Opposition . All you really need to know is there's a track called Cascading Doom Pony. Play it on Audiosurf Radio now!
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