Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
When Street Fighter IV's ultra combos are recreated in the real world, is the result silly looking or totally bad-ass? As "action company" Thousand Pounds, demonstrates, it's somewhere in the middle. Watch as Vonzell Carter, James Young and David 'Dax' Bauer beat each other up wi
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Dead Space 2 is a crazy good game , and the survival horror series is building up a sizable fan base. Know what that means? There are rumblings of movie possibilities. The games already got the animated and graphic novel treatment as well as toys. So a big screen version seems to
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Video games are meant to be an escape from the real world. Yet sometimes, escape be damned, they do such a good job of depicting real locations that the player can't help but want to pack their bags and go travelling. Whether that be because a game is set in a painstakingly reali
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Series creator Lorne Lanning and the team at Just Add Water have announced that an HD remake of Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is in production. An interview in the March issue of EGM (via Facebook ) outlines the plans for the game, nicknamed "Abe HD." "It's basically Abe's Oddysee bein
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Details on Paradox’s second expansion for historical heavyweight Hearts of Iron III (the first being Semper Fi ) are starting to emerge, like flares fired high over the endless battlefield that is everyday life. Entitled For The Motherland, the expansion will focus on the Soviet
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Who's That Flying?! is now available on Steam! As the mysterious and powerful "Guardian of Earth", fly through 15 colorful levels to defend your cities from the ravenous hordes of Doom Beasts!
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It's been a long, strange trip for Commander Video of Gaijin Games' Bit.Trip series, but he's finally coming home. Check out the official trailer for Bit.Trip Flux, the sixth and final stop on the Bit.Trip train. It's hard to believe it's been so long since Bit.Trip Beat's debut
Read articleLast week, I played through Dead Space 2 . This week, I'll see it through to the end one more time, perhaps having more fun, feeling less stressed, better appreciating its immense technical and visual artistry. Let's hear it for New Game Plus. Visceral Games' Dead Space 2, like t
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And lo, in the Kingdom of Ehb, at a time of warring factions, the weakened King did fall. And the King’s daughter, the beautiful Jeyne Kassyndar, didst blame the 10th Legion, the warriors who had, in previous games, been known for their excellent fighting skills, pulling offst su
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Kaos Studios have announced a wealth of PC-only features for their upcoming FPS, Homefront, along with system specs and pre-order information. Click more for the details. A post on the official community site confirms that Kaos will be making use of Valve's Steamworks toolset and
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Late last week, Sony revealed its new portable, currently codenamed NGP, to the world. Perhaps you read my liveblog ? Now you can watch the real thing, complete with English voice-overs. The event showed off the new NGP as well as games like Uncharted and Little Deviants. Game de
Read articleA Visceral Games engineer built this Minecraftized trailer to celebrate Dead Space 2. "I put it up in time for launch but it was too dark," he writes. "Now that the partying has worn off, I remembered to brighten it." The trailer was done by Michael Noonan, a gameplay engineer fo
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In 1995, Enix America closed, throwing plans for an English release of Dragon Quest VI into doubt. "I may not live long enough to see Dragon Quest VI," wrote one fan . She wasn't exaggerating. She was 76 at the time. After 15 years, Dragon Quest VI will get an English localizatio
Read articleKAOS Studios & Digital Extremes talk Homefront PC on the Bash & Slash podcast! Check it out here: In addition, here are some PC FAQ's: Will a Dedicated Server Executable be provided? Definitely, we’ve been listening to what the PC audience is looking for and that file wil
Read articleKAOS Studios & Digital Extremes talk Homefront PC on the Bash & Slash podcast! Check it out here: In addition, here are some PC FAQ's: Will a Dedicated Server Executable be provided? Definitely, we’ve been listening to what the PC audience is looking for and that file wil
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PopCap's addictive reach has once again emerged on PS3 soil. Today, Sony Computer Entertainment announced it will bring a port of the PC fan-fave Plants vs. Zombies to the PlayStation Network in February. If you're tired of hearing that cute song, SOE also revealed a slew of orig
Read articleLike most games, you get some cool stuff for completing Dead Space 2. Complete the game on its "hardcore" difficulty, though, and you'll get something better than cool. You'll get a foam finger. You know, like the " #1 " things you get at sports games. Only this one kills bad guy
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Why is Brazilian techno/trance so consistently awesome? I'm not sure what their secret is, but I'm just glad they keep crankin it out. Psy Brazil brings us our Radio tunes this week. All three songs are in the neighborhood of 7-8 minutes long, have traffic of about 180 congestion
Read articleWhy is Brazilian techno/trance so consistently awesome? I'm not sure what their secret is, but I'm just glad they keep crankin it out. Psy Brazil brings us our Radio tunes this week. All three songs are in the neighborhood of 7-8 minutes long, have traffic of about 180 congestion
Read articleAlien vs. Dead Space, by Vitor Zago. Don red/blue glasses to see the 3D effect. (Click it for big size). Or see the original work in standard color . Seen on DeviantArt.
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