Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
This historic day shall forever be remembered as the first time the Clones group reached 42 members! Thanks again to our beta testers for pointing out the broken bits and suggesting some simple but useful ideas like pausing the singleplayer game when the Steam overlay is activate
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This Thursday from 4pm UK time, some Team17 staff will be hosting games online on Worms Reloaded. We expect this particular session to last about 4 hours, so it would be great if any of you want to join in. :)
Read articleThis Thursday from 4pm UK time, some Team17 staff will be hosting games online on Worms Reloaded. We expect this particular session to last about 4 hours, so it would be great if any of you want to join in. :)
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Atari Europe and Cryptic Studios have announced a change to superhero MMO Champions Online: from Q1 2011 the game will be free-to-play. In practice, that means anyone can download the game and play up to maximum level for free. There is no subscription and no upfront charge. Ther
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Hexen is back! A group of modders have resurrected the classic 1996 first person demon thrasher in the form of an unofficial sequel, made entirely in the Doom 3 engine. The project is called Hexen: Edge of Chaos, and it's taken the team over five years to make. Now, it's almost f
Read articleChampions: Online, the spiritual successor to City Of Heroes, has announced that it will move to a free-to-play model from the first quarter of 2011. This also involves a new closed beta test that starts on the 9th November, mostly aimed at current players, with a possibility of
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The Ball is released today, via Steam . Jim and John have been playing it for the last couple of days, leaving them no choice but to have a chit-chat about it all. Which you can read below. Warning: contains monkey death. (more…)
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RPS reader Andreas “So Powerful” Persson writes to inform us that indie puzzle-racer Nimbus has just been released on Steam for the price of £5.99. £5.99! That’s not even the cost of a book, and as well all know, books aren’t so hot. If a book was on Hot Or Not, how well would it
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If Team Fortress 2 had an air supremacy mode, Dogfighter would be it. It really baffles me why this game isn't more popular. It's got a great look, fantastically responsive controls, a simple premise - Mario Kart meets the Red Baron in a fight to the death - and right now you can
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Deathspank is now available on Steam! The world of DeathSpank is massive and full of tons of unique and hilarious characters, dangerous foes, diverse landscapes, and chickens...lots of chickens. For uncounted years, DeathSpank has been a Dispenser of Justice, a Vanquisher of Evil
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Shank is now available on Steam! Step into a graphic novel with the most fluid and violent 2-D animation ever seen in a video game. Shank must battle his way through the criminal underground in order to seek revenge against the people responsible for bringing his world crashing d
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Starting today until November 1, THQ is offering discounts on its catalog of titles available on Steam. Each day will highlight a new title, or franchise, beginning today with Red Faction. Gamers looking to add additional carnage to their Steam library can grab any of the availab
Read articleUpdates to Worms Reloaded have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Worms Reloaded Reduced the CPU load of the initial file check and added a Cancel button allowing it to be bypassed Custom Game S
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Attention PC gamers! We’ve got a giveaway so momentous that it stands to eclipse epochal moments in history going all the way back to the discovery of fire by an unfortunate troglodyte in a lightning storm about one and a half million years ago. In fact, it’s so spectacularly mas
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Puzzle Dimension is available at half price now through November 10th at 10AM Pacific Time. Act now and save! With the latest update, the game now supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish and Swedish.
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Civilization V has been updated with free DLC! The Civilization and Scenario Pack: Mongols (Genghis Khan) is now available. Also available for purchase is the Civilization Pack: Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar II) .
Read articleDogFighter is now on sale to celebrate the launch of the free Call to Arms update. Such a steal deal will not last forever...sale ends on November 1st, 10AM Pacific Time. Hurry!
Read articleThe Ball is now available for pre-loading on Steam so preload now and be ready to play the moment the game is released tomorrow! Additionally, today is your last chance to grab The Ball, the new First Person Action-Adventure Puzzler, with a 10% discount and an exclusive free char
Read articleThe Ball is now available for pre-loading on Steam so preload now and be ready to play the moment the game is released tomorrow! Additionally, today is your last chance to grab The Ball, the new First Person Action-Adventure Puzzler, with a 10% discount and an exclusive free char
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Terry Cavanagh's wonderful VVVVVV is one of the best 2D platformers of 2010. But what if the gravity-flipping spike-filled interstellar adventure ventured into the third-dimension? It might look a little something like this. Sadly, VVVVVVX is just a mock up. Or, as creator "Roxfo
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