Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Updates to Star Ruler have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Fixed: New treaty notification icon was not disappearing when opening the empire window. Ship build cost would not appear in the hov
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Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds Survivor are now available on the Mac! In Shadowgrounds, fight off massive alien hordes in true top-down, run-and-gun style. Upgrade your weapons to maximize the carnage and blast those aliens back to outer space!
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It appears BioWare does more than talk about a Jade Empire sequel - an ex-employee claims he worked on Jade Empire 2 between 2006 and 2007. Rafael Brown , now a project lead at id Software, listed "Jade Empire 2 (360/PS3/PC)" under the unreleased games he's worked on. He also men
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When we took an overview of the remarkable happenings in the potato sack ARG yesterday, the trail was going cold, and it looked as though things were winding down. For a few hours at least, they were, then it all kicked off again. New updates have added Portal 2 themed levels to
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PC wins: Perfect. As reported by CVG, Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition is coming to PC. This is ultra good news. Street Fighter IV is on Steam, but we never got to play Super Street Fighter IV (which featured extra characters and moves) even though it hit consoles last year. Not
Read articleLast week, in Miami, Yoshinori Ono, the cheerful, jokey lead producer of the Street Fighter series had just shown off his team's new game, Street Fighter X Tekken. He and I were just about done talking about it . I had time for one more question. I need only one more answered: "H
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Portal 2, which appears next Tuesday (how did that sneak up on us so fast?!), continues sneaking its way into other games. I imagine using portals. There must have been a more imaginative way of my phrasing that. Almost every member of the Potato Sack has gained content relating
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Dead Rising games have always been difficult, but gamers haven't always been happy about that. What's a fair way to make a game tough, and what isn't? With each new Dead Rising release, the game creators at Capcom have been tweaking their answer and reconsidering what players wan
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Fallout: New Vegas will be getting a big bug fixing patch ahead of the announcement of its next DLC episode. A post on Bethesda's forums says that the patch will add "optimizations and stability improvements," as well as fixes for the crashes and lockups that many players have be
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Steam today represents a billion-dollar operation staffed by hundreds. But has the platform's meteoric rise restricted Valve's capacity to actually create games? We haven't had a proper Valve-bred IP since The Orange Box games Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode 2 arrived mo
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One would assume that cutting your way through countless orcs would leave your clothes rather messy. Snowblind Studios, the developer of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North makes that happen in what looks to be the most violent game the fantasy series has ever seen. Gore spat
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Unfortunately-named news site Gamepron is reporting that Mr Garry Newman, creator of Garry’s Mod, has gone and done something clever: he introduced an error to his game , an error which only affects pirates. It was a trap! Said pirates even turned up on the G-Mod forums to discus
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Updates to ProtoGalaxy have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Game: All Backdrops in the Alpha Op Campaign are now animated. Added hotkey information to the The Tutorial Mission. The Ecologist
Read articleUpdates to AudioSurf have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
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We couldn't stop her. Please help us. Please help us. Please help us. Please help us. Please help us. Please help us. You would hate me if I insulted your skill by making it too easy. I certainly would Hate you.
Read articleUpdates to The Ball have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Major new content added - 7 locally optimized test chambers made available Includes Edgeless Artifact Cube Any appearance of computeri
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Updates to BIT.TRIP BEAT have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Temporary GLaDOS integration activated <test> level implementation complete <test> level accolades implemented Crypto
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Trying to revert to an earlier version. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Everything is fine here.
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Updates to Defense Grid have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Tesla towers fixed and updated Console fixed and updated Recruits fixed and updated CHAS levels fixed and updated
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Updates to Cogs have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Fixed an install bug for non-English localizations. Stripped away the thin veneer of politeness by removing any requirements to speak magi
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