Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
A mistake Saints Row: The Third didn’t make, but always seemed horribly likely to, was promise more than it could deliver. Those trailers, those terrifying spoof gameshows, the hype of such a scale of silliness and violence, was all delivered. Which is one of the many reasons why
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Two video games, Grand Theft Auto 5 and Call of Duty, will account for around a quarter of all video game sales in the coming financial year, a report suggests. A third of all money made from video games in the next year will also come from just those two titles, US financial ana
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Broadcasting standards agency Ofcom has slammed ITV for mistakenly labelling a clip of video game Arma 2 as real-life footage of a Libya-funded IRA attack. ITV included the YouTube video of tactical shooter Arma 2 in a documentary on the now-deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddaf
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What's your Xbox Avatar's current look? A generic t-shirt with a lightsaber and cat? Come on, you can do better than that. To celebrate the slightly delayed release of Max Payne 3, Microsoft's rolling out virtual threads and accessories that pay homage to Rockstar's modern noir f
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HBO is limbering up for a television drama tackling the most harrowing and difficult subject it's approached yet: indie video games. It's early days yet, but the American cable channel has unexpectedly optioned documentary Indie Game: The Movie to make a half-hour series. And in
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Nanotechnology engineering student TheObviousTrap created a 300 nanometer thick Aperture logo in an undergrad class. Bravo! "Obtaining the image using scanning electron microscopy is probably overkill but that was only equipment I had access to," TheObviousTrap wrote on Reddit .
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Today's Deal: Save 50% off The Binding of Isaac 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 Demolition Inc. 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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Our new game is now available, 10% off during launch week... DANGER! Earth is under attack from a vast armada of flying saucers. Only you can stop the invasion of these relentless alien monsters. Do you have what it takes to defeat the Gorg and save the solar system? Find out in
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The gang at XDA-Developers are hard at work on a full port of Counter-Strike to Android devices , but they've already released two playable versions Android owners can run go get free right now. The video above shows Counter-Strike being played on a smartphone (using the game's M
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If making a fuss keeps working, it’s only going to encourage us. In the last week we’ve – among others – reported on the extremely peculiar choice in Ubisoft’s chosen DRM for Anno 2070, to have it use up an activation every time you do something so simple as change a graphics car
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Updates to Sword of the Stars II have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Critical Fixes: + Fixed a ship module sound issue that could potentially cause leaks. + Optimized code that was contribut
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- Improvement allowing cars not to get locked up with one another - Roll of certain classes have been improved. - The default settings of Classic cars have been switched with the new settings. (eg: standard setting is now the chaos&destruction setting) - Smashing destructable
Read articleToday's Deal: Save 75% off Medal of Honor 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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Could it be possible that Sonic the Hedgehog—after years of underwhelming games—is enjoying a bit of a resurgence? Both the re-release of Sonic CD and the debut of the all-new Sonic Generations have been reminding people how fun it is to play as Sega's mascot. But, as opposed to
Read articleUbisoft's finally seen fit to pipe up about Anno 2070's extremely sensitive (read: prone to detecting minute graphics card changes - not penning tear-jerking poetry) DRM, and well, perhaps no news actually was good news. In short, Ubisoft told RPS that its DRM is functioning prec
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Storm in a Teacup is Now Available on Steam and 15% off until Thursday January 26th 10AM PST. Take Storm on a wonderful adventure in his magical teacup. Storm's brother Cloud has created an amazing dream-like world for you to explore! Solve puzzles, avoid pitfalls and beat the ba
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By popular demand, the Official Game Guide for Fractal: Make Blooms Not War is now available at CipherPrime.com . This guide covers the mechanics and metrics for the different types of fractals, blooms, and game modes available. For anyone interested in gameplay videos, check out
Read articleBy popular demand, the Official Game Guide for Fractal: Make Blooms Not War is now available at CipherPrime.com . This guide covers the mechanics and metrics for the different types of fractals, blooms, and game modes available. For anyone interested in gameplay videos, check out
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This update adds German, French, Italian and Spanish localization to Take On Helicopters. The game was already available in English and in Czech, but with the addition of these new languages it widens its doors to flight game enthusiasts all over the world.
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