Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Proteus is a peaceful first-person exploration game set on a cheery pixellated island. There are no enemies. You can’t die. You can’t jump, shoot, dodge or pick anything up. Your only objective is to roam, observe and enjoy the evolving soundtrack triggered by your path. You’ll e
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Notoriously, infamously broken gaming social network/store/DRM Games For Windows Live appears to be, if not quite yet dead, then at least waiting nervously for a visit from the priest. Few shall mourn its loss. Indeed, I had hoped to never experience again its peculiar, malfuncti
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The latest patch for space-combat blaster Strike Suit Zero looks like a cracker, with a much-demanded in-cockpit view (haha, cockpit is a funny word) which – like the game’s other views – should apparently work well with a three-monitor setup. So that’s fancy. In more practical n
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From Vlambeer, creators of Super Crate Box — well heck, that opening bit alone is convincing enough, but look at the video anyway. Ridiculous Fishing hits iOS on March 14.
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Update: despite earlier declining to comment, EA have since told Eurogamer that the report is “patently false”, while Viceral’s UI lead has tweeted that “The reports of our death were greatly exaggerated.” Perhaps it would have been better to say that when a whole bunch of people
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A report earlier this morning, citing unidentified sources , suggested that Electronic Arts had terminated its Dead Space franchise—including work on an unannounced Dead Space 4 —in light of poor sales of Dead Space 3 . The game's studio says the rumors are false, and EA itself d
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Valve are currently beta testing a selection of additions and changes to Steam's Community pages. Not only have they separated out general community activity from your own contributions, and created a Community Home as an all-game version of the Game Hubs, but you can also upload
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After playing the Arma 3 alpha for the past week, I’m ready to share some detailed thoughts on the pre-release version of the long-standing military sim. I’m enamored with most of the improvements Bohemia has made, especially to how Arma 3 looks. The alpha is an appetizer version
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It's actually ending, isn't it? Sniff. Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC releases tomorrow, and it's the last offering from BioWare starring Shepard and his galactic gaggle of friends. A launch trailer is up, showcasing the camaraderie shared between the current and former Normandy cre
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Updated engine with a fix for AMD GPU owners. The game should no longer crash if GPU skeletal animation is not supported in drivers (it will automatically disable GPU skeletal feature with fall back to the old method) NOTE #1: You might have to restart Steam client to get the upd
Read articleUpdated engine with a fix for AMD GPU owners. The game should no longer crash if GPU skeletal animation is not supported in drivers (it will automatically disable GPU skeletal feature with fall back to the old method) NOTE #1: You might have to restart Steam client to get the upd
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And that’s as much as I think any human should have to. (more…)
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We all know the scene: It starts when a character in a fantasy story swears an oath. An oath... in blood . He dramatically unsheathes a knife, places it across his palm, and makes a fist before running the blade through his hand. Yowch. If you're anything like me, that's probably
Read articleOne of the best ways to flex the graphical muscle of our machines is seeing how close we can bring virtual visuals to the real thing. It's not the absolute definition of fidelity, though, and some games—the BioShock family, for instance—dip into a heavily stylized look for a more
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Men of War: Vietnam: Five Additional Languages and Steam Cloud Support Men of War: Vietnam, a game in award-winning Men of War action/tactics series, can be played on Steam in German, Russian, Spanish, Italian and Polish languages in addition to English since today. Moreover, its
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We all have our cultural blind-spots. Knowing nothing about it, The Longest Journey disappointed me, because it wasn’t a high-speed jeep journey across a post-apocalyptic landscape , but instead a story about a girl with a magicface and two addresses or something. Oh, I don’t kno
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Following a struggle with the tech folks following a fault in the SimCity press servers, the lost city of Fahey's Folly —aka the SimCity on the Edge of Forever—was found once again. In celebration, I unleashed red-hot dino fury. Since I'll be using my own Origin account and retai
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The consensus seems to be that Aliens: Colonial Marines isn't a very good game. But that doesn't mean Aliens can't make for entertaining playthrough videos. Ah, the wonders of YouTube. Enter the always-amusing Criken , who has been uploading his playthrough of Aliens: Colonial Ma
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Real-world sunrises get more intense as we get closer to spring—but they pale next to what we can find in games. The lovely time-lapse moments you can see above, from Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto IV , among others, create living, breathing worlds that you just can't wait to div
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