Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
This Spring sees the release of Tactical Intervention on the PC, a game noteworthy because its development has been led by one of the co-creators of Counter-Strike . So the fact the two games look similar is no coincidence. Former Valve staffer Minh Le, who has been working on th
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"iPad? This ain't no stinkin' App Store!" True, this isn't the App Store. But if you're also an iPad totin' gamer, then this news might interest you. Today, Fractal: Make Blooms Not War was re-released on the iTunes App Store under our own name instead of our old publisher. For t
Read article"iPad? This ain't no stinkin' App Store!" True, this isn't the App Store. But if you're also an iPad totin' gamer, then this news might interest you. Today, Fractal: Make Blooms Not War was re-released on the iTunes App Store under our own name instead of our old publisher. For t
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• DirectX 11 support added for improved performance on many Windows Vista and Windows 7 setups using DX11 graphics cards • Option added to game launcher allowing switching between DirectX 9 and 11 renderers • Additional checks added that make sure a selected video resolution is f
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A Tweeted offer to back a sequel to Tim Schafer's cult favorite Psychonauts was "a semi-joke," said Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft and a guy who's not hard up for cash in light of that game's success. Notch rattled off a host of reasons why we shouldn't get our
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An update to Rochard has been released (1.05). It contains various fixes listed here: • Game content has been restructured and compressed so that minimal code-only patches can be produced instead of releasing everything again (engine restriction workaround). • Steam cloud data is
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The latest CG trailer for Far Cry 3 sets up the premise quite nicely. The psychotic one in the red vest is Vaas, the star of the E3 trailer. It looks as though he'll be hunting you through the jungle as you try to find a boat, any boat, to take you away from the wilderness gone m
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Dear Esther , the minimalist first-person explorer, made its costs back in the first five and a half hours on sale. A quite remarkable achievement for an indie game, and a rather impressive vindication of The Indie Fund, the gathering of successful indies who are funding new proj
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Mr Craig Lager of GamingDaily fame takes to the podium to present a two-part guide to getting started in – and ultimately mastering – racing games. You can do it! “You’re not braking to slow down here, you’re braking to put weight at the front of the car so it’s easier to turn in
Read articleJohn’s already presented his verdict on thechineseroom’s first-person ghost-esque story Dear Esther, but I’ve a thing or two I’d like to say about it myself. And not just because I like to oppress John at any opportunity I get. It’s because Dear Esther really did work its dark, m
Read articleThis February is proving to be a fascinating month for non-traditional development and funding paths in game design. While Double Fine's Kickstarter proposal has been in the news, indie title Dear Esther has been making small waves of its own. Dear Esther became available for pur
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That's a new trailer for Stardock's upcoming expansion to Sins of a Solar Empire. It'll bring jumbo-sized Titan ships and new faction choices to the outstanding 4X space strategy game. It'll also provide a much-needed graphical update to the four year-old title. There are three r
Read articleThis fan made film, Inceptionauts, was used by Tim Schafer in meetings with publishers to try and sell the idea of a sequel to Psychonauts. "It's better than any trailer we ever had for the game" Tim Schafer said to Kotaku. But it wasn't enough to persuade any businesses to part
Read articleMinecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson is able to match Tim Schafer's $13 million Psychonauts 2 development budget valuation. "I can do that," he told the Double Fine boss. "I was like, 'I don't think you can make for a million dollars'," Schafer told Kotaku . "The original gam
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It's pronounced "cara-take-a." And the hit Apple II game is coming back this year. Jordan Mechner's best known for Prince of Persia , the platformer action game that became one of gaming's first independently developed hits. PoP went on to get sequels and a whole new re-imagining
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Didn't see that coming, did you? The years-in-development Duke Nukem Forever is getting pushed back in Japan: from March 8 to March 29.
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Updates to PixelJunk Eden have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: - This patch should fix crashes some people are seeing at startup, specifically problems with active triple buffering on ATI dri
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V 1.06 - Fixed tank explosion played in a loop - Fixed target for repair / heal not being accessible for mechanic / healer - Cone preview is visible when changing stance or turning merc in command mode - Additional target points on torso and head added to make aiming more flexibl
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5 new DLCs , including the free Zombie Level Pack for Choplifter HD , are now available on Steam! In Choplifter HD, players take on the role of an up-and-coming rescue pilot asked to join the elite, international helicopter rescue team.
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