Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
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Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off until Tuesday, September 11th at 10AM PDT! No escape from Arkham City…the sprawling mega-prison in the heart of Gotham City, home to its most violent thugs and infamous super villains. With the
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“I’m pretty happy with the way it is at the moment,” says Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson of the latest edition of the world’s most popular footy management sim. After yesterday’s video announcement, we rang Miles for a chinwag about challenges, cheats and camera angles –
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If you're an Android owner and a fan of capping the undead, you might have been a little disappointed by last month's news that Black Ops Zombies was only available exclusively on Sony Xperia devices. Unless you happened to own Sony's Xperia S or Xperia Ion, you were out of luck.
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The latest update to Mount and Blade: Warband's Napoleonic Wars DLC releases the full source code into the wild, which should give Mount and Blade modders plenty to get their gnashers into. Warband's been a great platform for modders, and the extra units and features added by Nap
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The last numerical installment of Rockstar's open-world crime franchise has proven to be a goldmine of really awesome mods on PC. We've seen everything from giant megaladon sharks to Transformers to the Back to the Future DeLorean in Liberty City. And there have been self-referen
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Ever keen to experiment with digital distribution, Steam is trying something unusual on XCOM: Enemy Unknown pre-orders with publisher 2K. Rather than offering fixed bonuses, Steam will unlock increasingly fancy goodies as more people pre-order, including extra character customisa
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It took us a while to figure out what sort of panel we wanted to put on at PAX. We knew we wanted to do more than a live version of our podcast (we do that every week)! We settled on storytelling as a topic because it's a particularly interesting moment in gaming for stories and
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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM) Performance improvements Team For
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In just a few short weeks, Torchlight II will finally come out. I'm looking forward to digging in to Runic's dungeon-crawler for a number of reasons, and of course, the question of "What can they get right that Diablo III got wrong?" is at the top of my mind. But one of the very
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Source Filmmaker version 0.9.5.14 has been released. This update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Improved stereoscopic export Various crash fixes Improved default animationset control groupings
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I Am Alive is Now Available on Steam! I Am Alive casts the player as a lone survivor in a believable, dark and insecure post-apocalyptic world as a man who struggles for survival in a desolate city and tries to reunite with his long lost wife and daughter.
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Race Room Racing Experience is Now Available on Steam and Free To Play! RaceRoom Racing Experience™ is a Free2Race™ game. This first teaser release includes the fantastic Danish Aquila CR1 Sports GT race car, and the fictional racetrack RaceRoom Raceway. RaceRoom Racing Experienc
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Greetings! We've made a few changes to the Steam version of Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack. Design-wise, to make the game flow more smoothly, magnetic surfaces and booster arrows have replaced some of the sections that relied on telekinesis. Also, there are now more toolti
Read articleGreetings! We've made a few changes to the Steam version of Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack. Design-wise, to make the game flow more smoothly, magnetic surfaces and booster arrows have replaced some of the sections that relied on telekinesis. Also, there are now more toolti
Read articleChangelog 1.154 Executable is patched for fixes related with Napoleonic Wars DLC. Check Napoleonic Wars' news page for more information.
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Changelog 1.006 New features: - Added “Litovskiy Ulanskiy Polk”, Lithuanian Lancer Regiment, to Russia. - Added new swords for British Musicians and 95th Rifles, Austrian Infantry and Jägers. - Added new wall scene props for mappers - in desert and wood styles. - Added more destr
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Over the past couple of years, Sony Online Entertainment has transitioned all of their MMORPGs into free-to-play games, relying on microtransactions and a cash shop to make their money. Now, they've announced a plan that would let players make real-world money from SOE's cash sto
Read articleRev: 58381 Level Flow: - Level 3: Push strength increased slightly on underground upward-facing vent - Level 4: Horizontal-moving Telekinesis platform above BBQ replaced with pair of static platforms - Level 8: Mid-level booster-arrow puzzle adjusted - Level 13: First spinning-Te
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In today's first-person platforming episode of the TAY-powered Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Fernando Jorge thinks that EA should put together an online version of Mirror's Edge . I'm into it, Fernando. Until today's post I hadn't realized that Mirror's Edge online would be great
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