Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Yes, this is real. Yes, you can download it. No, I'm not excited that you use a TI calculator every day and no, I can't just be happy for you. In my day we did actual math in math class. I want cool things, too! Hmph. Portal on a TI calculator! (new video)
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I probably need to leap back into Garry’s Mod . For about a year, it was one of my go-to games/game-like things. If I was feeling bored, I’d find the most elaborate ways possible to pit a single, pistol-armed human NPC against hundreds of languidly slithering legless zombies and
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Look, it's already pretty clear that the folks at IO Interactive like a particularly adolescent style of joke-making , what with the closet-humping and all. But the latest effort at promoting the Square Enix published game invites you to fling their poor taste at your Facebook fr
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I dunno about that Citizen Kane of videogames nonsense, but one thing we definitely have is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of videogames. Bring up the name Tale of Tales, most renowned/notorious for The Path , and you will be sure to spark a war. A war between those who believe gam
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Once, I thought there was at least some cold, profit-maximizing business precision that guided whatever awfulness-seeking missile explodes games into not-great movies, but now I’m not even sure of that anymore. I mean, don’t get me wrong: Company of Heroes is a work of absolute R
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Release Notes for 12/3/2012 - In addition to TKing, you can now be kicked/banned in two different ways for team hurting: - For doing an unusual amount of damage in a short amount of time. - For doing an excessive amount of team damage over the course of the match. - Partial infer
Read articleNobody tells me anything any more. Seems back in March a Company of Heroes movie was quietly announced by Sony . That movie, a direct-to-DVD thing that is actually tied to the famous PC strategy title (somehow), will be out on March 19. It's got Tom Sizemore in it. And Neal "I wa
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Glorious, glorious madness. You just gotta love mash ups that put two insane games like these together. This mod recreates the dungeon layout of The Binding of Isaac in a TF2 map, including locked rooms and even some horrifying bosses. My favorite part has to be how the players g
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Mark of the Ninja has been updated with the following updates: -Leaderboard feature added
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Following reveal of Crysis 3's system requirements over the weekend, I’ve received confirmation from EA and Crytek of which precious secondary settings we'll be able to tweak in the game. If you remember, Crysis 2 launched with an anemic four tweakable options: v-sync, game resol
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CLICK HERE for the prettier version (with cool AVNT Big Picture image) It takes 2 to spread a virus... 2-4 that is. With Steam Big Picture launching today A Virus Named TOM is a whopping 75% off. Why so much? To celebrate being played the way it was intended: with friends of ques
Read articleCLICK HERE for the prettier version (with cool AVNT Big Picture image) It takes 2 to spread a virus... 2-4 that is. With Steam Big Picture launching today A Virus Named TOM is a whopping 75% off. Why so much? To celebrate being played the way it was intended: with friends of ques
Read articleSteam's Big Picture mode, a full-screen interface with controller support, has left beta and entered the top-right corner of your client. To use it as intended, I'd have to run an exceptionally long HDMI cable from my bedroom to my TV and use a wireless controller, but I'm starti
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The last couple of weeks have given us two of the biggest games of the fall, both from Ubisoft. Assassin's Creed III continues the historically focused swashbuckling adventure series, and Far Cry 3 lets players loose on a violent South Pacific island paradise. Both games feature
Read articleHitman Absolution seems set to become the next game to feel the full force of Square Enix's bizarre obsession with cross-game promotion. After shoehorning practically every one of their franchises into Sleeping Dogs, the company has now released Deus Ex DLC for Agent 47's sort-of
Read articleWhether you think the organisers of the Humble Bundle were right to host a Windows only, Steam only bundle of great games (and Red Faction: Armageddon), it's been a pretty good move for THQ. Since the pay-what-you-want sale went live, not only has the site raised almost $3.3 mill
Read articleWhy distort one beloved franchise when you can do two at once? The latest DLC for Hitman: Ablutions once again fails to add new missions, ideally in a Streets of Hope vein, but instead a new costume and gun which can only be used in the Contracts mode. This new costume is the kev
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Karateka ®, a modern take on the 8-bit karate classic by Prince of Persia® creator Jordan Mechner, is available today worldwide on Steam. The game is on sale with a 10% discount for the first week. Created on an Apple II by Jordan Mechner in his Yale dorm room, Karateka became a
Read articleWe don’t usually do system requirements posts, but when it comes to Crytek they do have a history of basically telling us all that our PCs are rubbish and outdated. Granted, while once it was the high watermark of e-willy waving, the Crysis series hasn’t of late been the technica
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It's coming up on the end of the year, which means it's time to start looking back. And amid the Kickstarter campaigns and DRM-debates that kept 2012 so interesting, one game keeps coming back up: The brutal Spec Ops: The Line . It was a clever game that despite its hum-drum 3rd
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