Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Valve wants the share the QuakeCon love with Team Fortress 2 players. As part of the QuakeCon sale on Steam, each of the classes--soldier, engineer, heavy, and sniper--gets a new toy inspired by Bethesda-related titles. These items are all bonuses, awarded for either owning or pr
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Today's Deal: Save 66% off the The Maw and The Mawesome Pack 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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If you've been neglecting the Playstation Network's downloadable offerings, then perhaps you'd like to drop by and take a gander at the Playstation Store's wares in the coming weeks as the first annual PSN P event kicks off. Beginning August 9, the Play lineup will highlight four
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It looks like virtual soldiers--particularly those fond of unlockable content--will have plenty of swag to keep them coming back to Battlefield 3 . Battlefield 2 was the first game in the series (and one of the first shooters, in general) to contain (the now nearly ubiquitous) pe
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A post on the Team Fortress 2 blog from Robin Walker tells us how to get how to get hold of the new TF2 Skyrim, Brink, Rage and Fallout items we mentioned yesterday. If you buy or pre-order the relevant game from Steam during Quakecon, they'll unlock automatically in Team Fortres
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Updates to Dead Horde have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Dead Horde Improved: jump distance decreased Improved: jump animation duration decreased Improved: jump timer refilled faster Improv
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Coinciding with both QuakeCon 2011 and the release of Brink's first DLC, Steam has started a free weekend for Splash Damage's parkour shooter. Spotted by Eurogamer, the offer has already started, and continues until Sunday evening, giving players a chance to experience the multip
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The Humble Indie Bundle continues to get robust, as yet another title has been added to the growing collection. Atom Zombie Smasher from Blendo Games is now included with all Humble Indie Bundle 3 purchases. Since it launched on July 26 , the bundle--which splits profits between
Read articleLATEST: Servers still broken, no idea why, working to fix. It looks like Brink is having a free weekend! , so you might as well grab it and see what the fuss (or lack thereof) is about. I’ve put the RPS servers online, you can search for them in-game by searching for “Rock”. Ther
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id Software has said for several years that it intends to release the Doom 3 source code after Rage shipped, and now those plans are looking a little more concrete. During his legendary QCon keynote speech yesterday, id technical wizard John Carmack revealed that parent company Z
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Man, all they had to say was "Brazillian" and "guitar instrumentals" and I was hooked on Maycon Bianchi . "Pollution" reminds me of epic boss battle music!! I know I will take some flak for putting up a song that is uphill for the first half on Radio, but "Dream" was so pretty I
Read articleMan, all they had to say was "Brazillian" and "guitar instrumentals" and I was hooked on Maycon Bianchi . "Pollution" reminds me of epic boss battle music!! I know I will take some flak for putting up a song that is uphill for the first half on Radio, but "Dream" was so pretty I
Read articleid Software is to release the source code for its 2004 shooter Doom 3 to the public later this year, technical director John Carmack has announced. Speaking during his keynote at this year's QuakeCon event in Dallas, Carmack revealed that parent company ZeniMax had given it permi
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Torchlight did land-office bidness on Xbox Live Arcade, but Torchlight 2 is so far above the memory limit on an XBLA game that the developer is focusing instead on a MacOS port after its upcoming PC release. Max Schaefer, the Runic Games CEO, told Eurogamer that the first Torchli
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Fixes "Steal stack" AI issue: sometimes the AI would give an attack hand to the player. No more gifts from the AI! Achievements unlocked in the demo are carried over to full version on Steam. One battle and a save in the full version is needed to activate the sync Gathering the m
Read articleIn celebration of the mega gaming event QUAKECON, save big on different games from id Software and Bethesda each day, now through August 8th 10am PDT. Today only, save 65% on all DOOM & QUAKE titles when you buy the DOOM & QUAKE Complete Pack , which now includes the newl
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Today's Deal: Save 75% off the King's Bounty series 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!
Read articleDuring his kenote speech this afternoon at QuakeCon 2011, id Software's John Carmack revealed that the source code for Doom 3 would be released to the public later this year, sometime after the October release of Rage .
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The Humble Indie Bundle 3 has expanded in all directions. The pay-what-you want package originally offered Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, VVVVVV, And Yet it Moves and Hammerfight, then Mojang threw in a trial to let purchasers play Minecraft for free until August 14. Then rotating
Read articleBrink: Agents of Change DLC is now available to download for free on Steam. The new pack, which will cost $9.99 after the initial 14-day free period, adds shiny new bits to almost every section of Splash Damage's shooter. The biggest update included in the free-for-now DLC are th
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