Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, 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 (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM) Fix
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Murlocs in Space! Or perhaps not. Bungie announcing that their next game will be an MMO doesn't come as a surprise, but it'll be interesting to see if they will become as iconic in the MMO space as they have been within the FPS circles. The other huge story of the day, of course,
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SEGA's Dreamcast Collection is now available on Steam. Experience four of SEGA’s classic hits from the Dreamcast era in this must-have collection. Speed through uncharted territories in Sonic Adventure DX™ , zip around town in Crazy Taxi™ , fend off menacing invaders in Space Cha
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One of our favorite Renaissance men of the video game/music crossover world is Jamez Gillman aka hamst3r of the Hamst3r Alliance and he's back on Radio this week with some nasty, grimy, gritty dubstep and funky electro. "Neurotransmitter Decay" felt to me like I actually was surf
Read articleOne of our favorite Renaissance men of the video game/music crossover world is Jamez Gillman aka hamst3r of the Hamst3r Alliance and he's back on Radio this week with some nasty, grimy, gritty dubstep and funky electro. "Neurotransmitter Decay" felt to me like I actually was surf
Read articleHomefront PC's online component is being developed by Digital Extremes, the creators of Unreal and Unreal Tournament. Their job is to add PC specific features to Homefront, including clan support, vehicle cockpits, stat tracking and dedicated servers. Read on to find out what you
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DICE general manager, Karl Magnus Troedsson has been talking about DICE's focus on the PC version of Battlefield 3, saying that he feels DICE neglected the PC while they were building the first Frostbite Engine and making Battlefield: Bad Company. He also confirms that the PC wil
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“MONEY. DRUGS. AND GUNS,” quoth the new trailer for Call of Juarez’s upcoming modern-day sequel , which is an interesting coincidence as that’s my life motto. Why, only last night I had a bit too much tea and stayed up shooting men in Dawn of War: Retribution until 2am! Ah, this
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Couple Darwinia+'s longer than expected development with a "poor performance" on Xbox Live Arcade , and it's no wonder Introversion has decided to focus its future on Steam. "Do we regret working with Microsoft? No, but it's unlikely we'll work with them again," Introversion's mo
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Start a discussion, tell us about bugs if you're in the Beta, tell us what you love and what you hate in as hyperbolic a fashion as you can! Steam Forums
Read articleStart a discussion, tell us about bugs if you're in the Beta, tell us what you love and what you hate in as hyperbolic a fashion as you can! Steam Forums
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Ubisoft recently announced that Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood will be dropping the always-online DRM of Assassin's Creed 2, but said that players will still be required to login to validate their copy of the game. Many thought that this would mean logging in every time the game i
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Take advantage of the Weekend Deal and save BIG on Ubisoft's 4-game bundle . The pack includes Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition , Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 , Far Cry® 2: Fortune's Edition , and Call of Juarez®: Bound in Blood . Bundle will be offered now through
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Updates to Dawn of War II: Retribution have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Dawn of War II: Retribution Players no longer need to wait for all of their enemies to leave the game in order to b
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Now you can enjoy more of Civilization V with the new Civilization and Scenario Pack: Polynesia ! The Polynesian Scenario Pack brings you both the Polynesian Civilization and a new Scenario, Paradise Found. Rule the world as Kamehameha, unifier of Hawai’i, with your powerful navy
Read articleThe Da Vinci Disappearance is a DLC pack for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood on consoles, but will be included as part of the PC version for free. It contains a campaign to rescue protagonist Ezio's good friend, Leonardo Da Vinci, presumably by stabbing everyone in Rome until you f
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As long as we’re talking superfine indie games, SpaceChem , the finest puzzle game 2011′s seen to date (and arguably the finest indie game, too) has arrived on Steam . Anyone who hasn’t yet tried the demo (available in Windows, Mac and Linux flavours) should physically drop what
Read articleSpeaking at GDC yesterday, Ben Cousins has revealed that Battlefield Play4Free cost a mere 10 to 15 percent of the upcoming Battlefield 3's budget to develop, and that it's already making a profit through microtransactions. Battlefield Play4Free is currently in beta, and has take
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Updates to Shank have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Save data is no longer windows username dependent. Fix an issue running at 1920x1200 on Windows 7. Create log files to be able to gather
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John Romero, legendary designer of seminal first-person shooters Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake, is turning his attention to a new type of gamer Facebook gamers. "We have satisfied hardcore gamers for decades," the id Software co-founder told Venture Beat . "Now it's time for t
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