Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
This week, a few mods that I’ve been monitoring but haven’t had a chance to have a proper go at yet. In some cases, that’s because they haven’t been released yet, in others it’s because the hours in every day are sadly limited, and as well as playing games and writing about them,
Read article
Darwinia and Defcon developer Introversion stopped working on Subversion nearly a year ago, Eurogamer has discovered. Subversion resembled a collection of tech demos but "the core game itself wasn't really that great", creator Chris Delay told us. "What happened was, we were tink
Read article
PC players may have quenched their thirst for witching quite a while ago, but Xbox 360 players still have yet to witch at all. But take heart, aspiring console witchers. Warner Bros. Interactive announced today that it will handle the publishing duties for the 360 version of The
Read articlePC players may have quenched their thirst for witching quite a while ago, but Xbox 360 players still have yet to witch at all. But take heart, aspiring console witchers. Warner Bros. Interactive announced today that it will handle the publishing duties for the 360 version of The
Read article
Whoa. When did PC gaming become so damn... award-winning? PC has cleaned up at the Golden Joystick awards with a wealth of exclusives. And the non PC exclusive games that took an award? We get to play most of those too, only more anti aliased, and in a better resolution. The best
Read article
The launch trailer for Battlefield 3 is here. It's got everything you'd want from a military shooter campaign. Important men in shirts shouting about MARINES and INSURGENTS, shots of tanks rolling through dusty streets, jets blasting away from an aircraft carrier. Then all out wa
Read article
Fixes: -Fixes a game-crashing bug in Tutorial 3. -Fixes a bug on both the Spellset and Learn Spell screens.
Read article
Jut a few weeks before Modern Warfare 3 comes out, Infinity Ward reveal some major and encouraging changes to the way Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer works. In his opening comments executive producer Mark Rubins says that Infinity Ward took a hard look at Modern Warfare 2, and reali
Read article
After far too long a hiatus, Double Fine Productions unexpectedly returned to PC last week, releasing their year-old, Halloween-themed RPG Costume Quest on Steam. Hopefully the rest of their games will follow, but in the meantime here’s what I made of their dress-up duff ‘em up.
Read article
Update - RockPaperShotgun let us know that Peter Hines has called this rumour 'complete bollocks'. Kotaku are reporting that id Software's Doom 4 has been put on hold following Rage's launch issues. Kotaku's unnamed source tells them that Bethesda felt that the problematic launch
Read article
Actually it’s more like 30-something Qix , since the first appearance of this game type was in 1981. Anyway, there’s a demo of Lightfish, which is like Qix with Flow’s visuals, over on Steam . It throws in some novel gameplay variants, of course, but the heart of it is dividing u
Read articleInspired by last year's Fallout: New Vegas , Nanahra has made himself a replica New California Republic Ranger's outfit that, at a glance, looks as good as the real thing. Not that the real thing's actually real. But if it was, it'd probably look like this. Only slightly more rad
Read articleImprovements: - Included a windowed option. - Game will now run on a wider variety of hardware. - Game should no longer attempt to reinstall components on every bootup. Known Issues: - On certain machines, minimizing and returning to windowed mode causes a periodic twitch. We are
Read article
A source claiming to be close to the publishers of the recently-launched Rage has told Kotaku that, at a recent "company wide" meeting held in Dallas, Bethesda and parent company Zenimax made the decision to "indefinitely postpone" development of Doom 4 . Pete Hines, responding t
Read article
Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of Grand Theft Auto III with the Weekend Deal. Save 66% on all Grand Theft Auto titles or 75% on the Complete Pack! With the freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, Grand Theft Auto 3 puts the dark, intriguing and ruthless world of crime at your fi
Read articleLightfish is Now Available and 10% off until October 26th 10AM PST. LightFish is a highly addictive arcade game, where the user controls a small fish who lives in the abyssal deeps of the ocean... surrounded by deadly creatures. His objective is to destroy all the monsters who in
Read article
Updates to Garshasp: The Monster Slayer have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: - Added Russian language support - Added Polish language support
Read articleSequence is Now Available on Steam and 10% off until October 27th 10AM PST. Sequence combines elements of both rhythm and role-playing games to create an entirely unique experience. Join Ky on his ascent of a mysterious Tower, guided onward by a mysterious girl named Naia. Encoun
Read article
Cities XL 2012 is Now Available on Steam! Cities XL 2012 is the new version of the famous City Builder, which allows you to build, develop and connect together cities of all sizes and types on Cities XL planet. To build your cities, the version 2012 now offers a huge choice of ne
Read article
PAYDAY™ The Heist is Now Available on Steam! PAYDAY™ The Heist is an action filled first person shooter that lets players take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”. Load out with an array of weapon
Read article