Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Updated engine with a fix for AMD GPU owners. The game should no longer crash if GPU skeletal animation is not supported in drivers (it will automatically disable GPU skeletal feature with fall back to the old method) NOTE #1: You might have to restart Steam client to get the upd
Read articleUpdated engine with a fix for AMD GPU owners. The game should no longer crash if GPU skeletal animation is not supported in drivers (it will automatically disable GPU skeletal feature with fall back to the old method) NOTE #1: You might have to restart Steam client to get the upd
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And that’s as much as I think any human should have to. (more…)
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We all know the scene: It starts when a character in a fantasy story swears an oath. An oath... in blood . He dramatically unsheathes a knife, places it across his palm, and makes a fist before running the blade through his hand. Yowch. If you're anything like me, that's probably
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One of the best ways to flex the graphical muscle of our machines is seeing how close we can bring virtual visuals to the real thing. It's not the absolute definition of fidelity, though, and some games—the BioShock family, for instance—dip into a heavily stylized look for a more
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Today's Deal: Save 66% on Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity ! 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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Men of War: Vietnam: Five Additional Languages and Steam Cloud Support Men of War: Vietnam, a game in award-winning Men of War action/tactics series, can be played on Steam in German, Russian, Spanish, Italian and Polish languages in addition to English since today. Moreover, its
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We all have our cultural blind-spots. Knowing nothing about it, The Longest Journey disappointed me, because it wasn’t a high-speed jeep journey across a post-apocalyptic landscape , but instead a story about a girl with a magicface and two addresses or something. Oh, I don’t kno
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Following a struggle with the tech folks following a fault in the SimCity press servers, the lost city of Fahey's Folly —aka the SimCity on the Edge of Forever—was found once again. In celebration, I unleashed red-hot dino fury. Since I'll be using my own Origin account and retai
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The consensus seems to be that Aliens: Colonial Marines isn't a very good game. But that doesn't mean Aliens can't make for entertaining playthrough videos. Ah, the wonders of YouTube. Enter the always-amusing Criken , who has been uploading his playthrough of Aliens: Colonial Ma
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Real-world sunrises get more intense as we get closer to spring—but they pale next to what we can find in games. The lovely time-lapse moments you can see above, from Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto IV , among others, create living, breathing worlds that you just can't wait to div
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Today's Deal: Save 75% on Sid Meier's Civilization® V , Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition & Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete ! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever
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Despite what Nintendo would likely call its own best efforts, the Wii U has struggled to attract third-party game makers. Some developers might tell you that's because the Wii U is underpowered , but Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli told a different story to VentureBeat this week. When ask
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The quiet rage of a man who can't remember which pocket his keys are in. Call of Duty - what a monster. With clockwork precision a new edition pops up every year and sells millions without fail. It's doing perfectly well, but in spite of an audacious shift to a far future setting
Read articleWhoo boy, those Crysis 3 graphics. I knew they were good, but I had no idea you could get so enthusiastic about it. I guess I underestimated the passion of bros . Now excuse me—I'm feeling the urge to make some modifications to my PC. Bro Team: Crysis 3
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In advance of the Arma 3 alpha dropping on Tuesday for Steam pre-orderers, I launched a salvo of questions at Project Lead Joris-Jan van ‘t Land and Co-Creative Director Jay Crowe. We'll have in-depth coverage of the alpha when the embargo lifts on Tuesday, March 5. PCG: We were
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Here's the good news: Tactical Intervention, the free-to-play FPS from Counter-Strike co-creator Minh Le, is launching on March 28th. It will be preceded by an open beta starting March 14th, and a closed beta kicking off this coming Monday. The bad news is that, until they find a
Read articleCounter-Strike will probably outlive us all. It will also probably keep bunny-hopping onward long after we’ve disposed of all terrorism and achieved glorious grievance-free utopia. There will be no counters or strikes. Only Counter-Strike. So it’s exciting to hear that the implau
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Nobody likes movies based on video games, with very few exceptions . That said, we're far from giving up on fan-made web shows based on video games. Case in point: this trailer for Machinima and Wayside Creations' Portal series, Aperture R&D . Evidently Machinima is calling i
Read articleWe have released a Beta update for Counter-Strike 1.6. Changes in this update are: Fixed issue getting kicked by CMD_MAXBACKUP error when joining servers
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