Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Grand Theft Auto V has just been splattered all over the front page of the Rockstar website with a simple declaration. TRAILER: 11.02.11. That was a surprise. Everything we know about the new Grand Theft Auto is contained in that logo. It could be anything. What are you hoping fo
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I wonder if many other publishers will follow in Devolver Digital’s path of hiring a bunch of indie developers to create a smattering of tie-in games. I know there’s the requisite Facebook/iOS game, but none has gone as far as those offering us Serious Sam 3: BFE next month (if t
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Rage 's Wasteland is a mean bitch. There are essentials you are going to need to survive, like TV remote controls, dirty mags, and firepower. Who better to explain that than Snoop? The famed rapper talks through what gets him through the Wasteland, as well as gives a rundown of w
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Changes for Dungeons - The Dark Lord 1.1 (a.k.a. "The Halloween Update") These new Halloween features will activate at midnight on October 25, 2011 - New spell "Pumpkinhead": The Dungeon Lord who invokes this spell will recieve a 10% modifier on his/her resistances. The increase
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For the past 15 years, Sweden's Yami has been cosplaying. While others might favor cool or cute characters, Yami specializes in zombies, gore, and the stuff of nightmares. In these images, she cosplays as characters and zombies from Resident Evil , RE5 , Left 4 Dead , and The Wal
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Winner of 2010′s Make Something Unreal contest, The Haunted: Hells Reach is Now Available on Steam! All Hell Has Broken Loose!!! The Haunted is a fast paced third person action horror game that focuses on delivering an intense multiplayer experience. Your goal is to liberate curs
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Hyrule: Total War is exactly what it sounds like. Its 20 factions herald from the furthest corners of the Zelda universe. Whether you want to command a small mountain of Gorons, a bunch of dudes dressed like Sheik, or Zelda herself, Hyrule: Total War aims to make it all possible
Read articleIt's been a big month for PC games, and things are about to get even bigger, so if you've been lazy and forgotten to update your graphics card drivers, you're going to want to fix that. Between big games having issues ( RAGE ) and even bigger games just being...big ( Battlefield
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- Anti-mashing algorithm will no longer interfere with higher-end Hard/Spasmodic play - Slight decrease in combo/accuracy requirements for learning spells - Players will be able to reunlock the ability to change difficulty level after defeating the secret boss - The achievement "
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Fall of Setarrif , an all-new standalone expansion for Arcania: Gothic 4 , is now available on Steam! A new threat casts its shadow over the Southern Isles. A mysterious demon, consumed by hatred, terrifies the population and pools his force against the coastal city of Setarrif.
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Airline Tycoon 2 is Now Available on Steam and 15% off until October 31st 10AM PST. A decade after the best-selling Airline Tycoon comes the long awaited sequel to the legendary tongue-in-cheek economic simulation that puts players in the role of CEO of an international airline!
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A couple of weeks ago, I attended GDC Online in Austin. I was covering the event, but I was also there as a speaker, giving a microtalk as part of a six-critic panel on great game storytelling . Joining me were N'Gai Croal (Hit Detection), Leigh Alexander ( Gamasutra ), John Davi
Read articleSerious Sam: The Random Encounter is Now Available on Steam and 10% off until October 31st 10AM PST. Save an additional 10% is you own another Serious Sam title on Steam. The legendary Serious Sam reloads and rearms in an explosive, turn-based RPG developed by indie developer Vla
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Klei Entertainment's upcoming Shank 2 brings a new brand of extreme slice-em-up to the stage with its co-op gameplay. We've already seen some of it in action off-screen, and it certainly looks like a lot of team-stabbin'. Klei sent along a grip of new screenshots from both the si
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Data Jammers: FastForward is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off until October 31, 2011 at 10 AM Pacific Time! From the makers of Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity, Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, Dr. Blob's Organism, and Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, Data Jamme
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Today's Deal: Save 50% off the Cyan Complete 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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Valve co-founder Gabe Newell gave a fascinating insight into the pricing experiments Valve have been running with Steam at the WTIA TechNW panel in Seattle recently, revealing that Team Fortress 2's shift to free to play quintupled its player base. During the course of the seven
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EA has released a new boundary-blurring trailer for its upcoming Battlefield 3. Consisting of live-action video intermingled with in-game footage, the trailer poses the question, “Is it real, or is it Battlefield 3?” It’s a fairly smart way to promote the new game’s Frostbite 2 e
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Boxed copies of Battlefield 3 come with a flyer for an upcoming Medal of Honor title, according to a post on NeoGaf. It’s been widely hinted that Danger Close - who made the single-player campaign of last year’s beardy MoH reboot - is working on a new instalment of the franchise.
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For a complete genetic freak of a hedgehog (he’s blue!), Sonic’s not done too badly. His latest adventure - Sonic Generations - sees the speedy erinaceinae travel through time with his mates and hopefully revisit the period of history before Sonic titles became a bit poo. Pre-ord
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