Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
To celebrate the upcoming release of Total War: SHOGUN 2 , Steam will be offering a special sale on Total War franchise now through Monday, March 14th 10am PST. To kick things off with a bang, check out the specially discounted Total War Collection Pack that includes the followin
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There's a rumor flying around that Universal Studios is shopping around for a script to resurrect Doom as a movie franchise, this time cashing in on the 3D craze. It makes sense that with id working on Doom 4, parent company Bethesda Softworks would want to push for some increase
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Monday Night Combat Updates Update 5 3/10/11 Summary This update focuses on the new player experience. With the influx of players coming from PAX East we wanted to make sure that the new Monday Night Combat fans get to play with other new fans without getting rolled over by veter
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Grand strategy Europa Universalis III is now swollen to the point of popping with four (count ‘em) expansions, and these are all to be bundled in a single thing called Europa Universalis III Chronicles . The new bundle will be out on the 22nd of March. Quite why RPS hasn’t spent
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Universal wants to make a new DOOM film, despite the first unanimously falling foul of critics and averaging a lowly 34 per cent (Metacritic). This will be a reboot, What's Playing reports , and Universal is looking for a script that uses stereoscopic 3D to the max. A script? "He
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UPDATE: Winners announced! Congratulations to Christian Coogan, Abra Cadabra (lawls), Iuliu Balibanu, and Scott Jones! Thanks to everyone who entered. Have you ever wanted to stay up all night in a tropical paradise, playing just one more turn? Now you can, thanks to PC Gamer Air
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Two new expansions for Majesty 2, Monster Kingdom and Battles of Ardania , are now available on Steam! Each expansion adds a new campaign with monsters, missions, and multiplayer content! To celebrate, Majesty 2 and the Kingmaker expansion are 80% off until March 16th at 10AM PST
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The latest Football Manager 11 patch will update the player database to include all the hirings and firings of the January transfer window. As well as the updated rosters, the patch will add a ton of fixes, interface tweaks and balance adjustments. The changes will improve everyt
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The end of this year is going to be an orgy of exciting sequels: The Elder Scrolls 5, Mass Effect 3, and the tenth Battlefield game, Battlefield 3. It's a sequel to the third Battlefield game, Battlefield 2, which was the 1,940th prequel to the original, Battlefield 1942. It all
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The PlayStation Store has been refreshed but will be taken down for maintenance at 4.05pm UK time today. It won't be up and running again until 3am tomorrow morning. Nevertheless, those fast enough have access to a single-player MotorStorm Apocalypse demo. Eurogamer's MotorStorm
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Microsoft's Games for Windows Live service has the power to make grown men cry. Tears of blood. It seems that even Microsoft know it. Well, kind of. Senior producer of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, Kevin Unangst, has been speaking to CVG about the service's “roc
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The Wizard's Survival Kit , new content for Magicka, is now available on Steam! The Wizard's Survival Kit grants you a hat, two new weapons and the Meteor Shower Magick to decimate your foes! Additionally, a four-pack for Magicka has just been released. Get one copy for yourself
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Aw, bless. I share the below video not because it gives much away in terms of when and if we’ll see Counter-Strike 2 (though it’s certainly not a denial, which is some kind of good news at least), but because of the charming awkwardness of Gabe Newell’s reaction when asked direct
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RISK™ Factions is now available on Steam. Wage war with five factions, each with unique abilities, in the original game of strategy and world domination!
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Act now and take advantage of huge savings! Mafia II is available at 75% off during the Midweek Madness sale. Offer ends Thursday at 4pm PST. Quickly escalate up the family ladder with crimes of reward, status and consequence… the life as a wise guy isn’t quite as untouchable as
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Despite the advances of the past decade, from physics engines and motion control to near photo-realistic graphics, there is one area in which games still have huge scope for improvement. Why, after all this time, are so many videogames still so bad at telling stories? True, there
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Just saying. We'll have our review up on the site at 9AM PST, 5PM GMT. Beware: our Dragon Age 2 review contains significant enthusiasm.
Read articleDragon Age 2 can look a lot prettier on PC, and here's the first step. Developers Bioware have posted a one gigabyte extended texture pack that should upgrade the "level art" in the game. You can download it from the Bioware patch database. As soon as we've got it installed, we'l
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A sequel to 2006's Silent Hill movie started shooting in Toronto today, producer Davis Films has announced. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D will star X-Men Origins: Wolverine alumnus Adelaide Clemens as lead Heather Mason, alongside Kit Harington, who you'll soon see in HBO's adaptati
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The whimsical indie platformer game, Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time is now available at a new low price. Doc Clock also features SteamPlay - buy once, play on either PC or Mac OSX!
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