Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Civilization V recently got a lot more holy with the Gods and Kings expansion , but some of you fence-sitters haven't yet indulged in abusing religion for your own selfish ambitions. If you're still itching to give your theocracy a try, you'll be happy to know that a demo for the
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While seeing Rome 2 for the first time at Creative Assembly, I spoke to lead designer James Russell and lead battle designer Jamie Ferguson about the new direction that Total War is taking, their ambitions for the game, and why they're returning to Rome after all this time. James
Read articleThe original Rome is one of the most enduringly popular games in the Total War series. It did away with sprites, rendering warfare in full 3D. It added depth and flexibility to the campaign game, coupled with one of the most varied and evocative eras in the history of human confl
Read articleHow often do you find yourself looking at Civilization V and thinking, ‘all this science and culture is fine, but there simply aren’t enough deities knocking about the place’. If the answer is ‘very often’ you might already have bought the Gods and Kings expansion. If not you cou
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From the Perpetually Tantalising Initiative comes this amazing looking plan for a Portal 2 themed Lego set - in much the same vein as this equally-crowd supported Minecraft set that all the cool kids are playing with. While you won't be able to shoot little blocky portals, you wi
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Brushes were shaped, props were modelled, and maps submitted – it’s time to announce the winners of the Nuclear Dawn mapping competition. While not many made it to the finish line, we loved watching the progress and updates to each and every map, and salute all the brave mappers
Read articleBrushes were shaped, props were modelled, and maps submitted – it’s time to announce the winners of the Nuclear Dawn mapping competition. While not many made it to the finish line, we loved watching the progress and updates to each and every map, and salute all the brave mappers
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Fans of the classic single-player Star Wars RPGs may be in for a treat soon, as it appears that a "Knights of the Old Republic Collection" is incoming. Two separate retailers have listed the set, which would presumably include both KotOR and KotOR II: The Sith Lords . The collect
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While knee-jerk analysts (the same ones who incorrectly declared Facebook gaming was a gold rush for all and sundry) at micro-conferences attended only by a minute echo chamber fragment of the games industry ritually declare that free to play is the only possible future of videog
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Spec Ops: The Line was only released this past week but Amazon is already discounting the game up to 50% for the PC version and 25% for the 360 version ! Now you may be saying to yourself, "A game that gets a week one discount that deep must be terrible!" But you'd be oh so wrong
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We all enjoyed Meet the Pyro . It was worth the wait. Except fans still had one question. Who is the man behind the mask?! Well, wonder no more. Thanks to Valve's new Source Filmmaker , we now know exactly who (or what) is beneath the Pyro's mask. But be warned, what you are abou
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Go to the link and Submit your maps, get them added in the next patch! You also get a chance to win great prizes!
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Edmund McMillen speaks his mind. Whether it be about games, religion or poop, he never holds anything back. The indie superstar responsible for Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac drops his latest bits of wisdom in this fantastic interview by Nathan Grayson over at Eurogamer.
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The amazing individual known as Kooberz, who brought us the brilliant stop-motion Lego take on Ghost Recon this past spring is—sorry, Ghost Recon —doing something cooler for his next project: stop-motion Lego Portal . The short film will be released in two or three parts, with th
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Wow. I always thought Legend of Grimrock would be a natural fit for a map editor, but – given that it’s a smaller project in a fairly cutthroat genre – I worried that it’d turn out to be prohibitively complicated for everyone except rocket scientists and RPS readers. Almost Human
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r22173c ------ Critical fixes: + Fixed new population growth issues. + Fixed a crash related to dragging fleets in the relocate mission screen. Other fixes: + Favourite invoices no longer revert to Cruisers after submitting an order. + Spectre attacks now have a range limit in co
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I want to tear out my eyeballs and shove them down this goblin’s grimy esophagus. It’s pretty much the only tactic I haven’t tried in my 34 attempts to beat this campaign foe and his magically reproductive army of green ghouls. This mind-breaking sense of frustration is quickly b
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Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: - Fixed startup crashes on OSX - Fixed linux dedicated server
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Redstone Arsenal, AL (June 28, 2012) - The U.S. Army released America's Army 3.3, which introduces AI for the 4th of July! Read the full SITREP , download the update, and join the fight against the NME Czervenians!
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