Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
We are nearing the conclusion of Beta stage 1. So far about 200 people have helped testing the game and where needed stating improvements. See www.runespell.com/forums We look forward to starting Beta stage 2. People can still sign up, but will be let in later as the current test
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Tip-top action-RPG Torchlight has now sold over one million units across all platforms, developer Runic Games has announced. We were first charmed by Torchlight on PC in October 2009, with a Mac launch following in May 2010, and an Xbox Live Arcade edition this March. Torchlight
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Updates to Fallout: New Vegas have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: New feature: system save is automatically created prior to endgame sequence. After credits, user is prompted to load save ga
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Recently, at E3, we got the chance to catch up with the CEO of Paradox Interactive, Fredrik Wester to discuss the company's recent success with Magicka, Mount and Blade and King Arthur. Wester revealed that 90% of Paradox' revenue is now made through digital distribution sales. H
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Paradox Interactive, publisher of games like Magicka and Mount and Blade , says it no longer needs retail support. "Retail sales are like a bonus for now," Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox told PC Gamer , revealing that 90% of the company's revenue now comes through digital distrib
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This morning, I’ve been tinkering around on Wicked Wake, Battlefield: Heroes' take on Wake Island, via a private server. Wicked Wake is going to be added to Battlefield: Heroes tomorrow - in the meantime, we’ve got a screenshots and a few first impressions below. First off: I’d f
Read articleThe Old World Blues DLC for Fallout: New Vegas is out on Friday. The Bethblog announes that a humongous patch is set to arrive alongside the expansion. The update will add make "massive world optimizations" and add a pre-ending sequence autosave for players who want to jump strai
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Here's a look at Finalroundbats, a Tokyo-based fighting game tournament. If you've ever wondered what the fighting game scene looks like in Japan, this is a window in. It looks kind of murky and moody! Scott Popular hosts the events. More about him and money games here .
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Nyan Cat , which is either the best or worst thing to happen to the internet in 2011, is certainly the best thing to happen to Duke Nukem Forever in this clip from the game's opening stage. Having seen (and, admittedly, drawn) a dick or two on that whiteboard in my time, it's gre
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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM) Fix
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Thanks to PC mods, people can still impress us with the beauty of 2008's Grand Theft Auto IV . Lighting and weather effects can go a long, long way in making Rockstar Games' crime epic very, very pretty . It's even prettier as a postcard. The screenshot-snapping artistry that is
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Blackmonkeys.de has published version 1.0 of its delicious Star Wars mod, Galactic Warfare. The mod tempers Modern Warfare's sprinty, killstreaky gunplay into Rebels vs. Empire blaster fights across familiar Star Wars terrains like Mos Eisley, Bespin, Tatooine, and more. Download
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Super Street Fighter® IV: Arcade Edition is now available in Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. Other countries can start pre-loading now and be ready for the July 8th launch. (see availability below for details) The definitive version of Street Fight
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Hey, anyone remember demos? They were this crazy thing game-makers did when they wanted people to play their games but expensive pre-rendered trailers that said absolutely nothing about what a game was actually like hadn’t been invented yet! The crazy fools. What was the point in
Read articleFour screens for Old World Blues, the third DLC expansion for Fallout: New Vegas have emerged. One of which depicts a robot called 'Muggy' with a picture of a mug on his screen asking you if you have any mugs. Try and decipher the secret of the mug obsessed robot with the screens
Read articleDICE exec Patrick Söderlund has told told German mag GameStar that there are currently no plans to add modding tools to Battlefield 3, saying that the power of the Frostbite 2 engine makes it tough to tweak. "As of now, we are not going to make any modding tools," said Söderlund.
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Word reaches us from RPS that Twisted Pixel’s upcoming Xbox Live title, Ms. Splosion Man may be on its way to PC. RPS say that it appeared very briefly as a listing on Steam, but was swiftly pulled and replaced with the less explosive “ValveTestApp105420.” Ms. Splosion Man is a p
Read articleGlitches plagued Fallout: New Vegas when it came out all the way back in October of last year, making patches all but a certainty for the game. Even so, it's still surprising to see such a massive patch as the one detailed in this post on the Bethesda Blog, nine months after the
Read articleFallout: New Vegas' story advances with fresh new kicks on July 19, when the Old World Blues expansion pack hits Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network, and Steam. Yo, let me bust the funky screenshots. The residents of the Mojave have long suspected the boundless wastes of the Big E
Read article4X galaxy conquering game Star Ruler now has a demo available ahead of its upcoming September retail release. Star Ruler has a procedurally generated 3D galaxy that can spawn up to 10,000 star systems into your game. With numerous research and diplomatic routes at your disposal,
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