Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
If you’re a member of the camp of gamers who believe that the answers to puzzles should never be signposted, and that modern games are way too easy, then you’re going to like 1000 Amps. You play as a cute lil’ icon called Plug (no relation to the Bash Street Kid) who is attemptin
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Gabe Newell been talking about the Valve sequel everyone wants, Half Life 2: Episode 3, in terms of the Valve sequel no-one wants, Ricochet 2. With almost audible air quotes around each mention of a possible follow up to Valve's year 2000 disk-lobbing multiplayer arena title, New
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Noitu Love 2 Devolution is Now Available on Steam and 20% off until 10 AM PST on Monday, April 30th. A century after the legendary boy Noitu Love saved the world from the evil Darns, they rise again, but in a chaos of time-bending mayhem! Now it's up to the new hero of the Peacek
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Oh, the terrible weight of expectation. How can I possibly live up to or surpass the gimmick in my last Legend of Grimrock post? Well, unless I somehow created an HTML maze that you had to solve in order to find the details about the new Grimrock patch now being out and containin
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The appearance of Valve’s Gabe Newell on the inaugral Seven Day Cooldown podcast seems to have generated all the headlines in the world. Apple’s new boss didn’t really visit Valve, DOTA2 will use a brand new kind of free-to-play and, now, why ‘Ricochet 2′ has been so long coming.
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Now, PC gamers, you might be mad that you'll have to wait a few weeks after the console release to get Max Payne 3 on your screens. But, as is often the case, Rockstar's noir threequel finds its most beauteous iteration on the personal computing platform. Look at those crow's-fee
Read articleThere must be something about the number three that signals that Rockstar Games is done messing around and is about to get serious. Grand Theft Auto III ? That 2001 masterwork let the world know that Rockstar was ready to take over single-player video gaming. Eleven years later c
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The ever-reliable Indiegames.com notices that Increpare , the devilish mind behind English Country Tune and other mind-twisters, has released MMMMMM , a free spike-laden tribute/alternate take/sequel to Terry Cavanagh’s VVVVVV . It’s a puzzle game about trinket collection and spi
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If you're the kind of person who gets grossed out easily, you might want to plan on ignoring Sniper Elite 2 . That's because the World War II shooter shows you exactly what it looks when a bullet enters a skull. Or a heart. Or male reproductive organs. We captured some of the dis
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Ubisoft's critically acclaimed platformer Rayman Origins is going to get a sequel; it's pretty much inevitable. What form that sequel will take might be hinted at in these screens taken from a marketing survey by one of our readers, hinting at a world filled with dragons, ghosts
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Thanks very much to everyone who participated, and congrats to the winners! In addition to winning a free Steam copy of the excellent indie game Atom Zombie Smasher, they'll be forever immortalized on the Eden Industries website. So without further ado, the top 5 finishers and th
Read articleThanks very much to everyone who participated, and congrats to the winners! In addition to winning a free Steam copy of the excellent indie game Atom Zombie Smasher, they'll be forever immortalized on the Eden Industries website. So without further ado, the top 5 finishers and th
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Dr. Who and Portal get an unlikely crossover in this 3D image by Aussie artist David C. Simon, who actually works as a writer at BioWare's Austin studio. Aperture Daleks
Read articleReader Alex went skydiving the other day, and aside from taking his good self, packed an inflatable Portal turret to go with him. Both then proceeded to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft at 13,000 feet. Alex says that, thanks to air pressure, the turret was actually really to
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Today's Deal: Save 75% off HOARD ! 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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Harvest: Massive Encounter is now available on Mac! Buy it once. Play it on both Mac & PC! Harvest: Massive Encounter is an award-winning real-time strategy game with battles of epic proportions and a unique style of resource management and exploration. Build power plants, mi
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Today's Deal: Save 50% off Postal III ! 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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The Internet is often a place for things that don't belong on it. Things like a 56-page internal manual written for the people that work at the most private gaming company in the world. Yep, you can read that now. What appears to be Valve's 2012 Employee Handbook has crept onto t
Read articleDespite having originally released all the way back in the year 2,000 Anno Domini, CounterStrike is still – still! – the number one game being played on Steam right now. That’s not even taking into account CounterStrike Source. It’s an astonishing achievement, and CounterStrike’s
Read articleHere's the official Max Payne 3 promotional trailer, which premiered last night on ESPN during the Los Angeles Lakers-San Antonio Spurs game. I suppose I should have been watching that, but I was playing Trials: Evolution and swearing loudly. Where was I? Well, the slow motion an
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