Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
The blowup this week over gun-camera footage showing an Army operation raised comparisons to "video game-like" behavior by the men pulling the triggers. NPR's "On the Media" looked at this controversy and the relationships among games, tactics and weapons systems. "On the Media"
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The studio responsible for last year's indie adventure/puzzle hit Machinarium says six months of talks with Microsoft ended with no progress on bringing the Indie game to the Xbox 360, because Microsoft doesn't want to support games that aren't Microsoft exclusives. Update: The o
Read articleThe studio responsible for last year's indie adventure/puzzle hit Machinarium says that Microsoft refused the game for Xbox Live Arcade after six months of negotiations. "They don't want to support games which aren't Microsoft exclusives," the studio chief alleges. "Microsoft jus
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Updates to Madballs in... Babo:Invasion have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Madballs in... Babo:Invasion Babo crash launches more reliably now Babo crash should no longer crash on exit Babo
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The Street Fighter franchise has a reputation for tacking on inscrutable modifiers like Alpha, Super, Tournament, EX, Zero, etc. in lieu of full sequels. The game's producer says Super Street Fighter IV is as far as it goes for this generation. Yoshinori Ono told Official Xbox Ma
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Where once they shuffled, now they run. Initially born of forbidden voodoo rituals or the sign of a religious apocalypse, for the past decade zombies have slowly metamorphosed into the by-products of something else entirely. Science now, not the supernatural, is most often to bla
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New Features • Ranked 1v1 System! • Ranked Challenge System • Unranked Quickmatch • Map Pings - Added three different kinds of map pings for team play. F5 issues a generic alert to your teammate at a specific location, and it appears as a yellow arrow when zoomed in and a yellow
Read articleNew Features • Ranked 1v1 System! • Ranked Challenge System • Unranked Quickmatch • Map Pings - Added three different kinds of map pings for team play. F5 issues a generic alert to your teammate at a specific location, and it appears as a yellow arrow when zoomed in and a yellow
Read articleUpdates to Supreme Commander 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: New Features Ranked 1v1 System! (see below for a detailed explanation of this new system) Ranked Challenge System (see belo
Read articleSupreme Commander 2 now supports Ranked 1v1 matches. Each player starts with a Ranked Rating of 1500, and each Ranked match increases or decreases your Ranked Rating. This rating determines your position on the Ranked Leaderboard. The Matchmaking Menu is accessed from the Main Me
Read articleSupreme Commander 2 now supports Ranked 1v1 matches. Each player starts with a Ranked Rating of 1500, and each Ranked match increases or decreases your Ranked Rating. This rating determines your position on the Ranked Leaderboard. The Matchmaking Menu is accessed from the Main Me
Read articleThe biggest new feature for Ranked play is the addition of "Challenge Mode." "Challenge Mode" is enabled on the Matchmaking Menu. If both players who are looking for a match have the option enabled, they are able to "Challenge" each other at any point of the match in order to "Ra
Read articleThe biggest new feature for Ranked play is the addition of "Challenge Mode." "Challenge Mode" is enabled on the Matchmaking Menu. If both players who are looking for a match have the option enabled, they are able to "Challenge" each other at any point of the match in order to "Ra
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A new update for Dawn of War II and its standalone expansion Chaos Rising should arrive today, developer Relic has revealed , bringing the PC RTS-RPG to v.2.2. Dawn of War II and the Chaos Rising Expansion Chief among the additions is support for custom keybindings, supplemented
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Players of Avalanche's explosive open-world sandbox Just Cause 2 now have a new toy, as a free downloadable add-on is hitting PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 today. Described as a "pimped-out Ice Cream Van," the Chevalier Ice Breaker has been fitted with a "sturdy front ram, side
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New York, NY - April 8, 2010 — 2K Play announced today that the critically acclaimed The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom will be available April 20, 2010 on Windows PC through Steam. Set in a world made famous by keystone cops, theater organs and pie-in-the-face slapstick, the
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Developer and publisher Futuremark will be releasing the second set of free DLC for its first game, Shattered Horizon, a space-based FPS that plays with the laws of gravity and gunfire. The game's first pack , released back in February, came with four new maps. The new 'Firepower
Read articleA playable demo for the Xbox 360 version of Chris Taylor's real-time strategy game Supreme Commander 2 should be available today for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Xbox Live Silver members will have to wait until April 14. The demo features two tutorial levels and two campaign missi
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Updates to Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000 Added game type to the game description on the "Join Game" menu Multipl
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Updates to Arsenal of Democracy have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: New features: Shift-click in convoi menu Mission window now selects new target if province target is invalid (switching fr
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