Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Mafia II's release was clouded by confusion over what "open-world" really meant. Some assumed it meant "sandbox," where Mafia II was anything but. Jimmy's Vendetta, the game's first batch of downloadable content offers more of what some had been expecting. That means no Vito, no
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Never before have you had a better opportunity to understand the perils of a poor Item Shop owner. Now you can manage displays and inventory, haggle with customers and supplier, and exploit unsuspecting adventurers all in the name of profit. Capitalism Ho! Recettear is now availa
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Updates to The Guild II: Renaissance have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: 4.15 Description of Monasteries on Novaesium broken AI didn't use new professions (has been tweaked a bit) Possibilit
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Mac gamers will get their murderous mitts on Rockstar's classic open-world murder training tools Grand Theft Auto III , Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas "most likely later this year," the developer has revealed in a fan Q&A . Grand Theft Auto: Vic
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A blurry "photo" that's appeared on Dead Rising 2's Tape It Or Die blog shows the game's protagonist Chuck Greene getting a little help from a journalist who has been known to cover wars. While it's pretty difficult to tell from the screenshot, we're pretty sure that blurry guy b
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Today we are kicking off an exciting new stage in Shattered Horizon’s ongoing development with the start of our Open Bot Beta. To join the beta look for the Futuremark-hosted Open Bot Beta servers. There is one in Europe and there are two in the US. Each server has 12 player slot
Read articleAnd it's like zombie horror game Dead Rising, but with a samurai. Samurai Dead Rising is an online anime collaboration between Capcom and famed Japanese illustrator and character designer Norio Shioyama to promote Dead Rising 2. Shioyama did the drawings and animation himself (yo
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Answering reader mail, Rockstar Games today said it will be bringing Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas to Mac gamers "later this year." "Look for the long-awaited release of the classic Grand Theft Auto Trilogy (Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and
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Updates to Tropico 3 & Absolute Power have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Tropico 3: Fixed stuck pause mode related to road construction shortcut Roads can no longer be placed when disab
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Get into the action up close and personal, or stand high above grounds and command your troops to victory, as R.U.S.E. is now available on Steam!
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An update for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Voice chat volume slider (frontend and in-game), which was previously unmutable. Voice chat microphone enable/dis
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An update for Puzzle Dimension Mac has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Work around for incorrect application startup parameters. Fixed input related problems when having multiple keyboards att
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Friends of Brian Wood, the Company of Heroes developer who lost his life in a tragic car accident on Friday, have established a trust fund to aid his wife and their unborn child during this trying time. Every dollar counts. As reported earlier this week , Company of Heroes Online
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This intense look at Medal of Honor's multiplayer shows off the game's Combat Mission mode. In the mode Coalition forces have to take out five consecutive objectives to win. As your clear an objective the map expands. The mode also has limited respawns, which the game calls reinf
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Uwe Boll, the German filmmaker best known for his film versions of video games, is helming two movies about World War II. Both films were shot back-to-back. One is based on a video game and features zombie Nazis. The other? The other is based on history and features things far wo
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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source 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) Disabled signature checking to deter
Read articleUpdates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Counter-Strike: Source Fixed a crash that could occur if a player disconnected shortly after attacking a bot
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Being fans of all things Puzzle Quest, we've just turned on support for Steam Cloud to it and its cousins. This means you'll be able to continue your quest from any machine when launching the Steam version of the following games: Puzzle Quest 2 Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warl
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The ‘Ranger Pack’ DLC for Metro 2033 is now available to download. The Ranger Pack adds new weapons, nine new Steam Achievements and the deadly ‘Ranger Mode’ game rules. In standard Ranger Mode, ammo is dramatically reduced and all weapons and attacks cause more damage. Your foes
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An update for Gratuitous Space Battles has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Version 1.47 Usability: The battle sounds now work much better in cases where they overload from playing too many ide
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