Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
One of the most recognizable adversaries in PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies has been sent to the grave, permanently. PopCap tells MTV Multiplayer the Michael Jackson lookalike in the popular casual title has been removed from the iPhone version due to objections from the late singer'
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EA combats Activision's inclusion of a soulful song from Eminem's new album in Call of Duty: Black Ops with the inclusion of a soulful song from Linkin Park's new album in Medal of Honor. Is there some unwritten rule that big-name first-person shooter releases must contain a new
Read articleAfter more than a year spent dancing into our hearts and gardens, objections from the King of Pop's estate cause PopCap Games to replace the killer Michael Jackson lookalike in Plants Vs. Zombies. The Dancing Zombie in Plants Vs. Zombies will forever remain the Michael Jackson Zo
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There I am playing Wii games, the games I'm writing about all day today , and a Nintendo rep asks me if I want to play a WiiWare game. Sure, I love the weird stuff. WiiWare, folks, is all about the weird stuff. Games about giving vegetables haircuts. Games about throwing pairs of
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Capcom, fresh off months of sluggish sales, is keen to make more video games. More video games might mean more sales! According to an article on Nikkei.com, Capcom is speeding up the development cycle on its games from 4 years to 1 ~ 2 years faster. The company currently releases
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Updates 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 new weapon firing integration causing some guns to over-fire on single taps Fixed a couple
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Updates to Alien Swarm have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Alien Swarm Fixed performance issues on SynTek Residential Added Dedicated Server Browser to the main menu Cheat protected marine s
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Experience the demo, Pre-order now , and Save! Play as two of gaming's most disturbing and realistic criminals; Lynch – a self medicated psychopath - and Kane - a disillusioned and desperate ex-mercenary, in a gritty and brutal crime shooter from IO Interactive.
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Updates to Gratuitous Space Battles have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Balance: Shield Support beam being drastically re-balanced with lower beam rate and capacitor, and only able to have o
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HTML5 is, in simple terms, a new language for the web that among other things will allow for videos and animations to play without the need for Flash. It can also breathe new life into old video game art styles. Joe Huckaby over on the Effect Games blog has a great piece up showi
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Sorry for the trouble. A new patch is live that fixed the server crash. Thanks for your patience! /Fatshark
Read articleSorry for the trouble. A new patch is live that fixed the server crash. Thanks for your patience! /Fatshark
Read articleUpdates to Alien Swarm have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Alien Swarm The Vindicator’s grenade explosion effect should no longer crash users running a GTX260 graphics card. Fixed a bug wher
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Version 1.6 of the game is out today, July 23rd. :) Here is a list of changes in the new update: - Reworked the beat detection system. - Added top 10 most played artists and songs to the Scores menu. - Roulette, Auto Combo, and Zapper powers are unlocked faster. (25, 50, 75 activ
Read articleVersion 1.6 of the game is out today, July 23rd. :) Here is a list of changes in the new update: - Reworked the beat detection system. - Added top 10 most played artists and songs to the Scores menu. - Roulette, Auto Combo, and Zapper powers are unlocked faster. (25, 50, 75 activ
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 Second half of 7/23 update
Read articleThe biggest change in this new update is the reworking of the game's beat detection system. After a lot of feedback, we overhauled the system in hopes of improving the experience for our players. We have also made it so that everyone's song count in the demo version will reset. W
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 Added Steam Clan Tag support ( Set yours in Options->Multiplayer->Advanced ) Added new achi
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DIYGamer have finally announced the result of their first Indie Games Tournament and the winner is ... Shattered Horizon . From all of us at Futuremark Games Studio we'd like to say many, many thanks to everyone who voted in each of the rounds of the tournament.
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Does anyone know what the best way is to control a Resident Evil game anymore? At least Capcom keeps doling out options, including PlayStation 3 motion control, which I sampled this week. We've been hearing about motion control support for Resident Evil 5 since last year, and our
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