Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Theatre of War 2 - Battle for Caen is now available on Steam! Play through the historical British campaign "Battle for Caen" in Theatre of War 2 - Kursk 1943's new expansion! New squads, weapons and maps await you! Save 10% on Theatre of War 2 - Battle for Caen. Offer good until
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Multiplayer FPS Blacklight: Tango Down finally hits PlayStation Network this week but gamers looking for Move compatibility will be disappointed. Developer Zombie Games is much more interested in 3D. Project lead Jared Gerritzen told Eurogamer, "Move is definitely one of the cool
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We're giving away 10,000 copies of Bejeweled 2 this evening. If you're hoping to get one, please go to your User Control Panel and make sure you're signed up to receive our newsletter. If that box isn't checked when we send them out, we're not allowed to e-mail you stuff like thi
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A series of exciting and spoilerific Call of Duty: Black Ops videos have hit the web. Two videos show short sections of the single player campaign and a third shows the zombie mode in action. On top of all that, the player characters for the zombie mode have also been revealed, a
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EA's vision for the Need for Speed franchise involves alternating the developers behind every November release in a similar way Infinity Ward and Treyarch alternate development of Call of Duty games. This November's game, Hot Pursuit, was created by Criterion. November 2011's gam
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EA's admitted Danger Close and DICE's recently released Medal of Honor reboot "didn't meet our quality expectations". However, the gargantuan game maker denied the Afghanistan shooter was a failure, and promised gamers next time it'll make "something they appreciate more". "I'm n
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Well, only two multiplayer games, but they are games. One is zero-G astronaut battler (with excellent space furniture), Shattered Horizon , and the other is slightly wonky Wild West shoot ‘em up Lead & Gold: Gangs Of The Wild West . They’re temporarily free to play on Steam o
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Fallout: New Vegas is good. Is it perfect? No. In hardcore mode, the rate at which you die from thirst isn't high enough. I demand to die faster! Luckily, there's a mod for that. In fact, there are lots of mods. There are tweaks that alter the weight of scrap metal, there are dif
Read articleNext week a gaming behemoth lands in our waters. Call of Duty: Black Ops a game with pre-order numbers big enough to cause retail waves that'll surge higher and further than even those generated by Modern Warfare 2. So with the masses secure in the cosy embrace of Call of Duty'
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Square Enix has detailed downloadable content for Front Mission Evolved, some of which is free, some of which costs cold hard cash. Weapons Pack 1, out today on Xbox Live and tomorrow on PSN (it's already out on PC) brings three new weapons: Machine Gun: Dark Hog, Shotgun: Blacks
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Daigo Umehara is a world class champ. You? You might be a world class chump. Gamers in Kuwait apparently have a chance to go one-on-one with Daigo. According to website Lucky Generation Gamers Podcast, the top Street Fighter player will be in Kuwait for the "Umehara Daigo Exhibit
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Updates to Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War II®have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include: Balance Changes Chaos Plaguemarine Champion - Breath of Nurgle heal increased from 140 to 190 for the Plag
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If there was a significant problem with fleet-management game Gratuitous Space Battles , it was that it was almost too gratuitous. There were a lot of space battles, with nothing to link or contextualise them. To fix this black hole in the space-time of his creation, Cliff “Posit
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior developer City Interactive has licensed Crytek's CryENGINE3 for two new games. The Polish developer offered no details as to what those games might be, but expect a release for both of them in the "next couple of years". Sniper: Ghost Warrior, despite being
Read articleIt's PopCap week here on PCGamer.com, kicking off with the first juicy details of Bejeweled 3. And as a special gift to those signed up to our site, we're giving away 10,000 copies of Bejeweled 2 - usually £14.99. All you have to do is be a registered member of our site at around
Read articlePopCap Games are the creators of Bejeweled, Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies, each of them one of the biggest and most lovable games on PC. When casual and social games are reaching ever larger audiences and their developers are getting a bad reputation for poor design practices, ho
Read articleThis weekend together with our friends at Fatshark we are offering you the Frontiers Free Weekend. Shattered Horizon and Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West will both be free to play and half-price to buy on Steam all weekend. We will also be launching the Frontiers Pack, a bun
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PopCap have just announced Bejeweled 3, the first proper sequel to the gem-swapping match-three juggernaut since 2004. It has new gems! Also, some kind of "Quest" mode, a "Zen" mode where you can customise the game with "ambient sounds and binaural beats" to help you relax and, i
Read articleThe launch trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops is here and 'death from above' seems to be the theme. Stealth planes cruise overhead, attack helicopters annihilate jungles, and men jump away from the explosions in slow motion to the sounds of 'Gimme shelter' by the Rolling Stones.
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Update : UKIE has released sales figures for the top 10 games. These show that leader Fable III sold 128,895 copies since launch on Friday - 6000 more than Fable II managed. That makes Fable III the 13th biggest Xbox 360 launch ever. Halo: Reach, remember, is the largest. Fable I
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