Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Developer Capcom Vancouver believes it has now quashed the cynicism surrounding Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, the Dead Rising 2 spin-off that re-imagines the game from Frank West's perspective. When Off the Record was announced in April many fans complained that it was a cynical
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EA has promised it won't force Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit developer Criterion Games to make a game every year. Instead, with its Need for Speed franchise EA is employing a two-pronged development strategy, alternating between games made by Guildford-based Criterion and Canadian
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"French", "progressive", "trance"--three words I love all combined in the music of Avanea on Radio this week. "Silentium" and "Dogs of War" are two six-minute songs we're featuring. I don't know much French, but from what I can tell on the biography, Avanea's been playing cello a
Read article"French", "progressive", "trance"--three words I love all combined in the music of Avanea on Radio this week. "Silentium" and "Dogs of War" are two six-minute songs we're featuring. I don't know much French, but from what I can tell on the biography, Avanea's been playing cello a
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Today's Deal: Save 50% off Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood ! 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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Some time on Saturday, as I was playing Duke Nukem Forever on my Xbox 360, I realized that in all the conversations I've had with people from Gearbox Software—the company that heroically salvaged this game from its decade-plus sink toward oblivion—no one ever said this game would
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A helicopter lands in a jungle glade and four wizards jump out. A vampire in aviator shades leans out of the chopper: “Oogle blurble barble ’Nam!” he says. The wizards, wearing helmets and flack jackets over their robes, nod to each other and charge off into the jungle. Magicka:
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Today's Deal: Save 50% off Nimbus ! 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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Every week, Richard Cobbett rolls the dice to bring you an obscure slice of gaming history, from lost gems to weapons grade atrocities. This week, who want some Wang? What? Nobody? Dang. How do you follow a hit game like Duke Nukem 3D? Obviously, you scale everything up. People l
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Changes: Lives/credits now behave consistently during gauntlet runs F9 no longer crashes game when attempting to record using FRAPS Lightning Bug crash fixed on Dark Sector Leaderboards now correctly save/display selected ships Final boss music replaced with fully-mastered versio
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STORM: Frontline Nation is now available on Steam*! Purchase before June 17th at 10AM Pacific Time and get 10% off! STORM: Frontline Nation revolutionizes the turn-based strategy genre with unbelievable strategic depth and a cinematic scenario. Command your troops through more th
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The developers at Way Forward, veterans of recent 3D remakes and sequels to games like Contra and A Boy and His Blob are turning BloodRayne , a 3D action game series about a sexy lady vampire that launched nine years ago, into a 2D action brawler. They're emphasizing blood over s
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Today's Deal: Save 50% off Zuma's Revenge ! 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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Added swim animations Added pickup objects with USE key like in HL2 Added sv_playerpickupallowed convar to disable player pickup on USE Fixed blood effect being overridden by mounted content Fixed panel positions being broken since last update Fixed loading some particles unneces
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We missed this amid the flurry of E3 announcements, but it's worth a mention. The Dungeon Siege 3 demo has been released. You can download it now from Steam. The 1.5GB trial will let you try out single player and, if you have two controllers, two-player local co-op. For an overvi
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Blues News have spotted an interview with DICE's Patrick Soderlund in which the dev gives a rough estimate for the length of the Battlefield 3 single player campaign. Speaking to Grey Viper, Soderlund said "I don't have a number for you... yet, 'cause the game is not done yet, an
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"We're not trying to make a Trek game." That's how director Steve Sinclair begins his E3 presentation of, well, his new Trek game. The ebullient Canadian is working at Ontario's Digital Extremes (currently also making The Darkness II) on a game tie-in for the next Star Trek movie
Read articleUpdate: that’s it for now, folks. I’ll try to do some more over the weekend. I must be honest and admit I don’t want to though. So far it’s a bizarre, often witless mess of scatty, wasted ideas, clunky writing and surprisingly little action. Here’s hoping it improves now I’m out
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