Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Next 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
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It'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
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This 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
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The 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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Welcome to Winter Voices' official group! We are thrilled to share our game with the extended Steam family and are looking forward to seing a thriving community here! Go ahead, don' be shy, feel free to share here your feelings, comments, rants, advice, tricks and —hopefully— tel
Read articleWelcome to Winter Voices' official group! We are thrilled to share our game with the extended Steam family and are looking forward to seing a thriving community here! Go ahead, don' be shy, feel free to share here your feelings, comments, rants, advice, tricks and —hopefully— tel
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ARMA 2: PMC preview of terrific automatic shotgun: * discuss while waiting for additional info about more goodies ;)
Read articleARMA 2: PMC preview of terrific automatic shotgun: * discuss while waiting for additional info about more goodies ;)
Read articleThe week-long THQ sale continues on Steam today, this time offering discounts on the Dawn of War franchise (Ed. Note: This particular sale runs until November 1) . Both the original Dawn of War and its sequel--conveniently dubbed Dawn of War 2--as well as all expansions for the R
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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 performance issues and memory leaks related to scoreboard display. Fixed long-standing bug
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This week, on a very special episode of the PC Gamer Podcast...Josh returns from BlizzCon to tell us about Diablo III's Demon Hunter class. We share our spoiler-free experiences in Fallout: New Vegas (also, how is Dan already on his third playthrough). Evan tells us why Tribes de
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Both Gears of War 2 and Blur are celebrating Halloween by offering all gamers extra multiplayer XP this weekend. XP in all of Gears of War 2's multiplayer modes will rocket to 31 times the standard amount. There's also a special chainsaw massacre edition of Horde planned. Lancer-
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