Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
An update patch for Shattered Horizon is now available. The game will update automatically. Shattered Horizon 1.2.1.28 This update makes several optimizations to engine code. Frame rates and general performance should improve noticeably particularly with low and mid range cards.
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Updates to Portal, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Engine Fixed fonts sometimes not displaying when the game is loaded
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Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Garry's Mod Added Extensions dialog Fixed Half-Life: Episode Two content showing as unavailable Added datapack Fixed PCallError ret
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The Half-Life 2 Collection and EVE Online: Tyrannis represent this week's latest additions to the Steam for Mac digital distribution platform, operator Valve has announced. The Mac editions of Valve's celebrated shooters Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Epis
Read articleHalf-Life 2 Games Deliver Cross Platform Cloud Support May 26, 2010 - The third round of Steam for the Mac launch titles are available now. This week's collection includes the Half-Life 2 (HL2) series of games ( Half-Life 2 , Episode One , and Episode Two ) and Eve Online: Tyrann
Read articleUpdates to Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Half-Life 2 Added support for Mac Added Steam Cloud support for save games A
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Following Monday's revelation of a May 26 release for the downloadable Xbox 360 edition of DOOM II, Nerve Software's enhanced port of id Software's classic first-person shooter sequel is now available through Xbox Live at 800 Microsoft Points / $10. On top of the content found in
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For two decades, people have been paid to make fun of Nintendo. These professionals are hired by big companies that either hate Nintendo or consider Nintendo to be semi-ridiculous. (Irony: These pros never laugh last.) Here are their finest works. We'll start with a recent exampl
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There'll most likely be a new Total War game unveiled at E3, but in the meantime, Sega is happy to release a new expansion for the recent Napoleon: Total War. It centres around the Peninsula Campaign, which is the fancy title given to the tussles between the Allies (Britain, Spai
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Updates to Bullet Candy have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Bullet Candy Fixed audio distortion on some Windows 7 systems
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Now you can command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. Purchase the Star Wars® Empire at War™: Gold Pack now! It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star
Read articleSEGA has announced an expansion for its strategy and warfare game Napoleon: Total War -- The Peninsular Campaign -- which will be released this summer exclusively through Steam on the PC. The expansion will sport "a brand new campaign map featuring 32 controllable regions divided
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Prince of Persia director Mike Newell tells Reuters that he's worried that the film is "a little homogeneous". Critics are already saying the film is a whitewash — filled with white actors. But is it, and are they correct? Throughout its history, Hollywood has hired white actors
Read articleValve has confirmed to Shacknews that this release includes Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and Half-Life 2: Episode 2. Gordon Freeman's epic adventure through City 17 will hit the Mac version of Steam sometime tomorrow. To tease this, Valve has released an homage trailer to
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Updates to Bob Came in Pieces have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: VERSION 1.4.1 - Fixed issues with parts being indicated as picked up. - Fixed leaderbords so the best time is being submitte
Read articleSo, the next Campaign for Napoleon: Total War will be in Sunny Spain . Top level features? New 32-region campaign map, a playable Spain and new agents (Priests, Guerrilla and the fancy-underwear-devotees of the Agent Provacteurs). You’ll find the full press-release below, which l
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