Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Bless map editors. They make wonderful things possible—wonderful things that normally couldn't exist. MP1st brings our attention to Youtube user ShadowZack , who took it upon himself to recreate a few famous maps in Far Cry 3. These maps hail from franchises like Call of Duty, Ba
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Tropico 4: Vigilante DLC , all new content for Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition is Now Available on Steam! People on the island know him as El Presidente, their absolute ruler. Little they suspect that he is also the Masked Avenger, the mysterious dashing rogue that wages war aga
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Sometimes people tell lies on the Internet. That's no news if you've spent any time on a computer, where finding the truth is no simple task. Pranksters on the web make things up all the time. But last week, we saw something rather uncommon even for the Internet's standards: an i
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RAGE: The Scorchers™ , all new content for RAGE is Now Available on Steam! Battle an all-new maniacal bandit clan, wreak havoc with new brutally efficient weapons and explore undiscovered areas in RAGE’s new official add-on pack, RAGE: The Scorchers™. Fight alongside new allies t
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Speaking to The PA Report, Far Cry 3's lead writer Jeffrey Yohalem has talked about his frustration at the critical and public reaction to the game's story. In fairness to his position, my own reaction was "oh yeah, there's a story." I've been distracted by all the outpost cleari
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Initially, Mass Effect incorrectly (and embarrassingly ) got the blame for the tragic Sandy Hook school shooting. Now, British tabloids are picking up the "played video games" angle to single out Call of Duty and Dynasty Warriors . Today's morning edition of The Sun carries this
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The Black Mesa mod is a remarkable accomplishment, remaking Half-Life in the Source engine, and now a mapper building upon their work has remade another slice of Valve history. Black Mesa: Uplink remakes HL's classic Uplink demo, which curiously for a demo was a new slice based u
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has received the patch treatment, with a long list of changes and amendments ushered in including collision and clipping detection tweaks, faster loading times for some users, and a long list of balance changes. According to the patch notes, which were p
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Remember Uplink? (No, not that Uplink.) Valve called its original demo for Half-Life "Uplink" in 1999. It took place during Gordon Freeman's journey through the spooky Lambda Core, but Valve eventually cut the content, later repackaging it as a separate demo. Black Mesa: Uplink r
Read articleNext June, Japanese collectible company Kotobukiya will be releasing this 12.5" statue of Isaac Clarke, as he appears in the upcoming Dead Space 3 . He looks... well, pretty amazing. Not to mention warm, all tucked up in that nice fluffy jacket. The lighting effects you see come
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Sadly, it won't make the holiday shopping season, but toy company NECA's replica Half-Life 2 gravity gun will be available for purchase next Spring. It's 1:1 scale, and as you can see from the prototype below, lights up as well. Since this is the same company behind the replica P
Read articleLambent Stew's free, web-based Steam Time Analysis tool laid bare my backlog of shame by breaking down time spent (or not spent) on each of my library's games like some sort of cold, ruthless PowerPoint presentation. The breadth of information provided is quite impressive. Over e
Read articleIn what's becoming a Christmas tradition, I'm sitting down today to round up what I think were the year's best video game trailers. And by best trailers, I mean quite literally, the best trailers. I don't give a damn how representative they were of the finished product, or how go
Read articleA SpellForce 2 - Faith in Destiny update has been released which includes the following. Patch v2.26 =========== + Coop/Free Game Mode Added - Resume campaign button was shown up if savegames from SF2/DS are present - Domination menu was shown when return from skirmish game - Sev
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I noticed something curious while playing Far Cry 3, something I hadn't really thought about before. Sometimes, my map would denote a treasure located inside a small, dark cave. I'd go into the cave, and I'd immediately start breathing harder and feeling panicky—enough that I did
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Outspoken Activision CEO Bobby Kotick was recently the subject of an extensive profile by The New York Times which charted his rise as the head of one of the most prolific publishers in the industry. As part of the interview, Kotick said the decision to fire Infinity Ward co-foun
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Q.U.B.E. is now available on the Mac! Set in a mysterious and abstract sterile environment, Q.U.B.E. (Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion) is a first-person puzzle game that challenges players to navigate each level by manipulating coloured cubes that surround them. There's li
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We've celebrated the realistic fake war-waging of Arma 2 community ShackTac in our Realism Theater posts this year. We admire ShackTac's "Serious Fun" approach to playing Arma 2: even outside the context of mil-simming, it's inspiring to watch a bunch of people invested in each o
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SpellForce 2 - Faith in Destiny Scenario 1: Flink's Secret Diary , all new content for SpellForce 2: Faith in Destiny is Now Available on Steam. For the first time in SpellForce, you play not as the hero to tell his story, but rather as one of the NPCs. The stories of the scenari
Read articleThe folks at Gearbox are rarely slackers when it comes to downloadable content, and so far Borderlands 2 has mostly borne that out. We've known for a little bit that the next batch of DLC will be called "Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt" but beyond that, details have been scarce. R
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