Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
There's a reason most indie games come out digitally. All that printing and packing and shipping costs a whole lot of money. And while the convenience of downloadable titles is nice, sometimes you want a physical memento of a game you really love. Edmund McMillen knows how you fe
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For an MMORPG like Guild Wars 2 , getting the game launched is just a small fraction of its development. The team needs not only to keep developing new content as time goes by, but also to be able to address bugs, security concerns, and balance in existing content as the game evo
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It's not often you spot a softly glowing sign warning of gravity-changing crystals in puzzle-platformers, but Vitrum fills that niche nicely. On the e-shelf today from developer 9head Games, the indie puzzle-platformer shuffles up the house that Portal built with an array of powe
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It seems like it hasn't been that long since we suffered through the emotional gauntlet of Telltale's Walking Dead Episode 3, but a tweet has burst from the earth with a rasping rattle to inform us that Episode 4 will be out... tomorrow. While I wouldn't even think of spoiling wh
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Gearbox finally revealed the tinkerable skill tree for the upcoming Mechromancer class. Go play ! The DLC will be available on October 16th, but you can learn more about the noob-friendly and hardcore-friendly skill trees that make her quite the versatile character class. Persona
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XCOM is back! And as you've probably realised from our XCOM review, it's brilliant, capturing everything we loved about the original game, but with lots of clever modern ideas thrown into the mix. The new game is different enough from the old one that even X-Com veterans could do
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It's getting increasingly rare that games offer a full range of graphics and interface options for PC players - and as Tom notes in his Dishonored review, Arkane's excellent stealth action game gets it right. We've noticed a lot of interest in exactly what the game allows you to
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Whereas most video games seek lucrative movie deals, EA is setting its sights for TV. DICE's Battlefield: Bad Company series will be turned into an "hour-long action comedy" executive produced by John Eisendrath (Alias). Sony Pictures and Happy Madison will be producing the serie
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Gaige's ECHO recording journeys continue today with a newly released episode by developer Gearbox Software. Today's digital journey reveals that Deathtrap got some upgrades: no legs, more hover. But not everyone shares Gaige's love for flying robots with laser beams attached to t
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Oh dear, it turns out it’s a first-person shooter with quick-time events and checkpoints after all. Move along, nothing to see here. No, no, rest assured Firaxis’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown is, like its 1993 predecessor X-COM: UFO Defense aka UFO: Enemy Unknown, a rich brew of turn-base
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After you're done reading the review, why not bone up on the alien threat with our massive XCOM: Enemy Unknown guide? And if you've already mastered such elementary earth-saving tactics, check out our XCOM Ironman video guide, for the best tips for survival in the game's hardcore
Read articleUbisoft asked for an Assassin's Creed III fan film. These three gents obliged. It took 139 takes, but the end result is more than worth watching. This impressive Rube-Goldberg-like machination takes the redcoats—over 8000 hand-painted figures—through fire, snow, a staircase wroug
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The next episode that continues Telltale's intriguing take on The Walking Dead is releasing tomorrow, the developer/publisher announced today. Well, sort of. PSN users get first dibs with its release tomorrow. Everyone else in NA will have to wait for Wednesday (shucks). From the
Read articleTwo vastly different, perhaps equally great games hit store shelves tomorrow, October 9th. And we've reviewed both. Dishonored : The Kotaku Review I would love to have been a fly on the wall during the pitch meeting for Dishonored . "Well, it's Deus Ex meets BioShock ," someone u
Read articleActivision has temporarily pulled the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer level 'Favela' from the map rotation following complaints that a quote attributed to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad was written on a texture used in a bathroom. As you may imagine, some took issue with
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This is a poster for a short film that's due out later this week. I'd hope it's not a romantic comedy, but then, with a name like that you can never be too sure. I almost wish it was. At least a Gordon Freeman rom com would be mercifully quiet . Just made this poster for this Val
Read articleOver the weekend, those playing Modern Warfare 2 began to notice that one of the series' most popular multiplayer maps, Favela, had disappeared. Why? Publishers Activision and developers Infinity Ward took the map off rotation after receiving complaints from Muslim gamers, who ha
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Red Sand, an ambitious Mass Effect prequel film shot by fans (but starring the official voice of Commander Shepard, Mark Meer), was finally released today. You can check it out above. We're still not at the point where most of these fan vids can look like professional TV shows ,
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