Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
The mall cops in the iTunes App Store today finally ejected Armed Heroes Online , a Chinese-published MMO, sold only in iTunes' Canadian store, which evidently stole most, if not all, of its audiovisual assets from the PC dungeon-crawling hit Torchlight . The takedown came about
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Assassin's Creed III is going to introduce a lot of changes to the series. It will feature a new setting, a new time period and a new protagonist. And one of the biggest changes has yet to be fully explored—the game's soundtrack will be crafted by an entirely new composer. Jesper
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Enhancements - Commander building placement now remembers rotation used for last placed building when placing another. - Customizations of radialmenu.txt will no longer be overwritten on updates. - Added mapping support for nd_info_sonic_turret_ct. Fixes - Fixed sniper no-rezoom-
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Copycatting isn't a crime. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Good artists copy, great artists steal. I did a bit of a double-take when I first heard about The War Z, a zombie survival MMO-shooter with deep similarities to Day Z, the almost 700,000-strong Arma 2 mod. Bu
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Sure, it's fairly cheap and easy to make yourself a Portal -themed mirror with some paint and a quick trip to IKEA. But what really makes a portal fun isn't just its blue or orange halo but rather, that trippy infinity effect. For that, you need two mirrors. And some LEDs. Or if
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There was a Steam update at some point and the old group chat room is unjoinable. Rejoin group chat for the new hotness!
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There was a Steam update at some point and the old group chat room is unjoinable. Rejoin group chat for the new hotness!
Read articleWell, that didn’t take long. Someone’s announced a persistent survival shooter-MMO set in a zombie apocalypse. It has permadeath (as an optional “Hardcore Mode”). It has PvP and PvZ folded into the same experience. It has a hunger mechanic. It has a dude in a baseball cap. The Wa
Read articleThe Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store! Today's Daily Deals Include: Witcher Franchise Sniper Elite V2 Krater Fallout: New Vegas Amnesia: The Dark Descent Alan Wake Franchise Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition Gratuitous Tank Battles Indie Bundl
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Version 1.0.10 GENERAL - Increased droprate for purple items - Most Ranged enemies will now attempt to move away from player Soldiers - Added navigation functionality to the world minimap - Changed tooltip for Intelligence on Character Screen - Fixed a bug where ALT loot was allo
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Do you have a question about Assassin's Creed III ? Would you like Alex Hutchinson, the creative director of this fall's big game, to answer it? Ask your question in the box below. Hutchinson will be answering the best ones starting at 5pm ET. We've got him here for a half hour.
Read articleIf there's one man who knows from originality in video games, it's Viktor Antonov. He's the man responsible for the oppressive, beautiful art design of City 17 in Valve's masterpiece Half-Life 2 . One of the main reasons that I'm excited about the upcoming Dishonored is that Anto
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It's been four years since the first Fieldrunners the hit tower defense game which was what everyone with an iPhone seemed to have long before Angry Birds took over. Subatomic Studios has finally created a sequel, a rather large game that makes the first one look like a tech demo
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I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Endless Space pre-release and I’ve been dabbling and preparing to tell you wot I think of the launch version. In the meantime, I fired up my interstellar communicator and beamed some messages to the development team, specifically Mathieu Girard C
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You can now get Tiny & Big: Grandpa's Leftovers for $5.99 (40% off regular price). The soundtrack edition is available for $8.39 - a real steal! The Flash Sale runs for another 6 hours from now, and closes at 10 a.m. PDT (7 p.m. CET).
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You can now get Tiny & Big: Grandpa's Leftovers for $5.99 (40% off regular price). The soundtrack edition is available for $8.39 - a real steal! The Flash Sale runs for another 6 hours from now, and closes at 10 a.m. PDT (7 p.m. CET).
Read articleFor many, "Fixes to prevent desynchronisation (desync) in multiplayer campaign modes" will be the highlight of the latest round of updates to Total War: Shogun 2. Syncing up a multiplayer campaign requires the PCs running each instance of the campaign to high five every now and t
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Changelog 1.13e: - fixed some equipment icons - fixed voiceovers triggered on relationship events for some mercs - fixed militia not showing correct weapon in some cases - tweaked target determination of ai-squads on worldmap to show some more variation
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The sinister sounding Darksiders II: Soul Harvest is more than just an iOS marketing tie-in that let's fans of all things dark and stalky unlock special goodies prior to the game's release next month. It's also how I imagine the anthropomorphic personification of the end of all t
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BioShock's Big Daddy enforcers look great, but they're stuck in the past. All that rust and brass, it's so 20th century! What they need is a makeoever, bring them up to 21st century standards. Artist Sean Bigham tackled the issue a few years back, and the results are surprisingly
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