Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Last week I got a first look at Payday 2, the sequel to Overkill’s heist-themed co-op shooter. The presentation offered a hands-off run through of the game’s features and a two-man mission, played twice, in very different styles - both of which proved extremely exciting. It was c
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You, the grizzled PC gamer in the corner, you remember diving around with akimbo pistols in that Half-Life mod in The Good Old Days, don't you? No, not Action Half-Life. No, you big silly, not The Opera. Gosh, no, not Matrix Half-Life. You know, The Specialists! Some of the folks
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After spending many eerily silent ages in the dark, Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs is finally just about ready to see the light of day. Games, however, don’t usually stew in the boiling juices of development because it feels nice. (That’s why I do it, but shush, don’t tell anyone.)
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The Onslaught Packs , three new content packs for Blacklight: Retribution , are now available on Steam! The Bronze Pack will unlock everything that has been released in the past year for the game for 7 Full Days The Silver Pack contains permanent versions of all receivers, gear,
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Endless Space has received its fourth free add-on pack, Virtual Awakening. The update, launched in celebration of selling 300,000 copies of the 4X turn-based strategy, adds a bunch of new features unlocked during last year's free weekend. The more people who participated in that
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Well, this is slightly unexpected. Ron Gilbert’s always kinda done his own thing, but sharing a colorful roof of pure, shining whimsy with partner in pirate-y crime Tim Schafer just sort of, you know, made sense. It is, however, like they say: all good things must come to an end.
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Beginning Wednesday, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will begin offering "personal customizations" on the Xbox 360, the game's community manager said this morning. The items don't affect gameplay—they're items like weapon skins, targeting reticles, and player calling cards. Moreover, t
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Weaselhammer of Vector Sigma Creations is the very talented person behind this magnificent-looking replica of the M-12 Locust submachine gun from Mass Effect 2 and 3 . The overall creation process took about three months, during which Weaselhammer crafted the model piece by piece
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Weaselhammer of Vector Sigma Creations is the very talented person behind this magnificent-looking replica of the M-12 Locust submachine gun from Mass Effect 2 and 3 . The overall creation process took about three months, during which Weaselhammer crafted the model piece by piece
Read articleLegendary game designer Ron Gilbert has announced his departure from Double Fine Productions, following the release of The Cave. Gibert made the announcement in a blog post earlier today, posting that there are "so many games left to be designed". He's currently working on "anoth
Read articleJoining the distinguished annals of TV-stations-that-have-mistaken-videogames-with-reality is Denmark's TV2. The station last week used an image from Assassin's Creed during a report about Syria, which is both a testament to Ubisoft's graphical prowess and also... well, pretty un
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I'm probably not alone in thinking pirates deserve more beyond thick accents, Johnny Depp, and one seriously overrated Disneyland ride. After all, they're one-third of geekdom's holy trinity along with zombies and ninjas, and Sid Meier's Pirates is perhaps their best adventure on
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Midnight on the beat, and I could tell this city has an old heart. Homicide watch wasn't an exciting job—murder stopped becoming a punchline for me long ago—but it kept me on the streets, and that's where you go if you want both a lesson in personality and how to avoid a fender-b
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Release Notes for 3/11/2013 - Fixed the end match map vote sometimes selecting the wrong map as winner - Fixed a crash in dedicated servers related to the end match map vote - Players can no longer cast a vote outside the range of maps in the end match map vote list
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Tomb Raider wears its cinematic aspirations on its grimy, blood-soaked sleeve. In the mode of Uncharted , this is a game that very much wants to be a movie—its 'camera' is a constant companion, never missing the opportunity for a close-in tension shot or a jumbled, handheld actio
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StarCraft II 's expansion pack, Heart of the Swarm , is already out in some parts of the world , and it's launching tomorrow in North America. To celebrate, let's take the opportunity to examine more than 20 years' worth of real-time strategy history in today's Show Us gallery, a
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Before you reach for your keyboard-shaped axe in fury, know that Avalanche co-founder Linus Blomberg is specifically referring to the next-gen console's 8GB of GDDR5 RAM. That's an impressive leap for living-room gaming, especially since DDR5 system RAM isn't yet available for PC
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There's a moment in Tomb Raider where you get a crucial piece of gear required to finish the game. But a bug that can screw things up the first time you try to use the Rope Ascender is stopping some people from progressing through Tomb Raider . Lara needs to get that crate to sla
Read articleWhat we've learned from Arma 3's development so far is that Greek islands with a heavy military presence and snap-happy tourists are not a happy combination. Luckily for budding travel photographers, Bohemia Interactive's developers have suffered so you don't have to, and you can
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Competition demands dominion. Dominion begets power. And, if you're serious about keeping that power, chances are power weapons come into the picture. Power weapons are tools that allow us to deal immense damage. Think stuff like sniper rifles, or even vehicles like tanks. These
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