Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Of course you remember Aliens, right? Who could forget Danny Glover kicking ass on the Discovery One, Sarah Hamilton shouting, “That’s how they git you. They’re under the goddamned ground!” Ah, the memories. John’s spent the day ploughing through Aliens: Colonial Marines , so he
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I beat Dead Space 1 . I nearly beat Dead Space 2 , but I got so frustrated with one section near the end in which I was trapped in a room with regenerating Necromorphs that I shelved it. (This was after the amazing "needle/eye" bit.) I come from a long history of loving sci fi, i
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Yep, I'm as surprised as you. This showed up on the official Mass Effect Facebook page yesterday , and obviously coincides with Toy Fair in New York this week. But Hasbro has said nothing about the "Galaxy at War" edition of Risk . BioWare says the game is on shelves in the fall.
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Three new songs are Now Available for Rocksmith ! Play "London Calling", "Should I Stay or Should I Go", and "The Guns of Brixton" by The Clash on any electric guitar or bass. Each song includes a new authentic tone accessible in AMP mode.
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Just as we're all getting used to free-to-play as a payment model, Hi-Rez announce that they're using Tribes: Ascend to trial an entirely new way of purchasing digital entertainment. It's called "buying a game with some money". It'll never catch on. Hi-Rez's Todd Harris made the
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There's been some heated discussion as to whether Proteus —Ed Key and David Tanaga's award-winning lo-fi ambient exploration game —can be called a game. All the back-and-forth boils down to just so much fooferaw . But, if you want to nail Proteus down to a more restrictive, AAA-c
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As the sun sets over the city of Utrecht, ISOTX artists are still hard at work. While the rest of the country is going home to their families, we are still making a new game for you! Curious what we’ve been doing? Check out this sneak peek video of one of our artists at work! And
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As the sun sets over the city of Utrecht, ISOTX artists are still hard at work. While the rest of the country is going home to their families, we are still making a new game for you! Curious what we’ve been doing? Check out this sneak peek video of one of our artists at work! And
Read articleEdit – Sega Senior Producer Matthew J. Powers has said of this allegation that “Absolutely not, the game has been developed by Gearbox Software. Other studios helped Gearbox on the production of single and multiplayer.” Which doesn’t really clear anything up, but there you go. By
Read articleThings that would happen in the best of all possible worlds: - Cats would empty their own litter trays - Israel and Palestine would mutually agree “screw it, let’s have a fancy dress party instead” - People would read the article before commenting - McVities would bring back Marm
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Last night, my review briefly touched on the disappointing enemy AI in Aliens: Colonial Marines— often, Xenos would run straight at you. According to this video by PCGamesN , it gets worse. You can straight up run through the aliens, who forget about you once you're far enough (a
Read articleWhen you speak with someone in Las Vegas, the topic of conversation naturally shifts to Vegas-themed things. In the case of Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart, that meant Star Wars , of course. Oh, and I guess Fallout: New Vegas . During a DICE chat that lasted innumerable moons, mont
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BAFTA have released the nomination shortlist for the upcoming 2013 round of their Video Game awards. PS3 exclusive Journey tops the nomination leaderboard - it's up for eight categories. But Telltale's The Walking Dead and Ubisoft's Far Cry 3 aren't far behind, receiving nods in
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On the right side you've got RedSpell's What's the Word? , a picture-based word game that's been tearing up the free iPhone charts for several weeks. On the left, LOTUM GmbH's What's the Word? , a picture-based word game that arrived on iTunes on February 4. Guess which one is at
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Late in Colonial Marines' campaign you find yourself fighting through the xenomorph-haunted hallways of Hadley’s Hope accompanied by a smartgun-toting jarhead called O'Neal. He’s the model of a shooter sidekick: a bottomless well of bullets and exposition who always knows what th
Read articleRaceRoom Racing Experience is Now Available on Steam on Free-To-Play. RaceRoom Racing Experience is a Free2Race game that connects fans of racing around a game, motorsports portal and online store combined and seamlessly built into one platform making it More Than a Game™. Driver
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Aliens: Colonial Marines is Now Available on Steam. You and your friends are the deadliest killers in the galaxy. Another glorious day in the Corps. Buckle up, soldier! Welcome to Aliens™: Colonial Marines. Created by Gearbox, the critically acclaimed and fan-favourite developers
Read articlePrimordia has been updated to version 1.2! The update includes the following fixes: -Game no longer autosaves during the ending credits and ending cutscenes -Fixed several kiosk glitches -Implemented a "how to play" button on Options menu -Fixed "We're All In This Together" &
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A game based on existing media has three options. It can strive to be faithful to the original work, privileging authenticity above all else. It can try to do its own thing, using the original work as merely a jumping off point for something else. Or, it can try to find a balance
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