Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
In the midst of a blockbuster fall season, one indie title managed to stand out. Swedish developer Frictional Games' Amnesia: The Dark Descent is recognized as one of the few genuinely scary games ever made. While many survival horror games try to scare audiences with zombies
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Indian films are famous for their dance numbers. Tamil super hero flick Velayudham has them in spades. It also has what looks either Ezio or Altair from the Assassin's Creed games—make that, really looks. Velayudham follows Indian actor Vijay as a milkman who becomes a vigilante
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Based in the UK, Georgi "Calader" Simeonov works at Splash Damage, meaning he had a hand in the lovely "nothing but blue skies" art design of multiplayer shooter Brink . So we'll be showing you some of that, but also some of his other stuff on titles like Sony's MMO Star Wars Gal
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To celebrate next week's tenth anniversary of Grand Theft Auto III 's release, Rockstar has announced a mobile port of the classic open-world murder simulator, coming to select iOS and Android devices. A 1:6 scale doll of the game's star Claude is also in the works, for the colle
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Prop builder Zander Brandt figured the world was short on replica M-29 Incisor rifles from Mass Effect 2 . So he went and made one. The Incisor is one of the sniper rifles available in the game, and for most of it was my go-to weapon; it's the one that fires three shots at once.
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Because Lord only knows Isaac Clarke could do with some more colour and music from time to time. Daft Space 2? You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected] . You can also find him on Twitter , Facebook , and lurking around our #tips page.
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At the end of August, we brought you Mari0 , which showed everyone how our favorite plumber would navigate the standard World 1-1 with aid of Portal gun . It was pretty friggin' easy. Now the mod's developers are back to show us Mari0 as an actually challenging video game, applyi
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Memoir '44 Online is Now Available on Steam and Free to Play! This fun, easy-to-learn, wargame lets you relive all the greatest battles of World War II in quick, one-on-one multiplayer confrontations. The scenarios are short and varied, forcing you to adapt your skills to the tro
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Updates to Painkiller: Redemption have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: • Two new Single player maps (Unholy Stronghold, Small Church) • A new difficulty has been added: Slumber • Several bugf
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It's THQ Week! Save big from now until October 17th on games from THQ, and be sure to check back every day for more great deals! Today only, save 75% on Red Faction titles! Offer ends on Thursday at 10am PST. Or, pick up the THQ Hit Collection , a pack with your favorite THQ titl
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Xotic Update 1.3 Released Updates to Xotic have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Fix for PhysX related crash on launch affecting some players Fix for crash while loading levels if audio sample
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To developer Relic, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine represented a good first attempt at third-person action on console. Eurogamer's Space Marine review awarded 6/10. "Was it our best work?" mulled producer Andy Lang when quizzed by Eurogamer. "It was our best console work." "I'm p
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Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, has been released in the US, and has a snazzy trailer to celebrate. Off the Record is an unusual concept, essentially a 'Director's Cut' of Dead Rising 2 that replaces protagonist Chuck Greene with Frank West, who starred in the original Dead Rising
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After failing miserably to conquer All Of Japan on my first attempt , I’ve been back for more. And then for some more. And just then, five minutes ago, a little bit more. I don’t think I’ll ever be the shogun but I have experienced enough of the highs and lows of the family feuda
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Please vote for our game Zeit² we are nominated for the best German developed console game 2011 "Deutscher Entwicklerpreis" Everyone that votes for us and comments at our Facebook page can win a free copy of the game for Xbox 360 or Steam! Brightside-Games at Facebook
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Please vote for our game Zeit² we are nominated for the best German developed console game 2011 "Deutscher Entwicklerpreis" Everyone that votes for us and comments at our Facebook page can win a free copy of the game for Xbox 360 or Steam! Brightside-Games at Facebook
Read articleComing up in the next patch: the Nuclear Dawn Source SDK for developers.
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Coming up in the next patch: the Nuclear Dawn Source SDK for developers.
Read articleThe first Prototype game turned pretty much turned New York City into a giant, smoking pile of rubble infected with genetic abominations. So, of course, it makes sense to hype up next year's sequel at the Big Apple's premier nerdfest. Developers Radical Entertainment will be unve
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The Baconing was a load of old nonsense, which suits me just fine. I like nonsense. The first time I realised words were among my favourite things I was but a young pup reading a giant Edward Lear tome and being struck about the face by seemingly infinite invention. But Edward Le
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