Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Pinball FX developer Zen Studios has jumped to Microsoft's defence after Super Meat Boy maker Team Meat savaged the Xbox 360 manufacturer. In a podcast published on Gamasutra , Team Meat recounted its difficult experience with Microsoft and doubted it would ever work with the com
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Ding dong, the witch is dead! As promised , Ubisoft have now removed the legitimate consumer-punishing always-on DRM from the disappointing PC port of their strategy/puzzle/sorta-god game From Dust. Let Steam auto-update it and the unpleasant eggy stench of a constant internet re
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UPDATE 2: Crysis costs 1600 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live and £15.99/$19.99 on PlayStation Network. Publisher EA describes the console download as a "modified and enhanced" version of the single-player campaign from Crysis 1. It also features optimized Nanosuit controls, fine-tun
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You there! Remember the parody video in which the likes of DLC references, object highlighting and iron sights from Human Revolution were added to the original Deus Ex, and how even-tempered everyone was about it? Well, now you can recreate that past-meets-present, JC/AJ mash-up
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You may know artist Jason Chan as the chap who helped design us a lovely t-shirt . Or who drew rad pictures of kids fighting zombies . You should know him, though, as a video game concept artist who's worked on games like BioShock 2 , Dead Space 2 , and Dragon Age: Origins . Chan
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Lots of video games claim to be scary. Amnesia , Dead Space , you name it, if it's dark and things jump out of closets at you, it's "scary". Don't let video game developers tell you what's scary. Let science . User experience studio Vertical Slice has conducted research into scar
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Two months after a console version of Crysis was spotted in a ratings database , Crytek has announced a "remastered" version of the original Crysis for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this October. Though Crysis 2 hit Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as well, the 2007 original
Read articleImpressive Grand Theft Auto IV mods are nothing new, but this one—which turns the fictional Liberty City into a very real, very beautiful New York City—is really impressive. OK, so here's what it does: First up, it replaces advertising and store signs with ones you'd actually fin
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Yes, but can your console run Crysis ? There's been talk of this happening for years (no surprise, given the fact the game is four years old!), but it's finally happening: PC benchmark Crysis is coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360. It'll be out next month (talk about short notice!), a
Read articleMen of War: Vietnam is now available on Steam! Men of War: Vietnam is a new chapter in the critically acclaimed series. The new, story-driven campaign lets you taste the explosive mix of the jungle, Hueys and rock-n-roll in 1968. Embark on breathtaking missions including an ambus
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Vault Boy, from a Fallout perk icon, graces Central Square, Cambridge, Mass., right between Harvard and M.I.T. Image submitted by Gus Wezerek.
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The March 2012 arrival of Max Payne 3 may be today's biggest Rockstar Games news, but fans of the original, Remedy Entertainment-developed game may delight in "a new way to enjoy the classic Max Payne ." Rockstar Games says that Max Payne will "receive the full HD treatment for m
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What would you like to see in a Borderlands 2 Collector's Edition? A box that opens up like a Crimson Lance chest? A psycho mask? Fake skaggy poo? A life-size rakk hive? That last one might be a little tough, but Gearbox Software is taking suggestions for what premiums Borderland
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From our blog : We’ve been tossing around the idea at Lunar giant of offering up free Delve Deeper DLC made by fans. Basically, it’ll work like this: We’ll set up a website with some loose criteria for what a map or relic should consist of, and hold a competition where fans can l
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From our blog : We’ve been tossing around the idea at Lunar giant of offering up free Delve Deeper DLC made by fans. Basically, it’ll work like this: We’ll set up a website with some loose criteria for what a map or relic should consist of, and hold a competition where fans can l
Read articleAct now and save 75% on Civilization V during the Weekend Deal! Become Ruler of the World by establishing and leading a civilization from the dawn of man into the space age: Wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies, go head-to-head with some of history’s greatest le
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The Deus Ex: Human Revolution DLC, the Missing Link, has gotten a trailer and some screenshots. The trailer depicts Adam Jensen getting pretty badly beaten up by his captors, having apparently failed to save some civilians, while the screens include an extreme close up of a myste
Read articleUpdates to From Dust have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: From Dust Title can be played in offline mode (no connection to the Internet is required after installing the patch) Save file is mov
Read articleChanges NOTE: mp_maxrounds has been limited to 1 to force the map to change when the round is over. This is a temporary change to overcome some of the problems with round reset (old structures appear ‘ghosty’ after a round reset). These issues will be fixed in the next update and
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