Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Square Enix and art group iam8bit have gone and done a thing . They've paid for a TV show based on first-person puzzler Quantum Conundrum , and it's going to be hosted by Kevin Pereira. It's called The Super Dimensional Quantum Learning's Problems and Solutions Gametime Spectacul
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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM) Added ConVars sv_rcon_maxpacketsi
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If you played and finished Episode 1, you probably noticed a screen at the end displaying where the choices you made stacked up to the rest of the world. We're tracking those decisions and more throughout the ongoing series and put together a video showing some of the choices mad
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If you played and finished Episode 1, you probably noticed a screen at the end displaying where the choices you made stacked up to the rest of the world. We're tracking those decisions and more throughout the ongoing series and put together a video showing some of the choices mad
Read articlePoxNora® Endless Wonder Legends: Customize your Endless Wonder battlegroup with all new legendary content – master your faction and dominate your opponents in tournaments, single player and pvp play. • 8 new runes available • 1 new 150k gold rune available About the Game PoxNora
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When you're conducting an interview, it's important that the venue be comfortable. You don't want your interview subject bothered by commotion, bad lighting, gunfire, or shambling, predatory corpses. Thursday morning I'll be playing Day Z with its creator and a few members of the
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And yet it is. This video by Michael Shanks (the same man behind that great Box-Art Brawl video from last week) depicts the high's and lows, mostly lows, of Mr. Max Payne's day-to-day life. Yes, it's a joke that's been done before. Perhaps too many times. And yet the execution he
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Hello, Dr. T'soni. Why are you looking at me that way? One Reddit user Nobody_home's cousin is apparently both a sculptor or prop artist and a Mass Effect fan. This recreation of Liara may not be pitch-perfect—she's hovering somewhere between her earlier, innocent archaeologist s
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version 1.013 ============= 1) Dog Tags and Supply Drops now come with explanatory tooltips. 2) Deployment icons now have extra tooltip data to explain supply trucks and current stock levels. 3) Removed redundant and confusing restock-timers for supply truck icons. 4) Battle mini
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The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by us here at Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used in the movie, and vice versa. By utilizing the hardw
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<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"> The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by us here at Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used i
Read articleToday's Deal: Save 66% off Avernum: Escape From the Pit ! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
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Spec Ops ‘ handsomely bearded writing lead, Walt Williams, talks about the personalities that make up Spec Ops: The Line’s team – both player and non-player characters – in a new development diary installment, which you can see below. Williams claims that the moral choices in the
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Warning: The video above is more than a year old. But I only saw it for the first time last week when Valve's Yasser Malaika and Leslie Reed used it in a presentation about Steam for Schools . I don't think Kotaku has ever posted this incredible interpretative Portal dance number
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My friends! Gather 'round the fire and prepare to hear an epic tale that spans the entirety of human history! I'm in the middle of chronicling the progress of my Celtic civilization in Civ V's new Gods & Kings expansion, with a new entry every Wednesday. In Part 1, I led my A
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Tribes: Ascend is Now Available on Steam! Tribes: Ascend is the world’s fastest shooter - a high-adrenaline, online multiplayer FPS with jetpacks, skiing, vehicles, and multiple classes. The classic shooter franchise Tribes has been played by well over 1 million people. With Trib
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My plan is to release a 7X game. eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, eXasperation, eXboyfriend, eXit ab urso actus. But until my great day reaches us, you’ll have to put up with just the four Xs, and as soon as the 4th July. That’s the date that’s just been put on Endless Spac
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JP LeBreton was the main designer on the planty bit of BioShock: Arcadia. He recently joined his friends from the Idle Thumbs podcast to play through some early sections of BioShock, including his own, and talk about how they were built and why. You can watch the whole thing on t
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I loved the Mass Effect 3 ending the way it was two weeks ago. It's a shame that many Mass Effect 3 fans didn't feel the same way. Editor's Note: What follows are thoughts on the ending of Mass Effect 3 , both before and after the newly-released Extended Cut DLC. Needless to say,
Read articleOld sprites never die, they just fade away and/or move inside indie games. Penny Arcade Adventures 3 - or, Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 - is full of old, not-dead sprites. The game is a nostalgic throwback to early 90s RPGs made by Cthulhu Saves the Wo
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