Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
I chatted to Gas Powered Games' Chris Taylor and Microsoft Games' Danan Davis about their new free-to-play game Age of Empires Online. Chris also talks about making Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander, and Danan about making Rise of Nations and Rise of Legends. And everyone
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We knew that Metro: Last Light was happening back in April , after THQ registered the related URL. However, the official reveal of the Metro 2033 sequel has taken place today, along with a whole one screenshot (click on it to see it full size) and a teaser trailer. It’s off to po
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It was always going to happen, and now it has. The nature of a corporation is never to sit still and be content with its lot – it’s to forever look to ways to make more money from what it has. (If RPS had a scrap of sense, we’d have launched a couple of spin-offs by now, but a co
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Cryptic Studios has been acquired by the Chinese MMO maker Perfect World, reports Gamasutra . According to the report, the company paid approximately $50.3 million for the studio, and acquired a 100% equity interest in Cryptic. Atari had been looking to sell Cryptic recently, hav
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Ubisoft have kicked off a series of Assassin's Creed dev diaries in the run up to E3 with a fun look behind the scenes in the studio. The dev team on information lock down, but here are a few things that they do manage to confirm over the course of the video, spotted by VG247: "C
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They call it their flawed masterpiece. Released last year, 4A Games' Metro 2033 gave gamers a chance to experience a different sort of apocalypse, one untainted by Western views and culture. Metro 2033 was an apocalypse shaped by old world fears, and Russian ethos. Based on the n
Read article(I was going to title the post Gordon ‘The Body’ Freeman, but I figured people would just think it was porny fanfic). james Benson, the chap behind the splendid Dance Fortress video has gone for a rather different tack for his next project. He’s cut a new trailer for the original
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The trailer above confirms the long-rumoured Call of Duty premium subscription service. Call of Duty Elite is set to launch alongside Modern Warfare 3. It will add social networking features like Facebook integration, video sharing, friends lists, groups, competitive leaderboards
Read articleOh, old man Company of Heroes, so good to see you again. Pull a comfy chair up to the fire and tell us another war story. It must hurt, having seen your younger, free to pay brother pass away so unexpectedly last year, but at least we’ve still got you. And what’s that? You’re not
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Cryptic Studios - creator of City of Heroes, Star Trek Online and Champions Online - has a buyer: Chinese MMO outfit Perfect World. Perfect World paid $50.3 million (£30.4 million / 35 million) for Cryptic. That's 55 per cent more than Atari paid for Cryptic in 2008 - $27.5 mill
Read articleThe day has come: Activision has finally introduced Plan B. Plan B is much like Plan A, in that it also involves making an absolute crapton of money out of Call of Duty. This time, it’s called Call of Duty Elite, and it’s a social networking, clan-arranging, video-sharing, stat-a
Read articleAs far as short nicknames go, hers must be on of the shortest. Going by the frisky sounding "H", this cosplayer focuses her attention primarily on one thing: games made in Osaka. Her cosplaying efforts breathe life into characters appearing in titles from Platinum Games, such as
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Hunted: The Demon's Forge is now available on Steam! As you travel deep within the world of Kala Moor, you will use a variety of deadly weapons, powerful spells, and cover tactics to face down wave after wave of vicious enemies. It will take the combined efforts of two great warr
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The Fallout MMO, which has been chugging along for a while now with seemingly little progress made , is now in danger of going under completely as the game's developers stare down the barrel of a rusty, post-apocalyptic gun. Interplay, which has been around for decades, is a few
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-Various Editor bugs fixed -Fixed problem with lights being placed when uploading levels -Enter the Unknown Now playable (Randomly generated chapter in Super Meat World based on difficulty) -Recommended Tab with past featured chapters now in Level Portal section of Super Meat Wor
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Updates to Bullet Candy have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Bullet Candy Fixed mouse cursor not being displayed in menus on some ATI cards (added a cursor image) Added a games played counter
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Fixes Compatibility issue with computers having more than 2 CPU cores Automatically disables shadows when incompatibility is detected, thus allowing the game to run. Improved compatibility detection. Bug in scenario 12 that occurs in the Hydro Shop.
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Crytek's CryEngine 3 technology, which we've seen most recently in the company's own Crysis 2 , is the driving force behind a $57 million project from the US Army aimed at teaching its soldiers how to fight. While virtual battlefields have long been a staple of military training,
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To make up for forcing you to listen to Miss Black, here's a gameplay video to a track with a bit more bite! Insane level with 200% visual feedback, no deaths (just). Get in! This is one of the music tracks built in the game. Enjoy!
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