Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Having completed Saints Row: The Third , I’m the Earth’s most qualified person to tell you all about it. Having already detailed a great many elements of the game in two recent previews , below I take on the task of explaining why such an excessively immature game is in fact quit
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At first glance, the new Assasin's Creed looks like the last two, just in a new city. Not quite. Let me show you. Assassin's Creed Revelations introduces some excellent tweaks and new ideas into the franchise's formula. I captured some of the best today from my PlayStation 3 copy
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We were overwhelmed by Borderlands - once we got past the initial levels and finally clicked into the bizarre, nine-toed genius that merged FPS and RPG with such gleeful disregard. It’s a hard act to follow, but developers Gearbox are aiming to go above and beyond the original wi
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With everybody from Mario to Saints Row scoring perfect 100s from game reviewers this season it's good to see a big-name title that bucks the trend. I suppose that doesn't apply if you're Ubisoft. The Ezio saga finally comes to a close in Assassin's Creed Revelations , the third
Read articleThe GTA V trailer provoked a lot of intrigue here at PC Gamer. Are characters from other GTA games going to make appearences? Will it be a retro setting, or will it, like IV, take place in the modern day? Will there be a poorly optimised PC mission where you have to awkwardly pil
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This charming foul-mouthed hardcore gaming mom helps to elucidate some of the problems we all stumble across while playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 online. Some weapons, she points out, are a little overpowered. The game allows you to transition to the scope view on a gun a
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With Team Fortress 2 items appearing in Saints Row, it was only a matter of time before the reverse also became true. Now Joystiq have spotted a post on the TF2 blog that reveals new TF2 items for those that pre-order Saints Row: The Third over steam. The bonuses take the form of
Read articleGameplay-wise, the Max Payne titles get remembered for a few things: bullet time, the iconic shootdodge and using painkillers to refresh health. But things have changed since we last saw the hardboiled cop in Max Payne 2 eight years ago. Rockstar knows this and is tweaking the Pa
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Modern Warfare 3 publishers Activision have been banging on about how their latest face-shooter has made more money than the GDP of a small country - but it seems it’s shifted fewer units than its predecessor, Call of Duty: Black Ops. According to Eurogamer, Modern Warfare 3 has
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As reported on IGN, Studio head of Sledgehammer Games, Glen Schofield isn't happy with the way Modern Warfare 3 is getting treated on Metacritic. It's currently got a metacritic of 82. That's a reasonable average, sitting just above our Modern Warfare 3 review score. Glen was mor
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With the regularity of a flip of the calendar page, November brings us another Assassin's Creed , the fourth major console game in the series in four years. This year's edition is Assassin's Creed: Revelations . More Ezio. More adventuring 500 years ago. More towers to climb and
Read articleIf you ask any Battlefield 3 player what the most annoying thing in the game is, they'd say tactical lights, but after that they'd probably say 'bloody mortar spam'. Thankfully MP1st have noted that DICE are looking into a fix. The problem is that mortars can be safely spammed fr
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Indie Royale's "Difficult 2nd Bundle" of indie gaming fun has been expanded, adding bonus goodies including soundtracks, downloadable content, and new games. As the offer approaches its final day, you can now "pay what you want" (above a minimum price) for a grand six games. The
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Red Orchestra 2 is the best murder simulator I’ve ever played. It’s not the best first-person shooter or multiplayer game, or even the best team-based multiplayer game. It’s certainly not the best World War II game, and its singleplayer is the worst I’ve played in years. But in t
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Payday is that bit in every heist movie since time began where the poo hits the fan. At some point, our gang of four criminals in clown masks were hunched over a table in a smoky room, working out their every move with mathematical precision. Now they’re trapped in a crumbling bu
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I remember storming the beaches of Normandy five years ago in one of CoD 2’s most tense and memorable levels. Yesterday in Black Ops I shot a zombie on the moon with a gun that made it vomit blood then explode. What the hell has happened to Call of Duty? Whatever our memories of
Read articleToday's Deal: Save 75% off all Alien Breed titles! 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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Updates to Jamestown have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: - Fixed a bug where the game was crashing at the beginning of levels for players with certain audio configurations - Fixed a bug wher
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Known Issues - Drones cannot be designed. Fixes - Many additions to the Defense Manager, which has now been renamed to Battle Manager. - Fixed a crash with weapons doing half a population damage. - Fixed a crash with the locust updating its turn. - Fixed crash in Starmap that cou
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