Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Now that mysterious hidden achievements on Steam have all-but-confirmed that a DLC release is imminent for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, it got us wondering--what kind of DLC would we like to see? Judging by what’s already been revealed, it seems like a good bet that the first pack will i
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There are so many good games out this fall. So, so many. There's a type of video game for just about every type of video game player. But there is one thing missing: There's no vast, open-world role-playing game. Bethesda, scions of the vast open-world RPG, have dedicated this ye
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Many of us here at Kotaku are fans of Borderlands 2 's first downloadable content, Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty . The sand skiff is great, the new loot is poppin, and the bosses are super challenging. But as I played the new content on my PC, I began to notice a proble
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I enjoyed the new trailer for BioShock Infinite . It's the best look we've had in a while at a game that I've been looking forward to since 2010, when the first gameplay footage surfaced. It's not Booker that particularly intrigues me, or Elizabeth, or even the enemy types they f
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It's Halloween in Tyria, and the Mad King has returned. Starting today, all Guild Wars 2 players will log in to find a ton of new content in the MMO, from holiday-themed decorations to transformative costumes all the way up to whole new areas, mini-dungeons, and bosses. Some of t
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If Dishonored has put you in a stealthy mood, you might want to check out The Dark Mod, the ambitious total conversion that takes the sneaky spirit of the Thief games and splatters it all over Doom 3. As RPS note, the mod - which doesn't so much remake the original Thiefs (Thieve
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Pre-Purchase Bioshock Infinite now on Steam, and gain instant access to the Industrial Revolution ! What is the Industrial Revolution? A Flash-Based, Bioshock Infinite-Themed, Puzzle Game, Exclusively Available With Pre-Purchase! With the United States emerging as a world power,
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Positech's inspired tower defence/strategy game Gratuitous Tank Battles has just been given an expansion, which returns the tank-obsessed title to its World-Warring roots. The DLC, available for a modest £4.84, adds new American and German WWII units, plus a new single-player cam
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Searching as I do from time to time through the video game crossover wonderland that is FanFiction.net , I happened to turn off the mature story filter for a split-second, during which I encountered the raunchiest, steamiest Shadow the Hedgehog -meets- Borderlands story I've ever
Read articleWith Dishonored reactivating long-dormant stealth glands the world over, now seems a fine time to revisit perhaps its primary ancestor, the Thief games. Doom 3 total conversion The Dark Mod is a mightily ambitious attempt to recreate Thief – its mechanics if not its actual missio
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There's a new BioShock web game out today, from the people who made the pretty cool puzzle game Cogs . Would you like to play it? Then pre-order BioShock Infinite . Did you already pre-order BioShock Infinite ? Then cancel that pre-order and pre-order again. ( So says the officia
Read articleJoe Maduriera—comics artist and creative director on the Darksiders franchise— says he's leaving dev studio Vigil Games.
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Gratuitous Tank Battles returns to the beginnings of the war that has raged for more than two centuries with The Western Front expansion . Eight new maps form the terrain for a new singleplayer campaign, the first half of which limits technology to the metal monstrosities of 1914
Read articleAn advertisement in the official Borderlands 2 strategy guide says that the popular shooter series will come to iPhone and iPad by the end of October. The ad, first discovered by a Gearbox forum poster (and confirmed by Kotaku this morning), announces Borderlands Legends , an iOS
Read articleOne or more Assassin's Creed games a year plus Assassin's Creed comics, Assassin's Creed novels and Assassin's Creed animated shorts are not enough for Ubisoft, which remains anxious to create the thing that all great video games need: an official Hollywood-made movie. The latest
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Bioware have been talking about Dragon Age 3: Inquisition at the Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo over the weekend, as spotted by Kotaku and live tweeted by Dragon Age 3 producer Cameron Lee. The panellists revealed that we will definitely play as a human in Inquisition. "Ba
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Maybe your bandwidth sucks or memory storage space in your device of choice is at a premium. But if you haven't played Telltale's excellent Walking Dead games yet for the above reasons, the developer will be going to make it a bit easier for PS3 and Xbox 360 owners this winter. T
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Canadian artist Jeffufu , a big Guild Wars 2 fan, has been paying tribute to the game of late with some amazingly adorable pieces of fan art. We've got a Golem having a tea party. A Jackalope's field trip. And some Quaggans cuting up the joint. There's four images here, with more
Read articleWant a free copy of Hitman: Absolution, Far Cry 3 and Sleeping Dogs? As part of its Gaming Evolved program of working with game devs, AMD is bundling up free copies of some of the most exciting titles of the coming holiday season with its current generation of graphics cards. If
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