Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Revenge ain't easy. While playing Dishonored , an excellent new stealth-action game that's out today for consoles and PC, you might find yourself face-to-face with a pack of pistol-brandishing guards or surrounded by a swarm of hungry, plague-infested rats. Or maybe you just don'
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There's been glimpses of Crysis 3 's competitive online modes out there already, but this latest video gives a bit more detail on what's in store for the sc-fi threequel. The invisible predator aspect of Hunter Mode looks fun but it looks like the mech-jacking in the Crash Site M
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The Mass Effect fan film Red Sand has finally been released, with the recognizable voice of Commander Shepard. The short is set 35 years before the game series, and stars Mark Meer (voice of the Male Shepard) as Commander Jon Grissom, who is tasked with protecting ruins from terr
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Dishonored is now available on Steam in North America! Check the game page for the release time in your territory. Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively
Read articleXCOM: Enemy Unknown is Now Available on Steam. XCOM: Enemy Unknown will place you in control of a secret paramilitary organization called XCOM. As the XCOM commander, you will defend against a terrifying global alien invasion by managing resources, advancing technologies, and ove
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Comedy crew Mega64 are at their best when they're out in the wild harassing innocent bystanders with obscure video game jokes, so... yeah, this take on Remedy's Alan Wake is Mega64 at their best. Mega64: ALAN WAKE
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Today's reason why mods are the greatest thing in all of PC gaming: a small team of fans has turned space strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire into a Mass Effect experience. Mass Effect - Dawn of The Reapers is a big mod for Sins that doesn't just add Mass Effect units and techno
Read articleDon't you just love having a pet? In the first Borderlands you could satiate your need for a cuddly companion by playing as Mordecai, the sniper expert who was always accompanied by Bloodwing. Depending on the skill tree you chose, Bloodwing's abilities ranged from deadly to unfa
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Place these paddles firmly on your chest and look below to get your end-of-day gaming news fix applied directly to your circulatory system. Dawn of the Reapers is bringing Mass Effect's most notable starfaring conflict to Sins of a Solar Empire, and The Ship's developers are look
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More artwork leading up to Wednesday's Art/Anim reddit AMA. I added some of Holly's early circuit board concepts
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More artwork leading up to Wednesday's Art/Anim reddit AMA. I added some of Holly's early circuit board concepts
Read articleSpeaking to PCGamesN, Tripwire Vice President Alan Wilson said the exclusion of modding tools from accessible genres -- most notably shooters -- is a choice they "really can’t wrap our heads around." "Why would you stop people from modding your game?" he asked. "Why would you pre
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There's a reason most indie games come out digitally. All that printing and packing and shipping costs a whole lot of money. And while the convenience of downloadable titles is nice, sometimes you want a physical memento of a game you really love. Edmund McMillen knows how you fe
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For an MMORPG like Guild Wars 2 , getting the game launched is just a small fraction of its development. The team needs not only to keep developing new content as time goes by, but also to be able to address bugs, security concerns, and balance in existing content as the game evo
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It's not often you spot a softly glowing sign warning of gravity-changing crystals in puzzle-platformers, but Vitrum fills that niche nicely. On the e-shelf today from developer 9head Games, the indie puzzle-platformer shuffles up the house that Portal built with an array of powe
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It seems like it hasn't been that long since we suffered through the emotional gauntlet of Telltale's Walking Dead Episode 3, but a tweet has burst from the earth with a rasping rattle to inform us that Episode 4 will be out... tomorrow. While I wouldn't even think of spoiling wh
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Gearbox finally revealed the tinkerable skill tree for the upcoming Mechromancer class. Go play ! The DLC will be available on October 16th, but you can learn more about the noob-friendly and hardcore-friendly skill trees that make her quite the versatile character class. Persona
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XCOM is back! And as you've probably realised from our XCOM review, it's brilliant, capturing everything we loved about the original game, but with lots of clever modern ideas thrown into the mix. The new game is different enough from the old one that even X-Com veterans could do
Read articleIt's getting increasingly rare that games offer a full range of graphics and interface options for PC players - and as Tom notes in his Dishonored review, Arkane's excellent stealth action game gets it right. We've noticed a lot of interest in exactly what the game allows you to
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