Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
The somewhat underwhelming in concept first DLC for Dishonored is, as we already knew , Dunwall City Trials. It’s a challenge map pack rather than an expansion containing more long-game assassinations or world-building. This leaves me a little cold in principle, but perhaps there
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There was something missing, in Mass Effect 3 . The game was filled with a hundred tiny details that paid homage to all the choices and deliberations I'd made in two previous games, and yet one thing sat unfinished. Aria T'Loak sat on the Citadel for all of Shepard's last crusade
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Super Hexagon is now available on Steam and is 33% off*! Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel. "This is the kind of game you’re going to pass off to your friends and say, 'You’ve gotta check this out.' It’s dangerously addictive." 9/10 -
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Updates to X3: Terran Conflict (3.2c) and X3: Albion Prelude (2.5.2) have been released. In both games, Chinese localization files have been updated. Localized achievements are now available for Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. The update 2.5.2 for X3: Albion
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Bethesda have just announced the first DLC for Dishonored, titled the Dunwall City Trials. It's a time-trial and score-attack challenge pack that, they claim, will put your combat, stealth and mobility skills to the test. The ten maps are set in the abstract world of the Outsider
Read articleFar Cry 3 features a varied and highly enjoyable arsenal—you'll use all the first-person shooter staples, from silenced sniper rifles to grenade launchers to my favorite, the silent Rambo bow. But as cool as these deadly tools are, the way the game describes them all is just as c
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Haha. Yeah, Garry knows what to do. I’ve posted videos of his Kinect experiments below, and you can see exactly why the infamously aberrant Half-Life 2 mod actually needs Kinect support by watching those. Readers with memories will recall that we talked to Garry about his plans f
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Fri, 11/23/2012 - 05:03 It's here! In celebration of UT's 13th birthday and UT3's 5th birthday, the community is releasing the 5th volume of CBP3, containing 1 character, 5 DM maps, 3 CTF maps, and 1 VCTF map for UT3. Check out the screenshots below (more on the content page) and
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Fri, 11/23/2012 - 05:03 It's here! In celebration of UT's 13th birthday and UT3's 5th birthday, the community is releasing the 5th volume of CBP3, containing 1 character, 5 DM maps, 3 CTF maps, and 1 VCTF map for UT3. Check out the screenshots below (more on the content page) and
Read articleHere's an odd one. One of my favorite games on Nintendo's new console is an interactive fireplace. It's an emotional , interactive fireplace. And it's the first console game I've played through without ever turning on the TV. Little Inferno is a download-only game for Wii U and P
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Garry's Mod, the oddball Source sandbox and bizarre facial expression generator, is receiving Kinect support. In a preview video posted to YouTube, Gmod's Garry Newman shows... Actually, you're better off just seeing for yourselves. Yep. Garry provided some details as to how it w
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I dove back down Hotline Miami ‘s blood-slick Slip ‘n’ Slide of utterly blissful brutality this weekend, and now it’s all I can think about. It’s a testament to the sheer refinement of its systems, I think, that it can so thoroughly hook me time and time again. But nothing is per
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There's a bit of Pinocchio in Mega Man's story, what with the kindly father figure creating a "son" out of artificial materials. And, yeah, there's some melancholy in there, too. Melancholy that digital artist Madec Brice captures in his beautiful portrait of the Blue Bomber. Ove
Read articleNo, that's not hype. Released last year on PC under the title The Next Big Thing , Hollywood Monsters is a hilarious adventure game from the creators of Runaway , and its coming to your iDevices December 6. Mobile is quickly becoming a second home to the point-and-click adventure
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As it does so very kindly like to do, id Software has released another dollop of engine source code. This latest is somewhat less exciting than many, simply offering the updated Doom 3 source from the BFG Edition but hey, now the folks at home can make the best and shiniest Doom
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People's Daily is China's newspaper of record. It's the paper of the Chinese Communist Party—a mouthpiece of the government. And today, it figured out that The Onion is not America's newspaper of record. If you've been on the internet since forever, you know that The Onion is a h
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Source Engine sandbox Garry's Mod has an adorably wonkiness to it, with every toy and machinima made in it coming out looking, well, quite a bit creepy and wrong. This dis-ease will soon grow even greater, as a coming patch will introduce Kinect support to let players control cha
Read articleI'm still coming down from the experience that was The Walking Dead . Without getting into spoiler territory, that was... quite the ending. To help cope, I've been talking to other people about their experiences, many of which seem to be similar to my own. And then Kirk goes and
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It feels like an age ago, and in gaming terms I guess it was. The launch of PlayStation Home, one of the cornerstones of the PS3's launch era, was meant to usher in a new kind of online interaction. A place where the connectivity of Xbox Live could be turned into a virtual world,
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DOOM 3 BFG: Patch Release Notes NEW FEATURES • All projectiles cast shadows • Texture LOD bias added to menu options • Added option to force v-sync (instead of “smart v-sync”) • Adjusted default brightness value • Shadow casting projectiles added to menu options • Allow setting a
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