Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
PC specialists Paradox unveiled three new games at GDC yesterday. One is The Showdown Effect , which if you can make it past the intro in the trailer above unfurls into something that looks like Worms and Quake III had a tiny, split-screen baby. The basic premise is recreating ac
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Updates to the Half-Life 1 Dedicated Servers are now available. The specific changes are: - Fixed crash exploit due to a malformed customization packet
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As ridiculous as that headline sounds, think about it for a second. Yeah, there you go. According to a report on VG247 developers 2K Czech, who released one of the prettiest but also one of the most boring open-world games of all time with Mafia II , are helping Rockstar on Grand
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Magicka devs Paradox Interactive have just announced three new games. The Showdown Effect, Dungonland and RED Frontier are all on show at GDC. Paradox say "Action-packed and loaded with adventure, all three of these games will fulfill a unique need in gamers’ lives, whether it is
Read articleThe Darksiders II is now available for pre-purchase on Steam! Pre-purchase now and receive the Darksiders II “Arguls Tomb” expansion, the first DLC pack, when it becomes available after launch. Awakened by the End of Days, Death, the most feared of the legendary Four Horsemen, em
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Crysis has long been a benchmark for PC hardware, a high-octane series packed to the brim with nasty aliens and powerful graphics. So it only makes sense that developer Crytek's next project is a cartoon game for your phone. Coming this spring for iOS and Android, Fibble is a phy
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We recently reported that Mari0 , the Super Mario Brothers -meets- Portal mash-up-game, had launched. Does Mario need a Portal gun? Well, no. Not really. He managed just fine in his 1985 adventure with only basic jumps and fireballs at his disposal. He can squash goombas and resc
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The Games Developers Conference has just begun in San Francisco. Devs from every corner of the industry are congregating to talk about their craft. It’s a very exciting time. GDC is less console iteration and booth babe than E3. It's more about quiet announcements and candid indu
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The debut Assassin's Creed 3 trailer suggests that Ubisoft are planning to take Assassin's Creed to the wide open plains and forests of early America. Up until now they've relied on heavily built-up cities to support its assassins' free-running style, from the behaviour of our ne
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Today we found out that the hero of Assassin's Creed III , who calls himself Connor, was born Ratohnhaké:ton . Here at Kotaku , we consider it our duty to answer important questions like "How the hell do I pronounce Ratohnhaké:ton?" So I asked Assassin's Creed publisher Ubisoft f
Read articleHi everyone, Although our official Steam Store is not yet up, you can pre-order Krater Collector's Edition from Fatshark's own store and get access to the pre-release version of the game already today! You'll get it at a steal as well, at the moment of writing the price is only €
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Hi everyone, Although our official Steam Store is not yet up, you can pre-order Krater Collector's Edition from Fatshark's own store and get access to the pre-release version of the game already today! You'll get it at a steal as well, at the moment of writing the price is only €
Read articleTomorrow (or Friday in blighted Blighty) is Mass Effect O’Clock, and the day when we discover whether or not the purported conclusion of Shepherd’s adventures can live up to over a year of having enough marketing to make twenty Daikatanas a success fired continually at our exhaus
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How do you create characters that people care about? BioShock creator Ken Levine spends a lot of time thinking about that question. He also spends a lot of time thinking about ways to answer that question through video games, a medium that he says has yet to quite master the art
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Valve has some new screenshots for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive , the new reimagining of the popular Half-Life mod that has turned into a phenomenon over the years, selling 25 million (!) copies, according to the publisher. Counter-Strike: GO will be out this summer for Xbox
Read articleHis name is Ratohnhaké:ton, but you can call him Connor. The latest Assassin's Creed hero prowls the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC frontier on October 31, with work underway on a version for Nintendo's Wii U. It's a game so ambitious Ubisoft created an entirely new game engine
Read articleGhost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Halo: Reach lead designer Christian Allen has taken to Kickstarter to fund his resurrection of old-school, hardcore tactical shooters. He's after $200,000, and he's got until 1st April to make it. So far he's had 151 backers who've pledged a co
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What kind of setting would Revolutionary War-era America make for an Assassin's Creed game? See for yourself as the latest in a long line of professional killers does the tomahawk chop in the wintry war-torn Northeastern woods. When the setting was revealed for Assassin's Creed I
Read articleMass Effect 3 is out TOMORROW (in the US, Friday in Europe). Within a few days many Mass Effect fans will finally know how it all ends. It's the climax of a story that's taken Bioware five years to tell and the launch trailer suggests it'll deliver a finale we won't forget in a h
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