Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
Clones v1.30 New Features - Transition Queue for morphs, clone will do next task after completing current one - Morph On Click mode to emulate Lemmings-style input - New clone AI available in editor - New traps available in editor (DamageClone, KeyBind, ParticleSpawn) - Nova will
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Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning has accused EA of "sabotaging" 2005 action game Stranger's Wrath. The US game making legend blamed the Xbox exclusive's lack of sales on EA's failure to put enough money behind marketing. "Stranger was a major achievement," Lanning told Eurogamer at
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The Lord of the Rings: War in the North developer Snowblind Studios takes its weapon creating seriously in this behind-the-scenes video, and an innocent lunchtime treat gives its life for the greater good.
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The next major Civilization V patch will add a hotseat multiplayer option that will let multiple players take their turns on one PC. Community manager 2K Greg has posted on the 2K forums with news of the patch, which is set to arrive "June or possibly early July." We can probably
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Video games let us be heroes. They let us don the cape, wave the flag, put on the badge, hoist the blue lightsaber or simply face the fires of dragons to save the princess. They could let us be anyone, though. Terrorists, for example. They could let us be them. If you take your v
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VG247 have just spotted a tweet from UK member of parliament Ed Vaizey that suggests the Total War developers, Creative Assembly could be developing a new game based on the Alien films. His tweet reads: "Great visit to Creative Assembly one of UK's best developers. Now hiring for
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Wow! It’s a good day for passable games getting additional modes. Civilization V, which Alec and I both saw eye to eye about, will be getting updated with a hot seat mode within the next couple of months (hotseat being a multiplayer mode where several players take turns taking… u
Read articleHot on the heels of yesterday's batch of screenshots, a trailer has arrived for Fallout: New Vegas' second helping of DLC, Honest Hearts. The expansion sends the player to Utah's Zion National Park to battle shotgun wielding tribesmen, and is coming out next Tuesday. It's the fir
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For decades , the term "youge" (洋ゲー) or "Western game" was pejorative. In Japanese, "you" (洋) is used to denote Western things, whether that be "Western music" (洋楽) or "Western clothes" (洋服). These words are not pejorative—not like youge has been. "Even now, there have been peopl
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Updates to Dino D-Day have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Adjustments to raptor detach to fix some bugs. Pull achievement should no longer award be awarded to a raptor that suicides. Fixed s
Read articleJohn Blakely, a nine-year veteran of Sony Online Entertainment and most recently its vice president of development, has apparently left the company for casual-games behemoth Zynga. Blakely's LinkedIn resumé has him departing SOE as of last month to become general manager at Zynga
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Steel Storm: Burning Retribution is now available on Steam and is 10% off! Steel Storm: Burning Retribution is a top down action shooter with old school spirit. Control an advanced hovertank, packed with the most advanced and sophisticated weapons as you fight against extraterres
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Star Raiders is now available on Steam! Star Raiders features a fresh new take on the seminal classic, letting you engage in epic dogfights and aerial assaults against the onslaught of the evil Zylons. Prepare for epic space battles as you explore the galaxy!
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Whether this Samuel L. Jackson soundboard is live (in which case, it must have taken at least two guys) or edited in after the fact, there's little dispute over its comedic value. NSFW language throughout. Part of a series of YouTube Black Ops soundboard videos going back to the
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A Seattle-area man who lived in Europe during the Chernobyl disaster, now wary of radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear accidents traversing the Pacific, built that, the a Fallout -themed case for a Geiger counter that reports its findings automatically via Twitter. Redmond, W
Read articleUpdate Notes: • Improved Steam crash reporting • Fixed saves being lost when you quit during intro video
Read articleObsidian is busy as a beehive these days, both prepping Dungeon Siege III for a June launch and putting the final touches on Honest Hearts, the second DLC batch for Fallout: New Vegas. Honest Hearts will send players off the Mojave map and into the wilderness of Utah's Zion Natio
Read articleTo hear the creative director of this fall's Assassin's Creed Revelations put it in a recent interview with Game Informer , the next Assassin's Creed will actually merit its subtitle. Questions will be answered. What kind of questions? Read on, only if you've played Assassin's Cr
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