Sure thing. From the looks of it, you have a tab delimited file. Let's assume that gamename is the primary key on the database table. You could do something like this: 
my @row;
my $select = $dbh->prepare( '
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM games where gamename=?
' );
my $insert = $dbh->prepare( '
INSERT INTO games (gamename, gamedesc, gamecounter) VALUES (?, ?, ?)
' );
my $update = $dbh->prepare( '
UPDATE games SET gamedesc=? where gamename=?
' );

open (FILE, "<../data/games/descriptions.txt") or die $!;
    while (<FILE>) {
        chomp;

        my ($gamename, $gamedesc) = split /\t/;
        $select->execute($gamename);
        my $count;
        while( my $ref = $select-> fetchrow_arrayref() ) {
            $count = $ref->[0];
        }
        if( $count == 0 ) { #a new game
            $insert->execute( $gamename, $gamedesc, 0 );
        }
        else {
            $update->execute( $gamedesc, $gamename );
        }
    }
close (FILE);

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I'm sure that there are cooler ways to do it, but this one's pretty transparent.

thor

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