June Rewards - The latest new games for you!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - June 11, 2021

It's June, so its time for a new wave of Subscriber Rewards - We have Chivalry 2, Necromunda: Hired Gun, GRAVEN, King of Seas, Grand Casino Tycoon and More. It's that time again! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. With every first subscription, you get to select a game, gift cards or games to bundle with your premium access. This month we've added even more

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Dating a Gamer: If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them!

Posted By: Jennifer - June 01, 2021

Dating a Gamer: If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them! How many times have you heard the phrase “my boyfriend is attached to his Xbox!” or “all my partner wants to do is play online with their friends!”? I am Jenny, and here is my story and my experience dating a Gamer. Both complaints are very familiar to me as someone who works with a lot of people in their mid-20s. While I completely understand the frustratio

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Our May Rewards for you 2021

Posted By: GamerDating Team - May 06, 2021

It's May, summer is right around the corner, so its time for a new wave of Subscriber Rewards - MotoGP 21, Evil Genius 2: World Domination, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion and Orbital Bullet. It's that time again! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. With every first subscription, you get to select a game, gift cards or games to bundle with your premium access. Th

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April Game Rewards with your first Subscription

Posted By: GamerDating Team - April 07, 2021

It's April, Spring is here, so its time for a new wave of Subscriber Rewards - We have Paradise Lost, Can't Drive This, Cartel Tycoon, Ranch Simulator and Star Dynasties. It's that time again! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. With every first subscription, you get to select a game, gift cards or games to bundle with your premium access. This month we'

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Our March Rewards for you 2021!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - March 05, 2021

    It's March, Spring it around the corner and, so its time for a new wave of Subscriber Rewards - We have Volta-X, Superliminal, Sword of the Necromancer, Elite Dangerous and More.   It's that time again! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. With every first subscription, you get to select a game, gift cards or games to bundle with y

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GTFO Review - Coop or Die

Posted By: James - February 04, 2021

GTFO.. coordinate or die. Sometimes people can mistake style for substance. It's a really simple mistake to make, you think that the shiny thing will equal some degree of approximation to what you were expecting to take away in value from the idea of the shiny thing in your head. There's loads of examples of this, like when you rewatch that kids TV series you remember so fondly as an adult only to realise that if you watched anymore

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Our 2021 New Year January Rewards for you!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - January 13, 2021

It's 2021, Happy New Year to everyone! We have a huge set of new games available to kick off the new year - Death Stranding, Planet Zoo, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Command and Conquer Remastered. It's that time again! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. With every first subscription, you get to select a game, gift cards or games to bundle with your premi

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Fort Triumph Review

Posted By: Ryan - December 16, 2020

Rarely do I enjoy physics-based gameplay so much. As 4X, tactics games go, Fort Triumph is a largely enjoyable entry to the genre. Before going into the meat of the review, I want to state something straight away: this is NOT the game for you if you’re interested in a serious, expansive game in the same vein as the XCOM series. If you’re interested in a more light-hearted, but still challenging, take on the genre, this might just b

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Our December rewards for you!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - December 02, 2020

It's December, and with the celebration cheer - We have a huge set of new games available - Secret of Mana, Jackbox Party Pack, Final Fantasy VIII, Offworld Trading Company and Train Simulator 2020 just to mention a few. It's that time again! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. With every first subscription, you get to select a game, gift cards or games to bundl

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Superliminal Review - A puzzle game with vision

Posted By: Ryan - November 09, 2020

A puzzle game with vision Superliminal is one of those rare gems: a puzzle game that doesn’t outstay its welcome and leaves its mark in the form of a lasting message. Following the grand tradition of games like Portal that slowly and, more importantly, clearly introduce game mechanics and The Stanley Parable that use narration from external sources to offer a commentary on the world around the player rather than the character, Superlimin

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Vaporum: Lockdown Review - Steampunk Dungeon Crawler

Posted By: Ryan - October 26, 2020

Dark, grimy and constricting, take a break from all of the problems of real life in this polished dungeon-crawler. All joking aside, the rather well-timed, in the UK at least, release of Vaporum: Lockdown proves there is still life in the niche dungeon-crawling genre. Eschewing the usual confines of the dungeons from which the genre gets its name, Vaporum: Lockdown is a prequel to 2017’s Vaporum and, as such, requires no previous kno

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Our October rewards for you and Prize Winners!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - October 12, 2020

It's October, so its time for a new wave of Subscriber Rewards - We have Space Engineers, Life is Strange 2, Phoenix Point, Children of Morta and More. It's that time again! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. With every first subscription, you get to select a game, gift cards or games to bundle with your premium access. This month we've added even more

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Battletoads 2020 - Hopping Mad Review

Posted By: Ryan - September 28, 2020

With a hop, skip and jump into the absurd, Battletoads is the game we need right now. And really, why wouldn’t it be? At its core, this is a very simple game and that has allowed the developers to polish it. The UI, such as it is, conveys all it needs to: remaining health, remaining ammunition and (if you are doing poorly) the respawn time. At any point, you can check the top of the screen to see how each toad is doing and, with three playab

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Our September rewards for you!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - September 03, 2020

It's September, so its time for a new wave of Subscriber Rewards - We have Fallout: New Vegas (Ultimate Edition), LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes, Little Bug, FURI, Styx: Shards of Darkness, Tabletop Simulator and more. It's that time again! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. With every first subscription, you get to select a game, gift cards or games to bundle

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Creating and Inspiring During a Pandemic: Animal Crossing New Horizons

Posted By: Jennifer - August 20, 2020

Creating and Inspiring During a Pandemic: Animal Crossing New Horizons This year has been a strange and scary one for everyone across the globe. We now find ourselves thrust into a new world of social distancing, self-isolation, washing hands and wearing masks. It has been a terrifying time no matter who you are, young or old, rich or poor. Yet gamers have had a bit of a respite with multiple games launching and into this apparently bleak land

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Maid of Sker Review - Welsh Folklore Horror!

Posted By: Ryan - August 12, 2020

A tense dive into Welsh folklore that may have crept into my ‘top games of the year’ list. It’s quite possible that the Sker Hotel should be up there with the great buildings of gaming and pop-culture. Taking cues from the Spencer Mansion and Mount Massive Asylum, Wales Interactive have crafted a detailed hotel which it is mostly a delight to explore in an effort to slowly reveal its secrets. Maid of Sker is one of those s

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Our August rewards for you!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - August 01, 2020

It's August, so its time for a new wave of Subscriber Rewards - We have Fell Seal: Arbiters Mark, Ori and the Blind Forest, Barotrauma, The Sims 4, Jedi Knight Collections and more. It's that time again! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. With every first subscription, you get to select a game, gift cards or games to bundle with your premium access. This month

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Our May rewards for you!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - May 29, 2020

Huge restock including: Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, Temtem, Borderlands 2 (GOTY), The Sims 4 and Risk of Rain 2 It's that time again! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription. With every first subscription you get to select a game, gift cards or games to bundle with your premium access. This month we've added even more games, restocked nearly all our previous choices and t

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Sentinels of Freedom Review - Superhero Xcom?

Posted By: Ryan - May 06, 2020

A superhero-themed tactics game that nails the comic book feel, for better and for worse. Right from the start, Sentinels of Freedom (named for its titular superhero team) is a treat to look at. Cell-shaded panels of static images and text take the place of animated cutscenes and the character models are vibrant and varied enough to pop from the detailed backgrounds. This is a game that embraces the comic book aesthetic that has fuelled other

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Resident Evil 3 Remake and Resistance Review - Two games, each a mirror of the other. For better or worse.

Posted By: Ryan - April 17, 2020

Two games, each a mirror of the other. For better or worse.   Make no mistake, Resident Evil is here to stay. At least, that’s what Capcom wants us to think. After a dearth of high quality, AAA survival horror games in recent years, the Resident Evil 3 (RE3) / Resident Evil: Resistance (RE:R) double-pack could not have come out at a better time.   Riding the coat-tails of last year’s excellent Resident Evil 2 rem

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5 Top Tips How To Avoid Being The Dreaded Catfish

Posted By: Silja Litvin - April 18, 2016

Do you know that feeling to meet someone really special online? When the first curiosity turns into a flutter of hope, a happy smile when your phone or computer blimps - followed by nightly facetime sessions. From there on all you do is planning a true, real-life meeting. Oh how wonderful will this person be who understands you so well, who makes you smile to yourself all day and had you develop carpal tunnel syndrome at your typing thumb. Surely, you will fall madly in love and finally be happy – sorry, I meant fall even more in love.

And finally that day comes. You prepare, you undergo beauty procedures you never thought you would do to yourself, after all, back hair is sexy, right?! And a little upper lip fluff never hurt a girl, or? But – you don’t want to take any risk. So there you are all polished and scented and in comes he/she half a foot smaller, 2 stones bigger and way more awkward then mentioned in all those hours of exchange. Of all the things running through your mind a thought pops up: respect to his/her selfie skills.

That is when you start questioning yourself: exactly how superficial are you? Would 5 inches have been OK, but the half-foot is killing you? Could you have managed overlooking one extra stone, but not two? Are sweaty palms and awkward body language really that bad? And what happened to all those butterflies? - That is the same person you saw yourself playing the keys off with ‘League of Legends’ just a few minutes ago, and now you feel so betrayed and resentful you’re going to block them on every social media site you have as well as on those you haven’t been chatting. You’ll probably change your name and move away, too.

League of Legends Annie

If that scenario made you shudder, lets crank it up a notch:

So there you are, all polished and scented and in comes he/she all shiny and pretty… Your gaze meets and then you can practically see the light in his/her eyes get snuffed out. What happened? Are you the catfish? Could it be?

If that didn’t make you shudder, here are the five top tips of how to catfish someone:

  1. Just assume that you will never meet anyone you met online in person. That way you can lie, scheme, and plot all about yourself. Make yourself a different gender/age/weight/colour. Just pray never have a true soul-to-soul connection, because then you’ll be screwed. And not in a good way.
  2. Don’t know yourself. If you never reflect on yourself, try to understand your emotions and what makes you tick you will be blissfully broadcasting who you think you are, not who you really are. That’s the best way to catfish someone with your personality. Who wants the timid cutie he/she came to love online when he/she can have the choleric Crazy in real life!?
  3. Be ashamed of yourself. You are old, fat and ugly. You can’t cook and your cat has diabetes, how could anyone love you? If you try really hard not to love or at least have an amicable platonic relationship with yourself, you will think it’s better to pretend to be someone else. And that’s awesome – people just dig being lied to by someone they let into their mental inner circle.
  4. Cultivate a narcissistic personality disorder. Being humble is sooo 2015. OK, you may not have fit into your jeans for a while (give or take a few years), and that afro has faded into a few free flowing fluffs, but that doesn’t mean you’re overweight and bald. Also, your personality is so big that you may as well be 6’2, why not say it is!? Everybody loves you, and your online romance will probably not notice that you may not be as Caribbean, but a little more English rose than you hinted.
  5. Put people on pedestals. Yeah, put ‘em way up high where the cold winds blow because that’s where you need someone to be in order to love him/her. And the higher he/she is, the less likely you are to share your flaws, ergo the real you. Other than not being able to make a deep and meaningful connection with someone you pedestaled, you will probably shock the living daylight out of him/her when meeting you in person, not being what one expected.

Following the 5 top tips can lead you to a lot of lovely situations other than catfishing your new online romance - they will help you alienate friends and get dumped by lovers. Assuming those goals were not your new year’s resolutions for 2016, I can only say: sit tight and do the exact opposite of them. It’s not easy to meet new people, make new friends or fall in love, and even the best of us are riddled with insecurities. But we can always strive to be the best version of ourselves, baldness and diabetic cat included. The more we learn to reflect upon ourselves and embrace what we think are flaws, the sooner we will meet someone who has a thing for free flowing fluffs. Because open, unapologetic acceptance of oneself is the most beautiful of all.

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