Come get some! 3D Realms on Steam

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - May 06, 2015

The 3D Realms Anthology is now available on Steam offering all the classic games available on PC.  The collection contains 32 revolutionary games to blast back your memories and nostalgia. Here's the list: Alien Carnage / Halloween Harry Arctic Adventure Balls of Steel Bio Menace Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold Blake Stone: Planet Strike Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure Crystal Caves Dark Ages Death Rally Duke Nuk

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Valve remove paid Mods after backlash

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - April 28, 2015

Over the last few days Steam, Valve, Gabe and the PCMR (PC MasterRace) has had a huge cultural overhaul due to the introduction to paid mods for Skyrim.  Valve have turned around and released a statement and reversed their release. We're going to remove the payment feature from the Skyrim workshop. For anyone who spent money on a mod, we'll be refunding you the complete amount. We talked to the team at Bethesda and they agree

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Elite: Dangerous Powerplay Factions announced

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - April 27, 2015

With the third bing content update, Elite: Dangerous is introducing Powerplay. In Powerplay, you can participate in an ongoing battle for interstellar conquest, you'll be able to ally yourself with any one of a number of galactic Powers, earning valuable perks, reputation bonuses and credits for your allegiance.  As a trusted ally of your chosen Power, you will be able to guide their strategy, take on special objectives t

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Total War: WARHAMMER announce trailer

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - April 23, 2015

Total War: WARHAMMER is official! Taking the series to a realm of brutal, high fantasy for the first time in its history,  After Creative Assembly who brought you the Total War Series obtained rights to the IP of warhammer last year, it was rumoured and speculated that they could turn around and release a Warhammer themed game. BOOM they've announced it in an awesome CGI. View the CGI over on Youtube here.

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Heroes of the Storm Launch Date Announced

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - April 20, 2015

Heroes of the Storm, Blizzards MOBA has just announced that Heroes officially launches on June 2, following an open beta testing period that begins on May 19. Blizzard have announced the launch with a video viewed here. Heroes of the Storm will launch with more than 30 playable Heroes, over 130 Skins, 14 steadfast mounts, and 7 dynamic Battlegrounds, each with unique challenges to overcome. Rest assured that we’ll have even more

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Hearthstone hits mobiles

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - April 16, 2015

In a recent announcement Blizzard revealed that Hearthstone® is now playable on iOS® and Android™ phones. With a new intuitive interface hand-crafted for the mobile, the experience is designed for the small screen gaming experience.  Now I can play while on the bus I guess ;) The game shares the servers of all Hearthstone as expected, so your existing tablet and PC players, and anyone who signs into thei

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Post-Apoc RPG: The Technomancer announced

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - April 13, 2015

Bound by Flame studio Spiders have announced The Technomancer a post apocalyptic rpg based on Mars during the War of Water. Developers Spiders released Mars: Wart Logs. The game boasts your usual RPG tropes including techtrees, dynamic conversation dialogue that can alter in-game events and multiple endings. There are also three different fighting styles and a dynamic weapon and armour crafting system. The Technomancer is out

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GamerDating Update Rolled out

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - April 08, 2015

GamerDating version 2.2 has been rolled out. Please don't forget to clear your cache and your pages. The main bulk of this update was clearing up all bugs you reported and bugs we found through constant trials.  Bug fixes include: Improved search Bug fixes to search which caused a crash Bug fixes to game library Bug fixes to photo cropping and upload Bug fixes to game box art Added platform icon to game keys Updat

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Launch of the WoW Token

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - April 07, 2015

The WoW Token, is a new in-game item that allows players to simply and securely exchange gold and game time between each other. You can purchase a WoW Token through the in-game Shop for real money, and then sell it on the Auction House for gold at the current market price. When a player buys a WoW Token from the Auction House for gold, the Token becomes Soulbound, and the player can then redeem it for 30 days of game time. The WoW Token wil

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Happy Easter!

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - April 05, 2015

Happy Easter from everyone at GamerDating. We having a plethora of bug fixes and updates coming and aim to get the website working quickly, with no issues and delays by the end of the month. We will be awarding free time to those who have reported our bugs, helped support the community and also announcing a period of beta testing to all members. More details to come next week. Happy Easter all, and I hope you've all found your easter

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GTA V 60fps PC Trailer released

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - April 02, 2015

Rockstars Grand Theft Auto V 60 Frames-Per-Second PC trailer has been launched today, and can be found over at Rockstar. It looks smooth, slick and is set to launch 14th April. The PC version of GTA V will also launch with more music than the console versions. Grand Theft Auto V was scheduled to release on PC in January, but was put back to March, then again pushed back to April. It's coming, and we can't be more excited.

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Spotify available on Playstation

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 30, 2015

Spotify and Playstation sitting in a tree, sharing music easily. The new service will launch initially on PS4 and PS3, as well as Xperia smartphones and tablets. You’ll of course be able to listen to your favorite playlists – including existing playlists from current Spotify users as well as Spotify curated playlists – and enjoy the service on all of Spotify’s supported devices. With the added bonus of being able to

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Pillars of Eternity

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 26, 2015

Pillars of Eternity releases in less than an hour! Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity. Capturing a sense of nostalgia, Pillars of Eternity is your oldschool top down RPG. Play as Dwarf, Elf, Orlan or more, as your typical character classes, with a rich and in depth story. Paradox Interactive

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Dyscourse launched on Steam

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 25, 2015

Dyscourse is an interactive choose-your-own adventure where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. You play as Rita, an unfortunate art school grad turned barista who is now stuck on a desert island with a crew of misfit travelers. With a "multiple choice" style prompts, that last choice you just made? It may end up being integral to your rescue or you might have just incited a riot leading to a delightfu

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Batman Arkham Knight release delayed

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 24, 2015

This year we've seen some top highly anticipated games delayed a few times, such as GTA V and now Batman Arkham Knight who have now both had two delays each. Maybe the publishers have learnt not to release half finished games? We can only hope! Batman: Arkham Knight, which is to be published by Warner Bros, has been moved from release on PS4, Xbox One and PC on June 2nd to June 23rd. “We're a developer that hates to make

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Star Wars™ Battlefront™ to Debut at Star Wars™ Celebration

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 20, 2015

Last year EA announced they were working on Star Wars Battlefront. A year later we've got a confirmation. In an announcement EA  have shared that Star Wars Battlefront will be taking part in Star Wars™ Celebration next month in Anaheim, CA from April 16-19.   

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Elder Scrolls Online is officially B2P.

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 20, 2015

Bethesda announced earlier this week that Elder Scrolls Online's mandatory subscription fee has been dropped. Now ESO will no longer require a subscription to play, with "Tamriel Unlimited" expansion you can buy once, play forever. To counter a loss of subscription revenue ESO now has an in game shop offering cosmetics and convience items. In addition to this release, new missions, pvp and pve objectives have be

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Nintendo announces its next system the Nintendo NX

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 17, 2015

During a press conference in Japan Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata mentioned new hardware, codenamed NX. Later they confirmed their announcement: As proof that Nintendo maintains strong enthusiasm for the dedicated game system business, let me confirm that Nintendo is currently developing a dedicated game platform with a brand-new concept under the development codename "NX". It is too early to elaborate on the details of this project

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Counter-Strike cracks 1 million concurrent viewers at IEM

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 16, 2015

In 2014, 250,000 concurrent viewers tuned in to the Intel Extreme Masters and people we hyped. 250,00 was no small number. This weekend over 1 million concurrent viewers watched Fnatic take this year’s IEM Katowice title over Ninjas in Pyjamas. Over 700,000 people tuned in on Twitch, while many more watched on the in-game client.  For Counter Strike such a record is something to hold proud. eSports and&nb

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Age of Wonders III: Eternal Lords

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 12, 2015

Age of Wonders III has announced its second expansion coming April 14th, introducing a brand new campaign with new player class; the Necromancer, new specialisations, new races, maps, conditions and so on. In addition Age of Wonders II Eternal Lords will be released with new Mac and Linux ports of the game. Want to check out the reveal trailer over at Youtube? What is interesting is to see a producer releasing chunky expan

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Albion Online - We came, claimed and conquered.

Posted By: Alexander Brown - February 14, 2015

We came. We claimed. We conquered. Albion Online is a Free-to-Play game in its alpha-testing stage which offers a cross-platform sandbox MMO on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. Think of it as a living world with no NPC vendors, no questlines and no NPCs to report to. Instead you, your guild and your friends decide who owns what: it is an entirely player-driven economy with full-loot hardcore PvP.

Towns, buildings and regions can all be conquered and owned by a guild. Each region owned by a guild can set the tax rate for loot, and the rising entrepreneurs who build the venues can set various taxes for friends, public and guilds when the building is used. The game is a blank canvas and the players are its painters.

World Map

The world is one large server, with multiple zones which are split into three rulesets: “safe”, where PvP cannot occur, “one skull”, where the defender gets a slight bonus against anyone attacking, and finally “three skulls”, where everyone is fair game with no bonuses to either attacker or defender. Albion Online is a game that encourages PvP, with the best resources for crafting your gear located in the full PvP (“three skulls”) zones. The game is full-loot which means if you die you lose everything you are carrying. This obviously carries huge risk but just as huge a reward, and was something my guild took advantage of many times... (thanks for the founder’s horse Hammer and Sickle!)

Kill Mail

(they got revenge)

At the launch of the winter alpha I entered the world of Albion Online with Pyran, a gaming community born from the love and passion of PvP. At the start we gathered in Kings Market, which offered cheap starter buildings, allowing us to construct gear up to tier 3. These are the only buildings owned by the “system” and tax you a flat 10% usage fee, a dev decision to help new players get into the game easier. Our goal was to gear up, earn money and conquer the land. Hundreds of other players swarmed the surrounding countryside so mobs and resources respawned slowly. The system offers limited resources with varied respawns which reflect rarity. In addition, the longer the resource of a mob is unharvested the more resources or silver it awards. Sadly, due to the heaving population, as soon as a node appeared it was harvested. This led to a few days of solid grinding to get enough resources to build gear to tackle higher tiered mobs.

seamouth

With the lust to get better resources we ventured into the PvP areas in Seamouth and found untouched resources and mobs, and we became rich. We were gods: we soon realised in the early days that people were afraid of dying and losing everything, so we capitalised and earned a pretty penny. In addition, because we were in the PvP zone we had access to higher tiered resources which gave us a small head start to the next tiers of gear.

There are no classes in the game, as the developers’  slogan reads "You are what you wear!" All the skills you learn are tied into the gear you are wearing: wear a plate metal chest piece and get a high resistance to physical damage and a taunt. Wear a cloth robe and get a resistance to magic and a mana recharge ability. Gear offers multiple spells or skills when you craft it, and the more you craft the more you unlock as you progress up the tiers. I opted to play a mage and ran about in cloth with a staff.

Going on the Hunt

Buildings come in tiers and each tier allows the user to build better and higher gear. Each time you craft something you gain fate points, which leads to unlocking the next tier.

So it goes like this. You harvest tier 2 logs from a tier 2 tree, you then process those logs into tier 2 planks, you can then use those tier 2 planks to create a tier 2 magical staff. Each step of the process awards you fame which progresses towards unlocking the next tier. You can achieve up to tier 5 in the safe zones (even though it would take an age) where 6-8 are achievable only in full PvP zones. This is due to both resources being limited and building level caps in safe zone regions.

Everything you do in the game awards you fame which links to the Destiny Board, a huge daunting grid, which tracks your character’s progression. For example: each time you use a druidic staff you are awarded points to the staff section of the grid, and eventually you unlock it which leads to more specialised requirements. Now, each time you use the druidic staff you earn fate points towards unlocking the next tier, which then unlocks the next, and so on. On the opposite side of the board you have the corresponding crafting. So each time you craft a druidic staff you are awarded fate points towards the next tier. It is quick to understand, but daunting as it is the first visual representation of the sandbox experience.


Destiny Board

Guilds, PvP and group play is important in Albion Online, as you require a guild to claim a region. Claiming a region allows you to set tax to anyone farming in the area, and it also secures you high-tier resources to allow you to craft gear. It allows a nice range of sandbox interaction between guilds, players and politics. Even though you could play Albion Online with no PvP, you’d be missing out. You would need to find your niche and develop it in a true sandbox sense.

We had one guild member focus entirely on becoming a major food supplier to a certain city with a goal to have a monopoly on farming in that area. The banks are local, the auction house is local, the trade is in person. You cannot mail items, you cannot teleport across the land, and if you die  you lose everything. The game promotes a local feel, and requires trade of goods. While playing we saw trade oxen moving up and down the roads and I even purchased goods for the cheap from one area, to sell for with a 250% mark up in another. And it worked!

What we did encounter as a small guild on our rise to power was the zerg mentality. We were wiped out by two different large alliances who steamrolled us outnumbering us 3 to 1. The devs have stated they are tackling zergs for the open world by making AOE attacks do more damage the more people they hit, and other nerfs/buffs in the same manner. While the open world can suffer from zergs, the actual claiming, conquering and battles for regions are instanced 5v5 guild versus guild arenas.

GvG

The GvG offers a fairly clever and complex system. When you claim a region you can set four times in the day for a guild to schedule an attack. It can come in either raids or conquers. The raid can reduce your defensive bonus (which recharges up to 40% in increments of 10% over time) where a conquer can remove one of your tokens. If you lose three tokens you lose the region. This system would allow a small guild like Pyran with 20–30 people to keep and hold a region against a 150-person guild. In addition any guild can have a “battle bank” in which the guild can place items that can be retrieved for the battles.

We did have complaints which may just be due to the fact that the game is still in Alpha, but it would be remiss of me to ignore them. We had no party chat (but once our guild was set up we could use guild chat). When we did die we would be respawned at the nearest city, naked and alone, forcing us to run through full PvP zones (and get ganked again) to get back to my stash. It was annoying and soul crushing to have to run so far just to get back.

Naked Respaw

The game is set to be Free-to-Play with a buy-in Alpha via founders packs which offer you gear, horses and premium currency which can speed up your initial start. The premium currency is not final, but currently you can use it to build vanity items like banners or trophies with your guild emblem upon it. It can also help pay for the upkeep of buildings and crafting fees. The cries of “pay2win” have been uttered, but Albion Online is quickly compared to games like Eve Online where you have plex: it’s a quickener, having gold can save you the time you would otherwise spend farming mobs for cash. You could have all the gold in the world but you still need to put in the time to earn fame to unlock the tiers, and as I’ve experienced on both sides, you can lose everything in one bad fight, or gain everything in one good fight!

Overall Albion Online is a unique take on the MMO genre and is slightly reminiscent of other games like early Ulitma Online, but the concept of the entire game being driven by players sets it apart from traditional MMOs. The game is in Alpha and the developers interact with the community in a friendly fashion. We had a dev join our teamspeak for 15 minutes to answer questions; the devs constantly chat in the global chat and forums; reddit and online communities feature threads where the devs answer questions, discussing decisions and interacting with the players. The game has a huge potential, and a passionate set of devs supporting it.

Dead!

The developers have given us the means to create our own world, we, the players, get to choose our fate.

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