December Rewards and its Holiday time! So we've restocked!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - December 19, 2022

GamerDating's December Rewards! It's the holiday season, a time for relaxation, spending time with loved ones, and gift-giving. For many of us, it's also a time to get back into our favorite hobbies, like gaming. This year, we've restocked and added some exciting new titles to our collection. Whether you're looking for the latest releases or classic hits, we have something for every gamer to enjo This month, we are offering even more games

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Frozen Flame – a Survival RPG that needs a little thawing out

Posted By: Elena Walker - December 12, 2022

Frozen Flame is a multiplayer survival fantasy RPG, in a world once governed by Dragons and is now in the aftermath of what appears to be a post-apocalyptic world. It was released in its Early Access form on the 25th of November by fresh-faced developers Dreamside Interactive. I’ll be honest – my first impression was that the game looked generic. The style was immediately reminiscent of the many aesthetic copycats of cartoony an

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November includes Core Keeper, Golf with your Friends and Moving with your subs

Posted By: GamerDating Team - November 01, 2022

GamerDating's November Rewards! It's November! Christmas is coming, games are flowing, and its time to plan your gifts! We aim to keep the subscription cost down, while we can offer indie games or popular titles so that you can game, whilst we find you a match. We offer games every month with our 2 and 4-month subscriptions. Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. Subscription grants you the ability to read

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Fueled up a chaotic couch co-op reviewed

Posted By: Ryan - October 28, 2022

Space-borne chaos or a shiny re-tread of old ground? Couch co-op party games are a small, but still popular, genre. As evidenced by games like Overcooked and Moving Out, there’s a need for one-to-four-player games that rely on communication, a willingness to make mistakes, and an almost sadistic urge to test the strength of friendships. Make no mistake, much like its chaotic forebears, Fueled Up will also put your relationships to the

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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Closed Beta Preview

Posted By: Dan and Team - October 19, 2022

This weekend October 14th to 16th our team had the privilege to try Fatshark's closed BETA of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. We gathered together, jumped into Discord in varied group sizes and chugged through the delights of Darktide. You can play with any variation of your custom characters, a refreshing step away from Vermintide.   The Poundshop Paladin, WoodTier, Farske and Zahur gathered together to dip their toes i

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Games while you date! Imp of the Sun, Potioncraft, Spirit of the Island now available

Posted By: GamerDating Team - October 06, 2022

GamerDating's October Rewards! It's October, autumn is here, winter is coming and the new games are flowing! It's the time of year where curled up on the sofa, with hot chocolate and gaming all evening is ideal. We aim to keep the subscription cost down, while we can offer indie games or popular titles so that you can game, whilst we find you a match. Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. We offer 2 or 4-

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Pokemon Killer Temtem? Ryan Reviews

Posted By: Ryan - September 26, 2022

TemTem - Pokemon killer? An indie, monster-taming MMO with PvP built into its foundation, and a full PvE story, was always going to be a sure bet for fans of the Pokémon franchise. Temtem goes out of its way to emphasise how much of its gameplay experience is focused around competitive play, so much so that it’s nigh impossible to escape, but, if PvP isn’t your thing, all is not lost! I’m not a huge fan of PvP in m

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Smooth Summer Update to make your experience better.

Posted By: GamerDating Team - August 22, 2022

Say hello to our summer fresh update!  In this update, we focused on some quality of life updates, better email interactions, improved performance and bugfixes. Our last big update was earlier this year when we updated messaging with the use of emojis, gif support, improved updates and optimisation. Now we have introduced a new notifications sidebar, improved email notifications and new anti spammer/bot measures to make your experie

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South of the Circle Preview

Posted By: Ryan - August 15, 2022

A narrative experience about the power of regret. Emotional, story-driven games like South of the Circle (SotC) are not, for better or worse, everyone’s cup of tea. Originally released in 2021 for Apple Arcade, it was developed by State of Play, published by 11 Bit Studios, and is a compelling story of ambition and love set around the Cold War. I played SotC on the Nintendo Switch to write this review and was pleasantly surprised by w

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Overcooked! Our sous-chef reviews a top coop.

Posted By: Will Smith-Parsons - August 01, 2022

Overcooked: All the fun of watching your kitchen burn down, none of the messy clean-up. Overcooked! is a top-down, high-pressure cook-em-up that pits aspiring chefs against the clock and a series of strange circumstances to prepare ingredients and cook dishes to the satisfaction of hungry customers. After each level, players receive a score and a number of stars based on how many orders were completed, how many were missed, and how many wer

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Tails of Iron, House Flipper, Foxhole and Overcooked! 2 added for August subscriptions

Posted By: Alex - July 29, 2022

GamerDating's August Rewards! It's August! The perfect time for some game dates, followed by nice walks in the evening. Our goal is to keep subscription at a low cost, offer unusual indie games or popular titles so that you can game, whilst we find you a match. Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. We offer 2 or 4-month subscriptions which allow you to read and send messages to any user, your messages allow

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Gloomhaven, Kitaria Fables, Farm Together, and Tavern Master now available with subscription

Posted By: Alex - July 01, 2022

GamerDating's July Rewards! As we roll into July, the peak of the summer season, and we have new games for our subscriptions. Our mission is to keep subscription at a cost low, offer popular or unusual games so that you can start gaming whilst we find you a match! Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. We offer 2 or 4-month subscriptions which allow you to read and send messages to any user, your messages all

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Wingspan, Cuphead, Children of Morta and Outriders available in our June subscription.

Posted By: Alex - June 02, 2022

GamerDating's June Rewards! It's June, new game time! Available for new subscriptions, we have limited stock, so first come, first served. Our goal is to keep subscription cost low, and always offer new games so you can find a match, start chatting and play a game with your date, preferably one of those new ones you've just got! Our full list of games is now available on our static page which we'll update each month. We offer 2 or 4-

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Games available in our packages

Posted By: GamerDating Team - June 01, 2022

Our gaming offers bundled in with our packages Check out our entire list of new games added and available. Our games we offer are separated between two options of subscription to GamerDating, a gold option and a silver option. Remember you can choose two silver games for the gold option instead of just one gold game if you'd prefer. Each month we add new games, restock and seek out the unusual games for those game dates and couples da

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10 Reasons to Date a Gamer

Posted By: Alex - April 13, 2022

10 Reasons to Date a Gamer There are many benefits to dating a gamer, be you a gamer yourself, or an open minded non-gamer who is looking to support their partner or perhaps even become a gamer. It is also not uncommon for couples with a gamer in the mix to convert the other and introduce them to what it’s like to date a gamer. We reached out and asked some of our successful couples to give a list of reasons why it is good to date a g

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April Rewards - Easter new games for your subscription!

Posted By: Alex - April 05, 2022

GamerDating's April Rewards! Spring Bunnies and Happy Hearts. It is the month of new love, relationships and the blossoming of true love. Love, date, game. Each week we add more new games that are available with your first subscription, and each month we update that selection. We keep our subscription cost low, and at the same time offer you games with your first month so you can play. So get gaming, get matching and find your ideal part

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March Rewards - It's spring and we have new games!

Posted By: Alex - March 09, 2022

GamerDating's Spring March Rewards! It's spring, everyones talking about Elden Ring, and it's time to give them a ring!. Sorry, I couldn't resist. The rhymes flowed, and I was on the road to overload .. and... and... and it's time to, just get on with this update so you can go on a Game Date. Each week we add more new games that are available with your first subscription, and each month we update that selection. We keep our subscription

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Valentines February Rewards - Latest games for you!

Posted By: Alex - February 16, 2022

  GamerDating's Valentines February Rewards!   Happy Valentines Day, and if you are here, maybe you have yet to reach out and connect with your potential special co-op gamer. Well reach out now! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. This month we've added a selection of new games, but also a selection of ideal co-op games or games to have

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Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall - Swing and a Miss

Posted By: Alex - February 16, 2022

Swing and a miss, but literally. Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall is a VR-exclusive action-adventure game. A game that I was super excited about, because who doesn't enjoy being a Stormcast Eternal! When the combat worked, it felt great, but the game didn't support that! I was super stoked for this, as a fan of all things Warhammer I leapt into the game with excitement, looking forward to playing a skilled Lord-Arcanum of

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Pupperazzi, cute game of dog photography

Posted By: Ryan - January 26, 2022

A wholesome, casual video game for lovers of dogs and photography everywhere. This review was written based on my experiences playing the Xbox Game Pass version on an Xbox One X. Pupperazzi has a simple premise: take pictures of adorable dogs. That’s it. There’s no overarching story, there’s barely any lore to speak of, and that’s okay. The world has been a dark place in the past few years and sometimes it’s ni

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GameCraft: Self Screen-Printed Pillows

Posted By: Melissa - July 18, 2015

Hi Gamers!

Recently, Jordan and I moved into a new house without roommates.  It is kind of strange having a quiet house where the only messes are our own.  We are determined to make our house somewhere my parents will visit and lets be real, I want them to be impressed.  To me, it is about the little touches, details, that make all the difference.  Right out of college, when I was cardboard box furniture poor, I learned that adding a few little things, such as self screen printed pillows, can turn a lack-luster room into a cool space.

Since we have been moving, I haven’t been able to craft.  My supply totes are stacked in the basement I still haven’t gotten to, the room I get for my sewing machine and such still has boxes FULL of books in need of bookshelves and is the current spot for Jordan’s guitar collection until we can find the wall mounts.  So, not really conducive to my crafting addiction.  Lucky for me, I have Minecraft on my laptop, which does help to come extent.  There is really no substitute for starting with a pile of supplies and ending with something everyone says “oh I love that, where did you find it?” to all the time.  

The other night we were sitting on the couch playing Diablo III as we tend to do at the end of long days and found ourselves in a conversation about how much we disliked the throw pillows that came with our second hand couch.  The fabric is fine but it was obviously placed in a room where it didn’t see too many bums and the pillows have been squished by gravity as if they too had not moved since the purchase of the couch.  We needed new throw pillows.  An investment into our spines while playing long sessions.  Obviously, this needed to happen the next day.

This was a really easy and relatively inexpensive craft.  I made a few things harder on myself, which you will see later, but even those steps were not difficult.  

Supplies for Self Screen-Printed Pillows

You will need:

Pillow innards

Pillow case

Fabric or Multisurface paint OR Fabric Medium and any kind of paint (to directions)

Sponge paint brush

Freezer paper - find in grocery store near aluminum foil

Exacto knife

Cardboard

Sharpie 

Tape

Iron

I made Lacey (my best friend.  I talk about her a lot, you can read her first article for GD about a WiiU saving her marriage here) a big thank you dinner and we were off to the craft store and Ikea.  I was totally lazy on this project - there was no way I was digging through the several boxes I so smartly labeled “Craft Supplies” to find my thread and closures so Ikea’s $7 pillow and $4-7 cases were perfect.  This was so easy, I’ll likely do it again, next time with my own fabric.

It took us a little while to find the Fabric Medium - by the time we spotted it I had already found multi-surface paint for a pretty good deal.  The blog I got this idea from, Our Nerd Home, specifically uses the Fabric Medium which is a substance that mixes with listed paints to make them work better on fabric.  I didn’t try it this time, but if you go over to their post you can see their results.  Theirs look awesome - they did a Batman!

Make the stencil

Freezer paper is pretty awesome stuff - I almost never use it for freezing things.  I’ve been told that some printers are happy to print directly on it, but as I only have a cool photo printer my dad gave me, I decided not to try.  The people at Our Nerd Home provided a great Ledgend of Zelda stencil, I found a Sonic silhouette and a 1up mushroom which I sent to my iPad, my preferred tracing surface.

My preferred stencil method

Trace the image on to the NON waxy side and tape finished drawing on a piece of cardboard.

Cut out using the Exacto knife.

Ready to cut out

If you haven’t ironed your pillow cases yet, don’t forget to!  My mom always told me that the most visible difference between home made and professionally made is in the ironing.  I used to think she was just being a perfectionist, but after years of making costumes and seeing the difference when I took the time to iron my seams open I now pass that tidbit on to anyone who will listen.

Lay the stencil, waxy side down, where you want it on your pillow.  I found that it helped to add the cardboard backing at this point instead of just before the painting.  Iron on medium heat, though you might need to adjust that for your iron.  Mine is as cheap as they come and it took me a few tries to get it hot enough.  On the other side of things, Our Nerd Home warned of burning the paper - I’m guessing this is a delicate game one must play.

Iron carefully, waxy side down

Once the wax has the paper sticking to the fabric, simply fill in with your choice of color.  I tried two methods to paint spreading: the traditional brush to canvas and spackling (which could be the wrong word for it, I swear that is what we called it in scene painting class) where you repeatedly dab from a 90 degree angle.  They both worked just fine but the spackling definitely got the paint down into the fabric better and made for cleaner lines around the edges.  In the end I used more spackling than swiping.

Fill from the edges, in.

Here is the part I hate.  Drying.  Now we wait for at least an hour.

If you are feeling a bit adventurous, you can use more than one layer.  My mushroom obviously needed it’s characteristic spots and Sonic needed eyes, so I laid out the necessary pieces and weighted them down with quarters since I didn’t want to risk ironing the paper on the new paint.

Adding weight to the second layer of color's stencil

DONE.  So incredibly easy.  Give it a try and let us know how it goes! Email a couple process photos and one of your finished work and we’ll show off your skills to other GamerDating members.  

 

Our finished pillows

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