GDC 2015 hits record attendance with 26,000

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 10, 2015

Develop GDC announced that more than 26,000 games industry professionals were in San Francisco for last week's Game Developers Conference hitting an all time record high. GDC 2015 announced some big news with Epic Games and Unreal Engine 4 becoming free to all, and Unity 5 launching. In addition Vale announced their Source 2 engine. Valve hit the virtual reality scene with HTC Vive, and Project Morpheus release some updates, and AM

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Blizzards Overwatch address female diversity

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 09, 2015

Ever since Blizzards FPS: Overwatch was announced we've been on the edge of our seats watching the awesome cinematic and arguing over who looks coolest. One issue was raised where it was observed that female characters lacked coverage of all roles. Blizzard has answered with Zarya. Announced at PAX East 2015, Zarya, is a Russian soldier who is one of "world's strongest women.": We've been hearing a lot o

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Valve announce Steam Machine details

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 06, 2015

Valve's have announced their new Steam machines, designed in taking PC gaming into the living room and will cost as little as $460 (£302). The Steam Machines have been detailed on the Steam website, and shows multiple suppliers from Alienware, Asus, Gigabyte, Origin, Zotac and more (up to 15).  Does Steam and their design of living room boxes appeal to the average gamer? Will this re-introduce living ro

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Battlefield 4 - Mega patch improvements!

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 03, 2015

DICE has released a huge mega patch today, with updates to Battlefield 4 to make the multiplayer experience stellar. Improvements to the netcode have been a welcome bit of news with new game modes, improvements to spawning, combat, health, new graphic updates and ui changes. You can check out the full blog announcment in the battlelog, where you can read all about the PC, Xbox and PS updates.    

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3DRealms is back with Bombshell

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 03, 2015

From the creators of Rise of the Triads, Duke Nukem and Max Payne, comes Bombshell, an isometric action role-playing game for PC and consoles. Bomb disposal technician turned mercenary for hire, Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison must strong-arm her way across 4 planets in an Unreal Engine-powered galactic adventure to rescue the president from an apocalyptic alien threat.  The trailer (available on youtube) reminds me of Alien

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We Happy Few, new crazy indie title.

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 27, 2015

Compulsion games have announced their title: We Happy Few, a game they've been developing since early 2014. With a very special theme and artwork the game feels freaky and I'm eager to get more information! We Happy Few will be at PAX East 2015 with a playable "build" for anyone to have a go. Check out the trailer here, its crazy, awesome and I cannot wait to get my hands on it!

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Warhammer 40,000 announce their PC MOBA

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 26, 2015

Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 is at it again, Whitebox Interactive announce their latest game devloping Warhammer 40k: Dark Nexus Arena. Stated to have the heroes such as Space Marines, Orks, and the Tau in an assortment of four vs four player battles. Other races such as the Sisters of Battle, Dark Eldar, Eldar, and Chaos Space Marines will be added in the fullness of time. It is interesting to note the four vs four bat

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GTAV Heists releasing March 10th

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 25, 2015

Rockstar Games announced two updates yesterday with a date of March 10th for Online Heists and another delay for the eagerly awaited PC version to be released April 14th. Online Heists We are excited to announce that the launch of Heists for GTA Online is scheduled for March 10th. We know it’s been a wait, and appreciate your patience. Heists will bring a brand new 4-player cooperative gameplay experience to GTA Online, giving pl

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Steam now has over 125 million active accounts

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 24, 2015

Steam released a press release with the Steam VR.  GDC 2015 will mark the 13th anniversary of Valve's first public announcement of Steam, which has since become the leading platform for PC, Mac, and Linux games and software.  In the last year, Steam added new services and features - including In-Home Streaming, Broadcasting, Music, and user created stores - as it grew to over 125 million active accounts worldwide.  S

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Updates and Fixes

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 23, 2015

Hello all, Thank you for your continued support, reports and emails about errors, bugs and features. We take everything on board and strive to build the best service for all.  We've been busy this last week fixing some glaring bugs involving: Landing page game art. Landing page graphical bugs fixed and load speed improved. Game Library now pulls games correctly. Footer layout bugs fixed. Subscription displaying incorr

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UK's first dedicated eSports arena: The Gfinity Arena revealed

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 20, 2015

Next month the UK gets its first dedicated eSports Arena at the Vue Cinema, Fulham Broadway London. Within the Vue Cinema, the Gfinity Arena hosts three custom-built stages with capacity to house over 600 gaming fanatics, offering the comfiest seats found in eSports. Get your tickets through the Vue website when they go on sale, and what a better place to take your special someone on a special date. eSports Arena to watch our f

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GamersGate celebrate 10th Anniversary

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 19, 2015

GamersGate are celebrating 10 years of trading with exclusive 48 hours deals. You can pick up Valkyria Chronicles, Company of Heroes 2, Defiance, and Tom Clancy's games for 50-75% off. We always like to see successful gaming ventures last a while, and we'd like to salute GamersGate for 10 years of -as they call it- awesomeness. Some cracking games ideal for co-op play, and some amazing rpgs.

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Grow Home patched

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 18, 2015

Grow Home has been one of those games that slips easily under your radar. You play as BUD (Botanical Utility Droid), a robot on a mission to save his home planet by harvesting the seeds of a giant alien plant. Sure, sounds a little... dry, but it's a great 3D platformer with charm, and taste. With the latest update: Some rare flora and fauna has been recently detected on the alien planet. M.O.M has a new side quest for B.U.D to inv

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New Colorblind Support in WoW Patch 6.1

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 17, 2015

World of Warcraft patch 6.1 has revealed that you’ll find a new user interface system that we’ve designed to assist players who have common visual issues related to colorblindness. In the new ‘Accessibility’ interface configuration section, you’ll be able to enable both text and color enhancements that may improve your visual experience while playing WoW. ‘Enable UI Colorblind Mode’ (which was pre

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ESL reveals biggest UK tournament for CS:GO and LoL

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 16, 2015

The ESL UK Premiership, the company's largest tournament since 2010, has been announced today for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and League of Legends players to win £12,000. The tournaments will be spread over two months of online brackets to culminate in an offline finals at London MCM Comic Con over the 22-24 May weekend, in front of an expected 110,000 spectators. The first qualifiers are scheduled to begin on 23 February. Y

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Silly Stereotypes that Surround Gamers

Posted By: Melissa - February 15, 2015

When I opened my eyes the other morning to a pounding headache and an empty bed, I was instantly in a grumpy mood. Jordan had been out of bed for a couple hours, from what I could hear, his cough was getting worse. Now, I feared I was in the virus’ sights. Thoughts of having an excuse to make chicken soup would usually at least make me a little happy, but today would be a long day with no extra bandwidth. Sitting up, my fears were confirmed

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Why Super Mario 3D World might quite possibly saved my love life.

Posted By: Lacey - February 15, 2015

My husband doesn’t get me. I’ve known this… I’m a complicated stress ball of a woman and at times a bit demanding. Like any woman I appreciate romantic gestures or thoughtful gifts. Which is why last Christmas when my husband gifted me with a Wii U I was honestly a little confused. Please don’t get me wrong I knew how great of a gift it was! But I don’t game… I should have kept my confusion to myself

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GamerDating Launch

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 15, 2015

GamerDating has launched, congratulations and welcome to GamerDating.  To get started fill in your profile to reflect you, the person behind the screen. Hang up your gaming persona, because here we are all gaming fanatics, but we are people! Once you've finished filling in your profile (and remember the more detail, the more success), search the matching system for like minded people. If you like the look of someone, get in touc

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Why you need a picture

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 15, 2015

Yes, you will need to upload a picture of real-life you. Because you are awesome. Because you are beautiful. Because real people have real faces. Because relationships happen between people, not avatars. We created GamerDating.com with one goal in mind: to help gamers find other gamers to love them in game and out. To achieve this goal, we feel it is important that our community be made up not of anonymous avatars, but the amazing

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Ian's Story Part 1 - Success of Online Dating

Posted By: Ian - February 15, 2015

Hello, My name is Ian, and happily married to my wife Anne, whom I met through online dating. If you had of asked me some five or six years ago about online dating I may have scoffed at the idea and said it was for either sleazy men and desperate old women. However, times have changed and I now believe it to be one of the best ways to meat like minded individuals and some genuinely nice people. I've never been one for night clubs and

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Gamers for Gamers: Jes and Andrew Henninger

Posted By: Melissa - November 12, 2015

Dating is not easy for anyone. Many will say that the dating game is one of the most frustrating humanity plays. It should be; if finding someone who fits our individual brand of crazy were easy, wouldn’t that mean we are actually pretty dull? It is important to remember that like any game worth playing, the dating game takes time and a considerable amount of leveling up before you are ready to face the final boss.

We want to share stories of gamers who have conquered this quest. We want to show you whilst there are no exact walk-throughs or cheat codes for relationships, these stories are real people, real gamers, and your player 2 is out there.

I met Jes on Reddit where she posted her Bioshock wedding photos (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bioshock/comments/28064k/my_bioshock_wedding_photos_are_online_enjoy/). I’m a sucker for theme weddings (have you seen our Pinterest board?) and it is obvious from the pictures that gaming is important to the couple so I had to hear their story.

"If that's not their jam, then I dunno man. Deal-breaker."

Jes and Andrew met over ten years ago in the secret forum of MC Frontalot. This was the start of the rise of social media, so naturally they connected the group through all available avenues. At the time, no one would have guessed that the seeds of a cross-country relationship were being planted. 

The dating world was looking bleak to Jes, “I dated some guys I met at gaming events, and nothing really came out of that except frustration. I just wasn't meeting anyone that fit my list of must-haves, if you will.” Starting a new chapter of her life in a house with a bunch of gamers in San Francisco, she was ready to end her self-imposed hiatus and finding a partner to game with was a necessity. 

“Being with someone who also loves games has been vital to me for a long time, especially if they are really into the culture itself. Most of my adult life has been spent in arcades or comic shops, so it's something that is just absolutely a priority to me. I attend PAX Prime annually, so if that's not their jam, then I dunno man. Deal-breaker."    

Jes and the Big Daddy

Must love games this much.

By 2011, Andrew had been on Jes’ radar for a while - they’d been internet friends for about seven years at this point. He had recently been posting cute pictures of himself to Facebook as a quiet attempt to attract her, though of course, she didn’t know who they were intended for. With him across the country in New Jersey, it didn’t even occur to her that he would consider such an attempt. She decided to learn more about him and turned to a fellow MC Frontalot forum member who had met Andrew and “after that I decided I had nothing to lose.”

“That night I messaged Andrew on Facebook. My first message to him literally said, "Sup hottay". He thought I was messing with him. But I was all about him.”

It didn’t take long for the two to realize they had a great thing going. “I felt like he was meant for me once we started dating. The way we would make a plan for exploring the [Minecraft] world together... but it just felt so real. It felt so natural to be wandering off into the unknown with him, even though it was the digital unknown, there is something super romantic about that.”

Long distance is hard, but gaming gave them a way to be together. “We started dating toward the end of the year, so when Christmas came it was hard because we were so far apart (3,000 miles!). We were really into Minecraft and shared a map for just the two of us. We had this really beautiful cave that opened into a cove and he wrote ""I <3 Jes"" so that we had to climb to the top of the mountain to read it.”

A drawing titled The Legend of Jeska

A drawing titled 'The Legend of Jeska' featuring the couple.

Through games, Jes and Andrew spent time together, learned each other’s skills and habits and grew closer as a team.  The more they played, the more they saw how complimentary they were.  “He is a really great team-player and problem-solver,” Jes said of Andrew. “I feel that even when we come up against something really hard — like bosses with multiple stages or something like that where you have to really know what you're doing — his attitude helps me to focus on solving the problem. His problem-solvingness is contagious! The best thing though? He knows how to have fun. That's always my main goal, and so we really clicked because of that from the start.”

Six months into the relationship, the pair decided that 3,000 miles was just too much and Andrew made the move from New Jersey to San Francisco. Being apart for the first six months really gave them a greater appreciation for being together in life as well as in game. "The togetherness thing is a big theme in our relationship. We love doing everything together. I enjoy taking the lead, but most of the time, I like when we are doing things together, even mundane tasks. Just the doing of things, whether it's solving a puzzle or buying groceries.”

In 2012, after about a year of being together, Jes asked Andrew to marry her. They took about a year planning their epic Bioshock themed wedding. Though some family members might have been a tiny bit confused by the hulking metal monster, the day was a huge success with even the non-gamers being drawn to the beautiful work done by the local cosplayers and everyone loving the elegant art decco feel. 

Andrew with the two cosplayers

Andrew with the two local cosplayers.

Gaming remains one of the most important things they do together.  “We try to devote one weekend day to relaxing and gaming. Maybe 3-8 hours during the week and then anywhere from a few hours to the entire weekend. MMOs, shooters, action RPGs, platformers, colony sims, just lots of different things. Whatever Minecraft and Starbound are. RimWorld, Sol 0.” 

Not only is gaming something they love and can share, but they both see the positive effects of gaming on their lives. Gaming “has really deepened my need to do things cooperatively, even in life.” Jes divulged, “but more importantly, communication is really bolstered when we play cooperative games. If we are communicating in game, it's like practice for in the real world. We get stressed out if we have to wipe a raid, but it gives us non-real situations to test ourselves. And after doing it for a few years now, I think it really shows in the way we treat each other. Andrew is the best teammate I could ask for!”

There are new adventures on the horizon which have changed their gaming habits lately. Jes admitted that recently she has been playing “lots of filthy casual tablet games like the Voodoo Whisperer. Things that don't piss off my motion sickness!” Their Player 3 will enter the game in March! 

Jes had some fantastic advice for people looking to find their perfect Player 2, ”Dating is difficult, but not impossible. It's something you have to practice at, just like any game of skill. I had my fair share of boyfriends, and I did my best to learn something from each relationship, and then bring that with me for when it was time for the next one. Basically I did my best to level up in between each relationship.

“I think gamers have a unique advantage, in that there are so many types of games to share with each other, and experiencing them together will help you learn about each other. And learning about each other is the most important thing to do when you are dating! Talk about everything and don't worry about offending your partner if you want to be a good team.”

Jes and Andrew cutting the cake

 

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