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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Moonlighter Loot and Sell - Review

Posted By: Alex - November 19, 2018

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Moonlighter is a nifty top-down rogue-like hack and slash with a twist. After each dungeon dive you return to the sleepy town of Rynoka and peddle your wares as Will, the shop owner of Moonlighter.

Will possesses a greatly sought-after pendant that allows you to go dungeon diving in one of the five randomly generated dungeons. As you explore each one, you are pitted against the need and greed of your own personal desires and profit. Dodging, rolling, stabbing, blocking and using a variety of weapons, your initial challenge is to find and collect dungeon loot and escape back to the village to sell it.

If you die, you are ported back to town and the majority of your stash is scattered across the dungeon floor, lost forever. As you go deeper into the dungeon and step into each room, you are sealed in with randomly generated enemies. You have to clear the room before you are able to continue. I often found myself full of stash wondering if I should gamble stepping into the next room – I might die and lose all my loot or I might find rare materials for advanced gear.

 

Battling monsters in your dungeon run.

 

The game has a subtle and pleasing challenge rating, with the first few tasks giving you a chance to understand the fundamental controls of combat, which don't alter much throughout the game. You can dodge and roll, which is used in combat and to traverse pits and holes; you can attack quickly or charge weapons up, as well as changing between two sets to allow you to tackle a variety of enemies.

At first you loot everything you see, collecting shards, seeds, branches and other junk loot. Moonlighter does not reward you with finished items, but reagents and ingredients to sell to the customers in the town. Over time you collect extra functions, like a hand mirror that allows you to break down items in your inventory for a severely reduced gold exchange rate.

The game also adds a unique inventory management challenge, where some items will warp and change into other items if placed in a certain pattern or adjacent to one another. This adds another element to the game and the way you manipulate your loot.

 

Inventory adds further challenges with loot that effects other loot, such as "delete to the right"

 

This dungeon diving rogue-like game is a rewarding experience, with the standard and expected enemies blasting in attack patterns and varied behaviours. Once you complete the dungeon you are teleported out for free. If you want to teleport out early (such as if you are full of loot), you can use your pendant to do so, which consumes a chunk of your gold.

When you return with your loot, you place it out on your table in the shop, set the prices and start selling. Each time a customer purchases or looks at an item, a speech bubble will appear with reactions ranging across four moods – from "outrage at a price" to "ha ha I have a bargain". That smiling, golden-eyed face is an infuriating one, as it highlights that you lost out on potential money. You can adjust and adapt the prices as each day goes by, and prices fluctuate with supply and demand.

 

Selling items in your shop requires careful monitoring of prices and reactions to make the most profit.

 

The shop management screen was surprisingly in-depth, with logs for each item, price records and descriptions. At first, I was fairly unimpressed by the shop mechanic, as I found it frustrating to start with no idea or expectation of prices, resulting in me setting prices blindly. When I started upgrading the town and investing in the re-opening of shops, the interaction with prices grew on me as I hustled my items and juggled what I'd use for myself and weapon and item upgrades, and what I'd sell to the customers of the town.

The shop is only open in the day, and after your first thief you watch all customers, judging prices, adjusting prices and looking at every customer with suspicion. As your gold stash grows you can upgrade your shop, making it hold more tables, making it wider and larger, and adding potted plants and decorations to improve its affluence. Eventually, you can hire a shopkeeper to stay in and run the shop while you constantly dungeon dive.

 

After investing in the town, I was able to get potion sellers and blacksmiths.

 

The game has a night and day cycle: sell your wares in the day and sleep or dungeon dive at night. The dungeons are empowered at night, offering a greater challenge for better loot, but you can opt to go dungeon diving in the day for an easier time. This was useful for me at the start, when I was still learning and needed a quick cash grab.

The game has a pleasing art style, which focuses on imparting an ambience and vibe with pleasant animations and smooth physics. The opening scenes and the town before and after upgrades do an incredible job of changing a sleepy, tired town into a bustling, live metropolitan city with subtle graphics and tone changes. In addition, the music is soft and enjoyable and I did not end up turning it down.

 

These are the dungeons that unlock as you progress, do you dare tackle the most deadly?

 

The controls of Moonlighter were a little challenging at first, as I struggled with the trigger buttons on my Switch, but after a few hours I had no problems. I often found myself taking the Switch out of the dock to continue playing, as I could fit in a quick dungeon or item management in quiet moments of my day. Moonlighter is the only game on the Switch so far that I have played until the battery died.

Moonlighter is continually being improved by the wizards of 11 bit studios (who are also the creators of This War of Mine, Beat Cop, Anomaly and FrostPunk): last month saw the introduction of the New Game + mode, pirate weapons, new amulets and a quick-sell mirror. The roadmap states that future developments will bring pet familiars, mini-bosses and expanded items.

Check out the trailer below for Moonlighter.

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