Multiplayer Gaming: The First Date Idea You Didn’t Know You Needed

Posted By: GamerDating Team - November 22, 2024

Multiplayer Gaming: The First Date Idea You Didn’t Know You Needed First dates are often a balancing act of excitement and nerves. You want to make a good impression, avoid awkward silences, and most importantly, have fun. But let’s face it—dinner and drinks, while classic, can sometimes feel more like a job interview than a romantic spark. Enter multiplayer gaming, and if you are here, you know its good. Picture this: ins

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Level Up Your Love Life: How Gaming Can Strengthen Your Relationship

Posted By: GamerDating Team - July 30, 2024

Level Up Your Love Life: How Gaming Can Strengthen Your Relationship Gaming isn't just about high scores and epic quests; it's also a fantastic way to bond with your partner. In this article, we explore how playing games together can improve communication, teamwork, and intimacy in your relationship. Whether you're battling enemies side-by-side or solving puzzles as a duo, discover how gaming can bring you closer together and make

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Posted By: Aliena - October 31, 2023

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Posted By: GamerDating Team - June 13, 2023

Finding your Player 2 in the gaming love-verse can seem like a daunting task, but fear not! Your friends at GamerDating.com are here to help you create an engaging and authentic dating profile that showcases your unique personality, gaming preferences, and interests to attract like-minded partners. Follow our top five tips to craft the perfect gamer dating profile and embark on your quest for love: Choose a memorable profile picture.

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Resident Evil 4: Remake Review

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The best video game of a generation remade for modern audiences. Resident Evil 4 is commonly agreed to be one of the best survival horror games of all time. Originally launching in 2005, this classic action horror experience has been remastered many times, and ported to more consoles than I care to list, but it has taken until now for Capcom to fully remake it. I’ve never played the original beyond its opening few hours, so I approached

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Our games for March are classics

Posted By: GamerDating Team - March 06, 2023

March, the month of might warriors, fantastic games, and bunnies? As we move into spring, embrace new chances, reach out to those 1up'd matches and arrange some game dates. To help, this month we are topping up the most popular games we have available for you as well as highlighting some new ones. We offer games every month with our 2 and 4-month subscriptions. Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. A subs

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Posted By: GamerDating Team - February 01, 2023

Love is in the Air, its Gaming Time xoxo Valentines day is coming, but what to get your loved ones? Game dates, valentines day gifts or simply that beautiful gift to yourself. This month, we are offering even more games with your subscription so 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. A subscription

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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“Press F to Kick Door” - Door Kickers: Action Squad Review

Posted By: Craig - May 24, 2019

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Door Kickers: Action Squad is what I imagine life would be like as an actual SWAT officer, only with less respawns and not in 2D side scrolling pixel art.

 

I want to begin by prefacing that I adore 80s action movies, with the bullets flying, blood splattering and explosions…exploding. So you can understand why I relished the opportunity to review Door Kickers for the site. I watched the trailer and it ticked a lot of boxes for me and my gaming preferences; cheesy 80s nostalgia, check. Cool retro pixel art style, check. Simple interface and a pick up and play approach, check.

This seemed like a very “me” game.

So why don’t I love it?

Don’t get me wrong, I have enjoyed my time with this game, I do like it, but all the pieces should be there for it to go beyond just liking it.

 

“Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Door Kickers: Action Squad is a Christmas game”

 

Let’s start with the looks and sounds. I adore the renaissance of 2D pixel art games that we are seeing on the market these days. My first gaming experience was my brother’s hand-me-down ZX Spectrum + 2 complete with its own tape deck for the games and a whopping 128k of memory! Pixels are my jam.

Door Kickers is one of the latest in a long line of games to keep that soul of old school gaming alive, with its blocky sprites and its exaggerated blood splatters lovingly and liberally gushed across the walls and floors with each kill.

The music of this game is just ugh, *chef kiss*, splendid. It is straight out of the 80s movies that I love so much. Wailing guitar riffs, synthesised drums, and the voice and guns are crisp whilst still having just a muffle of softening on them to emulate that old school gaming vibe.

The HUD is a simple layout, your health, ammo, equipment etc. down at the bottom left, with a special action bar at the top left that gradually fills the more kills and hostage rescues you get, giving you access to power ups or your ultimate ability.

 

Gameplay-wise, again, very smooth and simple controls as the default, R for reload, S for shoot, E for equipment, F for...melee (ok so that starts with M), Left ALT for secondary fire (you’re just being silly now, Game. Left ALT isn’t even a letter!)

The premise is simple too, explore the level, kill the bad guys, rescue the hostages. Sometimes, the hostage are injured cops who will then stick around and shoot bad guys too, which is super useful.

 

“That room beneath is about to get painted red…”

 

However. This is also where the game let me down in some ways.

There is very little in the way of tutorials in this game, so it is very much a figure it out yourself sort of experience other than a quick “push this button to shoot”. It doesn’t even tell you what the jump button is. I had to go into the settings to look at the key bindings just to figure out how to jump. And even then, only through past experiences of games like this did I even think that pressing jump while crouching would get me to a lower platform. The game did not at any point tell me that.

Also, the difficulty doesn’t so much as spike, rather punch you in the face with a lead filled glove from the second level.

I like difficult games. I eat, sleep and breathe Dark Souls. So when I say this game gave me a hard time, that is no small statement.

 

I can’t comment on the co-op because, well, I have no friends to play Local co-op with and every time I tried to get into a game of the online co-op I was staring at this for 20 minutes:

 

 

I’m sure there are players out there playing this online, but apparently not when I was trying to. Though I’m sure a second player might make the difficulty of this game a little more manageable, two heads being better than one and all that, plus working out the interesting synergies between the different characters.

 

There is a mode in this game called the Infinity Tower which, as you might guess, is an infinite run to see how long you can last in a procedurally generated building climb.

One room. I died, repeatedly, in the first room.

Now, in my defence, I tried this mode at a very low level with my character (and we’ll get on to those in just a second) so I was horribly underpowered and came across bad guys with weapons I hadn’t even seen in the main game so far, so I’ll give that a pass, but even still, the main game itself ramps up horrifically. One false move and you’re either dead, or you’ve accidentally killed a hostage or two so kiss that perfect 3 star level rating goodbye (and you use these stars to buy better equipment, so you kinda want those perfect scores).

 

So, the characters. I went into this game knowing that there were multiple characters, each with their own unique weapons, skills and playstyles.

Does the game tell you how to change your character or equipment? No!

I spent hours going through the main mode with the basic Assaulter character, with his basic weapon and no upgrades or equipment until I accidentally figured out that I could use the arrow keys on the character select screen before a mission. Again, this could have been easily fixed with a simple text box in a corner or something.

Plus, there is a cover mechanic in this game. Does the game tell you this? No. How did I learn this? When I eventually figured out how to level up my skills and Assaulter has a skill that gives him lower recoil while in cover. Cover, it turns out, is the slightly glowing crates, barrels and furniture in the levels, which you need to be practically inside of before you crouch for it to register you’re in the cover.

 

By this point, some hours in, I was already levelled in the early teens with my Assaulter, so I begrudged going back and trying different characters but did so to give them a try and see if I preferred any of their abilities better than Assaulter’s Aimed Shot which, to be honest, I never used.

Two characters stood out to me in particular.

Shield is a lot of fun. As her name suggests, she has a massive shield and a pistol. She can take a metric ton of gunfire before her shield breaks, but is weak against melee attacks. She’s great. I love her. I’d have loved to have played her from the beginning!

Then there’s Breacher. Now. Breacher is a lot of fun. Breacher has a shotgun, which is great for clearing out rooms of bad guys. But, you know what’s not great for hostage situations? Spread weapons. Hoo boy did I accidentally kill a lot of hostages while playing as Breacher…

 

“A shotgun to make even George Ezra proud.”

 

Special mention to Agent Fergie who is a no nonsense FBI Agent who takes no crap. She has the ultimate ability of…another gun! That’s right. She pulls out a second pistol and goes all guns blazing, pistols akimbo for a while and it is adrenaline fuelled hilarity!

 

Door Kickers is a fun game. As I said at the start, I do want to stress that, please do not misunderstand me. But, I do think that there is a lot that the developers could include just bring that little bit of extra polish to it. While not a buggy game at all (in my entire play time, I have encountered zero bugs or errors) I feel it could just use a little bit more insight as to how things are done, to make the game that bit more accessible, more tooltips or heads up tutorials or something, because there is far too much in this game that you are left as a player to figure out for yourself.

 

Door Kickers: Action Squad is available on Steam at the moment for $13.99 and this feels like a good price for what you do get. It is an easy game to drop in and out of. It does have a large difficulty curve, but that is what I found brought me back after rage quitting a session; the urge to beat a level that was giving me trouble previously. This is how I approach hard games. I take breaks, I come back refreshed, I learn. It works with Dark Souls and it works here too… sometimes.

Overall, it is a solid game, it is a heartfelt head nod to 80s action nostalgia and it does get your blood pumping and it does satisfy that tactical itch.

Issues aside, I do like this game, a lot. But I just can’t love it.

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