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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Updates to come

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 14, 2015

Hello, Welcome to our first version of GamerDating, we have loads of updates, changes and new features to add as we progress.  We will be fixing and updating any bugs, issues and features daily. During your time if you encounter any bugs, please provide as much information as possible with screenshots. Every bug you report which leads to a fix you can earn free membership and time on your account because we know communities grow

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Subscription Rewards

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 14, 2015

Online dating can often be a long, daunting quest and we want to reward you for your valor. We are gamers, we LOVE games so we figured we could offer games for free in our paid subscriptions. This can do two things: Share and offer our favorite games Support and promote indie games, devs and spread beta access Regrettably the majority of offered games are for the PC, due to the nature of online keys.  We are always looking fo

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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 co

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Mortal Kombat X will take more realistic approach to female form

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 14, 2015

Female characters in Mortal Kombat X will be more realistically proportioned than in previous games.   "The mantra for this game has always been realism, heading towards a more realistic look," production manager Spiro Anagnostakos said, as reported by GameSpot. "So the same thing applies to the proportions where we try to bring things back in per se to where they should be." It is nice to see some positive actio

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Apple Promoting “Great Games with No In-App Purchases” on App Store Front Page

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 14, 2015

Apple has started promoting games that don't have any In-App Purchases on the front page of the App Store. Currently featured in the UK App Store, the section is called 'Pay Once & Play' and it showcases “great games” that don't require users to pay for extra content through IAPs.   It’s been a long time coming for Apps to provide the old fashion, and simple “here is a game, now play it&rdquo

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Settlers in Space! The Colonists - Review

Posted By: Dan - October 24, 2018

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Excuse the title, but as an old fan of The Settlers series, right back to The Settlers 2, I was excited for the opportunity to review The Colonists.

As the name suggests, the game focuses around a group of colonists and building up their settlement from scratch, but with a twist; The "Colonists" themselves are all tiny robots with their own names, unique functions and adorable little computer screen faces, created to simulate human needs and behaviours, however they grow tired of their human creators and blast off into space to make a life for themselves on a distant planet. That's where you come in (as usual - ed) as their omnipresent guiding hand.



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Curses They built a watchtower along an undefended border capturing my mothership. Game over


When you start the game the colony ship lands on the planet with the door opening to reveal a curious bot looking outside. They will then perform a short dance of joy (AI are a funny lot... - ed), the steps of the ship descend and you're ready to go. The game eases you in with a step by step tutorial in order to get the most basic functions of your colony up and running. You start by building a lumberjack hut, followed by a residence, a well and some form of food production from which the industrious little bots will create batteries to power themselves. The batteries are apparently created from combining food and water.

 

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A new colony begins to take shape as the basic essentials are put in place


It soon becomes apparent that the bots want more from life than simple sustenance and you press on to your next location for colonisation with the bots deciding to build a monument to celebrate. The responsibility of gathering the natural resources to build such a monument of course falls to you. The bots will need iron. But first they will need stone, they will need workshops to research the technology required for the construction of the monument and a number of other basics that would normally be an essential to human civilization.



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A watchtower opens fire on the enemy with freshly manufactured arrows


The interface is simple to use. In some case perhaps even a little too simple (I've taken myself back to the main menu several times by accidentally clicking the 'main menu' as there is no 'are you sure?' message). The icons and menus are all relatively clearly marked, though there has been a little head scratching in some cases as to what exactly each menu symbol is, and I have simply memorised them due to the requirement to keep going back and checking things, such as production and colony requirements as well as help and advice. For a beginner, the game does offer an abundance of advice early on, telling you exactly what you should be doing with your colony to meet the mission objectives. The game seems to utilise several graphs and percentages to keep the player updated as to the overall productivity and requirements of the colony. Personally I have never been very good at reading graphs so these are of little help to me, though I can fully appreciate their utility.



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Workshops are essential to researching technological advances for your colony but make sure the techbot has batteries and resources or she ll fall asleep


The game is aesthetically pleasing in a clean, smooth way, and the screen at no point feels crowded even when the colony starts increasing in size. Nor does it feel sparse, and overly simplified The graphics are smooth and should be easily accommodated even by  ageing or lower end PCs. The soundtrack as well as the graphical style I find to be very reminiscent of something you might play on a Nintendo Wii. The music certainly bears a resemblance to the Wii menu screen in the tones you can hear. Overall, this gives the game a relaxing feel. If you've been hammering away at a fast paced action shooter recently, and you want to kick back with something far more chilled, then I don't think games come much more chilled than The Colonists. On the other hand, I couldn't help notice that there are inventory slots in your colony ship's(warehouse) hold for arrows and cannon balls. And I get the feeling there's a good reason that the guard towers you use to expand your borders (A la early settlers titles) have hit points. I pressed on to find out what could possibly want to threaten these adorable little robots simply looking for a peaceful new life.



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Advisor menus clearly indicate the best steps to take towards making your colony a success


In the third mission, I was told 'There are familiar faces around and we should expand quickly'. The mission brief had stated there would be some combat. Moving to build my colony quickly and get things flowing as fast as possible I quickly built watchtowers to expand my territorial borders. It wasn't long before I discovered another colony to the north of fairly identical robots with the exception they had red trimmings as opposed to the blue trimmings of my own colonists. I was a little disappointed. I had hoped for perhaps indigenous creatures or possibly humans looking to reclaim their 'property' to fight.



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Turns out we re not alone on this planet. The expansion of territory from a friendly watchtower forces the enemy s borders back destroying buildings on the way


I had noticed in the previous mission in the research panel that it was possible to upgrade your watchtowers to shoot arrows, or cannon balls. This can take a while in game and as such neither your won or your enemy's watch towers can take any form of offensive action. Early game combat becomes a game of territorial push and shove. Since you can only build watchtowers at the edge of your territory, the trick seems to be to build as many watch towers close to the edge of your territory closest to the enemy as possible, filling any gaps in the sides and surrounding them. If they have no watch tower close to their border at the point you build your own, then the expansion of your territory caused by your  watch tower will destroy any enemy buildings in the vicinity. This can lead to a... faintly interesting game of push and shove and resource denial but the interest stops there. After you and your enemy have built so many watchtowers that you cannot push each other's borders back any further, it then seems to be an arms race to see who can get their towers to a level where they can fire arrows or cannon balls at each other.



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A fisherbot provides fish to be converted to batteries for your industrious worker bots


There is a depth and nuance to this style of combat I can tell, and it matches the relatively sedate feel of the game itself yet there is an underlying urgency. Not the same sort of urgency one might feel playing say Total War: Warhammer where you might be rushing an army to intercept an enemy force about to sack one of your towns. This boils down to positioning your watchtowers and running your economy more efficiently than your opponent, it's a simple as that and it does work. It's not a particularly exciting combat system, but  I don't think that was the intention, and a faster, more adrenaline fuelled style of combat would seem incongruous in this otherwise chilled, pleasing game.



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The happy bots celebrate their success on Terra Firma with a monument. To themselves of course
 

If, like me you're old enough to remember the early entries in The Settlers series then you will instantly notice in The Colonists the striking similarities to The Settlers. Notably The Settlers 2. The mothership acting as a headquarters that is the beating heart of the settlement, the system of connecting buildings via roads, which are then used by workers to carry goods and produce around the colony, the system of using military buildings to expand territory whilst denying it to opponents and most of all the relaxed, comfy atmosphere the game exudes.  I wouldn't insult the developers by saying that The Colonists is The Settlers 2 reskinned, but I will say that they have taken the core mechanics of what many may consider to be an obsolete system of real time strategy and given it a thorough dusting off with ample application of spit and polish and brought it forward into a game that can quite comfortably considered a 2018 game. If you loved The Settlers 2 then you will love The Colonists. In a gaming world of high octane shoot 'em ups, gore splattered medieval battlefields, and highly competitive multiplayer games, The Colonists is a breath of warm, fuzzy life into modern strategy gaming.


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