Posted By: Alex - December 03, 2019

Whoops, we broke the search but we've fixed it! Last month we rolled out an improvement for the backend of our search and Find a Date feature. The update fine tuned our results to produce faster results and helped tackle spammers and bots in sign up. This removed "blank" fields from Signup, to stop people from erroring out and signing up too fast and spamming others. However.... (And we don't give game devs hassle for fixi

Posted By: GamerDating - February 28, 2018

IEM Season XII - World Championship is the final StarCraft II event of IEM Season XII, as well as the first global event of WCS 2018, organized by ESL and held at the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland. Starcraft 2 has been an eSport attraction for years, since launch, and the production has increased ten-fold from those dark days of 2010. 8 years later we have a free 2 play game offering full multiplayer accessibility to all, increased casting

Posted By: GamerDating - November 15, 2017

Starcraft II goes Free-To-Play, bringing one of the best RTS games to your door. I mean, it's very likely you already have it. BUT if you do not, it is an awesome time to hop on and play.  SCII will be giving F2P access to Wings of Liberty campaign, Multiplayer, and some awesome Co-op gameplay, perfect for you game date ;) Beginning November 14, players around the world will get free access to the full award-winning Wings of L

Posted By: GamerDating - October 03, 2017

Star Wars Battlefront II Restricted Beta kicks off this week in two stages. October 4th for those who have pre-ordered the game, whether they did so online or in-store. It'll go live tomorrow, at the following times: PDT: 1am EDT: 4am BST: 9am CEST: 10am The next stage opens the beta up to everyone else, kicking off on Friday, October 6th at the same times listed above. It’ll run until 09:00 PDT (17:00 BST

Posted By: GamerDating - September 07, 2017

Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series created Stellaris, a mix of grand strategy genre with space exploration at its core. With deep strategic gameplay, masses of alien races and an awesome emergent story, the interstellar exploration as you build your empire across space is brilliant. Now after the success of the initial launch and expansion Utopia, Stellaris boasts the new AI. Ste

Posted By: GamerDating - June 21, 2017

The Steam Sale is predicted to launch this week and if it's anything like the weather so far, it's gonna be a hot one. A few pieces of evidence has predicted the Steam Sale will launch June 22, based on Steam already awarding Summer Sale cards (in games and sales) and if we look at the history we can see that Steam sales return every year in a relatively stable frequency. Based on data from the last few years, the upcoming sale da

Posted By: GamerDating - May 10, 2017

STRAFE blasted into our attention with the release of the hilarious and simply brilliant 80's style game. The trailer features some VHS film style all about STRAFE. Similar to Kung Fury the video has 80's graphics with cheesy lines and awful props. All intentionally. All brilliant. While the game, cited to be from 1997 was released this week and appeals to the early generation of gaming. It has met with criticism how the gameplay, atte

Posted By: GamerDating - May 04, 2017

Steam, today has announced changes to the gifting system on Steam.  The change has removed the old Gift to E-mail and Gift to Inventory options for the better, allowing a direct gift sending, refunding and schedules: Scheduling Gifts Is Even More Straightforward Go ahead and buy a gift months in advance and have it delivered to a friend on time, every time.   Declined Gifts Resolve The Way They Should In the old system

Posted By: GamerDating - April 19, 2017

Blizzard has hit us with a surprise Patch, Patch 1.18. The new patch has made Starcraft and Brood War now completely free complete with some compatibility fixes for Windows 8, 10, and full screen modes. Last year, Blizzard released a sneaky patch via named 1.17 which would have been the first released patch since 2009, but it never went live, nor public. Instead now, patch 1.18 has come out, the first in 8 years which makes the entire game fre

Posted By: Alexander Brown - March 28, 2017

StarCraft® Remastered has been announced, complete with video, landing page and oooh the memories came flooding back. Brood War has a special place in the hearts of the founders at GamerDating. In fact I (Alex) can remember playing hours and hours of Starcraft. It even progressed my real world knowledge as I learnt about hubs, switches and crossover cables just so I could use the Spawn installation and play some multiplayer LAN w

Posted By: GamerDating - March 10, 2017

Steam is constantly changing and, like us, adapting to the users requests and feedback. The latest update to Steam is how they are changing how review scores are calculated removing free games (promotions), gifts and free weekend reviews from the overall calculated score.  This was after feedback that friends gifted the game, with no interest in the type of genre, would review the game with a joke, or unfair judgement which would tank

Posted By: GamerDating - February 28, 2017

Last weekend marked the 1 year anniversary of the release of Stardew Valley and Eric Barone, solo developer of Stardew Valley shared his thoughts and achievements and how his life changed from working alone, quietly, to a sudden mr meeseks of the world.  Considering that I had spent the previous 4-5 years in my own little bubble, working alone, doing essentially the same thing every day… and now suddenly to be thrust into the lim

Posted By: GamerDating - February 10, 2017

South Park: The Fractured But Whole has been delayed to Ubisoft's next fiscal year. Placing release between April 2017 to March 2018. Originally pitted for release in December last year, it was delayed in September for release in the first quarter. In Ubisoft's earnings report, it was confirmed it's release is now 'scheduled for fiscal 2017-18'. The first delay back in September was accredited to the quality:

Posted By: GamerDating - January 09, 2017

Star Citizen recently released the Alpha 2.6 giving access to Star Marine, an FPS shooter module, enhanced PU and a refined Arena Commander, a ship dogfighting battles. Now Star Citizen revealed that in the Alpha 2.6 they snuck in the "Director Mode" allowing the community to create all sorts of screenshots and videos of the game. Cloud Imperium Games have now released a video, showcasing some of those screenshots and videos. Wh

Posted By: GamerDating - October 04, 2016

Stardew Valley is an open ended country life RPG. It involves you, a city character come to the countryside to build up a farm. It features energy management, weather, seasons, relationships and is much more exciting than I've made it sound. You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the

Posted By: GamerDating - September 20, 2016

The Death Star Expansion Pack takes the battle to space with a new game mode along with Chewbacca, Bossk and a collection of new weapons and powerups. Today those early DLC earns will have access, 2 weeks before everyone else, to the new DLC including space battles. “That’s no moon!” One of the deadliest weapons in the galaxy makes its debut in the Star Wars™ Battlefront™ Death Star digital expansion. Ta

Posted By: GamerDating - July 25, 2016

Starbound has been in the making for a long 5 years and we at GamerDating backed the early announcement and followed its early access releases in waves. Starbound is a 2D action, adventure, sandbox builder. Similar to Terarria and even named as it's spiritual sucessor. Starbound has come from an almost carbon copy to a self standing title.  The latest version, the launch, the big version 1.0 introduces, stories, improved planet genera

Posted By: GamerDating - June 30, 2016

System Shock was of the genre defining classic from 1994, System Shock was one of the first 3D games that took a methodical approach to exploration while revealing a story driven narrative through audio logs and messages scattered throughout the game world. It was a revolutionary step forward for the medium in a time when developers first began experimenting with interactive story telling. Personally.. I never beat the game but I did

Posted By: GamerDating - June 27, 2016

Star Citizen Alpha 2.4 is now live which introduces the persistent universe, among other things. Star Citizen is from the mind of Chris Roberts, creator of Wing Commander and Freelancer, but the most interesting thing, the game has been 100% crowd funded to the amount of $116,763,216 at the time of this article. Star Citizen has promised to bring FPS, Persistent Universe, space fight, planet exploration, bases, a story mode and huge mm

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 07, 2016

Late last night, Reddit user verynayce brought Minecraft II, a mobile app available on iOS, to the attention of the /r/gaming subreddit. This app claims to be the sequel to the wildly popular and currently first place app, Minecraft: Pocket Edition. It lists for the same price, $10.99 in the US, and is somehow all the way up at number four on the Top Charts despite a one star rating and clear reviews that say this is a scam. The app isn’

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 08, 2015

Earlier, on their Facebook, OtherSide Entertainment posted a link to a site: http://othersidetease.com/b645gt.php . Following the link takes you to a mostly black page with only an ominous count down and a glitchy animated ’s’. Of course gamers weren’t going to leave it there and a user at RPGCodex dug into the source code and posted a confirmation of what we all were hoping for: System Shock 3. System Shock and its sequel ar

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - October 29, 2015

Of course we are excited for Halloween. Sure, there is the candy the kids don’t get and the opportunity to break out a cosplay. The really exciting thing to us is that it is another excuse for Steam to have a sale. Not that any of us have the time to play all the games we have in our queue already but there are a ton of titles we have been meaning to get. We can justify a few…just a few… Here are some of the games we recomm

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 30, 2015

Today, Nintendo announced via the Nintendo America Twitter account that Super Mario Maker has sold over one million units.   The game has been on sale for just under three weeks.  Already there are more than 2.2 million created and these combined have been played over 75 million times. Great timing as Super Smash Bros. added a Super Mario Maker stage to their DLC today (3DS: $2.49, Wii U: $2.49: 3DS/W

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 01, 2015

Today on their blog, EA announced the Star Wars Battlefront Beta will be coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Origin for PC very soon.  From the Star Wars Battlefront news page:  Coming early October to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and on Origin for PC, the Star Wars Battlefront Beta* is a technical test and will feature Walker Assault on Hoth, a 40-player multiplayer battle featuring Rebels and the Empire. Walker Assault will also g

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - August 21, 2015

Nintendo is doing another “Testfire” event which gives anyone with a WiiU a chance to try out Splatoon.  Starting today, August 21st, players in North America will be able to access Splatoon’s Turf War multiplayer mode for two hours at a specified time.  The European event is open for an hour at a time, with an additional hour of playtime spread over the week.  Here is the schedule: North America   

Posted By: GamerDating Team - August 14, 2015

Looking for an opportunity to see what Star Citizen is all about but not wanting to pledge?  They have extended their Free-Fly event until the 24th, giving users the chance to fight and race any of the playable ships in the Arena Commander module by following these directions (source): 1) Go to https://robertsspaceindustries.com/promotions/gamescomflyfree2015. 2) Choose 'Enlist Now' to create a new account. 3) Once the

Posted By: Melissa - August 13, 2015

The official Nintendo YouTube channel released a 'Let's Play' video for Super Mario Maker and I feel like a little girl who has been handed the keys to her digital dream castle. Set for world wide release on September 11, 2015, Super Mario Maker gives players a blank canvas and all the familiar tools of the franchise.  Everything from goombas to koopa clown cars can be used to create levels that are playable by others all over

Posted By: Melissa - July 28, 2015

Life is Strange got a new installment, Episode 4: Darkroom.  I haven’t had a chance to play it yet  as it just came out today but have been giddily rewatching the trailer.  It isn’t often that I see a game like this, an episodic interactive graphic adventure, that I actually want to play through but the story has me intrigued.  Add time travel to about anything and I’m probably going to play or watch it. 

Posted By: Melissa - July 15, 2015

  There are some cool parts about this pre-order, it isn’t just a plushy toy or anything, you actually get access to the Legacy of the Void beta test realm.  Heads up, your achievements and progress won’t carry over to the live game.  From Battle.net: Those who pre-purchase digitally or lock in their pre-order at select retailers will also gain entry to the ongoing Legacy of the Void beta test. Pre-purchase digi

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 30, 2015

Spotify and Playstation sitting in a tree, sharing music easily. The new service will launch initially on PS4 and PS3, as well as Xperia smartphones and tablets. You’ll of course be able to listen to your favorite playlists – including existing playlists from current Spotify users as well as Spotify curated playlists – and enjoy the service on all of Spotify’s supported devices. With the added bonus of being able to

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 20, 2015

Last year EA announced they were working on Star Wars Battlefront. A year later we've got a confirmation. In an announcement EA  have shared that Star Wars Battlefront will be taking part in Star Wars™ Celebration next month in Anaheim, CA from April 16-19.   

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

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